Awards / Grants / Fellowships

2007

ESPEN Best abstracts

S.M. Schneider (France): "Effects of age, malnutrition and refeeding on the expression and

secretion of ghrelin"

A. Amiot (France): "Characteristics of home parenteral nutrition weaning in short bowel patients: a

review of 308 patients in a single tertiary care centre"

O. Rooyackers (Sweden): "Molecular regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle of

septic patients"

2006

Young Investigator Awards

C. Moinard (France): "Citrulline: a new therapeutic agent in nutrition field "

C. Guillet (Sweden): " Degradation of individual muscle proteins during cachexia in humans"

B. Mittendorfer (USA): "Sexual dimorphism in human lipid metabolism"

2005

Young Investigator Awards

P. Wischmeyer (USA): "Mechanisms of glutamine's protection against experimental and clinical

critical illness: role of heat shock protein expression"

M. Coëffier (France): "Glutamine, inflammatory response and protein metabolism in human gut"

Y. Viesser (The Netherlands): Post-operative arginine metabolism is disturbed in cachectic and

non-cachectic tumor-bearing mice

A. Zangarelli (France): "Energy restriction preserves skeletal muscle mass and strength in old rats:

a mitochondria-mediated process"

Abbott Research Fellowship

J.J. Carrero-Roig (Sweden): "The Effect of End-stage Renal Disease and oral N-Acetyl-cysteine /

enistein on Pre- and Postprandial Hyperglycemia, Hyperlipidemia, Inflammation and Ox Stress in

vivo"

Nestlé Research Fellowship

M. Engelen (The Netherlands): "The effect of cancer and surgery on the inter-organ protein

response to feeding"

Nutricia Research Fellowships

P. Kuhnlein (Germany): "PEG feeding and metabolic changes in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral

Sclerosis"

J.B. Wiroth (France): "Effects of resistance training and oral protein supplementation on

sarcopenia"

G. Johannesdottir (Norway): "Effect of protein composition on gastric emptying rate in children

with cerebral palsy"

D. Toporowska-Kowalska (Poland): "Effect of intensive enteral feeding on the nutritional status

and gut function in children with cancer - prospective randomized study"

D.L. Cai (China): "Efficacy of EPA-enriched enteral nutritional supplement in post-operative GI

cancer patients"