L‘Azienda sanitaria dell’Alto Adige e la Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität (PMU) di Salisburgo hanno istituito un fondo per promuovere la ricerca sanitaria. Per il periodo di finanziamento 2021/22 è stato messo a disposizione circa 1 milione di euro. Su 36 progetti ricevuti, 16 sono stati ritenuti idonei al finanziamento.

Nel febbraio 2023, questi progetti sono stati presentati al pubblico e premiati durante un’apposita cerimonia:

Level 1 Projects

1) Dietmar Ausserhofer: Optimizing the interprofessional perioperative care of geriatric patients at risk for delirium after elective surgery – A multi-method study to develop and evaluate the feasibility and practicability of a Geriatric Delirium Pass (GeDePa)

2) Mohsen Beheshti: Artificial intelligence in prediction of outcome using pretreatment [68Ga]Ga-PSMA -11 PET/CT radiomics in metastatic castration resistent prostate cancer patients prior to radionuclide therapy with 177Lu-PSMA

3) Francesco Brigo: Nursing assessment of frailty in triage in the emergency department as a tool to improve the definition of patient frailty – A multicentre prospective observational study.

4) Luca Calabrese: Anatomical characterization of the hyo-stiloglossus unit: a new pivotal concept for preserving functionality in extensive tongue surgery.

5) Christian Deininger: Development of a machine-learning triage algorithm for fracture risk in trauma emergency departments FRISK

6) Peter Matzneller: Impact of low dose methotrexate on sperm quality of patients with rheumatologicdiseases

7) Hannes Nosslinger: Comparison of two multiplex arrays and a point-of-care test in the diagnostics of allergy

8) Eugen Trinka: HFOs on demand. Evaluation of the effects of clinical invasive brain stimulation (1 Hz vs. 50 Hz) on the high-frequency domain and its possible use as a diagnostic tool for epileptogenic tissue. - A quantitative EEG study.

9) Viviana Versace: Dynamic reorganization of motor cortex activity in stroke patients: a TMS-EEG study

Level 2 Projects

10) Silvia Bozzetti: Biomarkers of Neuro-axonal and Glial Damage in Epileptic Seizures and Status Epilepticus

11) Andreas Conca: Personalized high frequency monitoring and feedback in Psychotherapy - A transdiagnostical process-orientated approach to psychiatric disorders

12) Werner Passler: Genetic and epidemiological features of PKD in province of Bolzano - South Tyrol

13) Jan Pruszak: Novel quantitative readouts of dopaminergic neuronal phenotype and function by cytometric biomarkers and computational tools

14) Viktorija Sokolova: Evaluating the impact of XPOl mRNA expression on the molecular landscape and on selinexor response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

15) Florian Wichlas: Mini plates for complex fracture surgery: Treatment of osteoporotic, highly comminuted, and open fractures

16) Christian Josef Wiedermann: Quality of care for osteoarthritis in South Tyrol, Italy as compared to patients of the health resort of Gastein, Austria: A survey in general practice

Peter A. Seebacher