Research Vincent Van Averbeke

Abstract

Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of hospital-acquired infections with mortality rates reaching higher than 33%. One in 3 patients receiving mechanical ventilation develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Despite this high incidence and mortality, the disease pathogenesis of ventilator-associated pneumonia remains poorly understood. Recent work in our laboratory has revealed an immunosuppressive role of mechanical ventilation in causation of ventilator-associated pneumonia, and would be further studied in this project.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Kumar-Singh Samir
• Fellow: Van Averbeke Vincent

Research team(s)

• Laboratory of cell biology and histology

Project type(s)

• Research Project