Originally held on 29 June 2021, in this final open-to-all webinar hosted by the PERFORM consortium, partners shared the major results from the five-year Horizon2020 project to develop easy to use, personalised tests to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections in febrile children.
Chief Investigator, Prof. Mike Levin from Imperial College London introduced PERFORM’s consortium of researchers and paediatric doctors who presented their findings, followed by a plenary discussion for the audience to ask questions to the researchers.
CEST 10:00-10:15
Introduction: What did PERFORM aim to do?
Prof. Mike Levin, Imperial College London (UK)
CEST 10:15-10:30
The uncomfortable truth of the changing pattern of febrile illness in children
Prof. Federico Martinón-Torres, Servizo Galego de Saúde (Spain)
CEST 10:30-10:45
Febrile illness presenting to emergency departments in Europe – recognising the seriously ill child- what we learned from PERFORM (MOFICHE)
Dr Clementien Vermont, Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
CEST 10:45-11:05
Infections resulting in critical illness and in immunocompromised children
Prof. Luregn Schlapbach, University Children's Hospital Zurich (Switzerland)
Followed by Prof. Marieke Emonts, Newcastle University (UK)
CEST 11:05-11:20
Febrile illness in Nepal, Gambia and Taiwan: What PERFORM tells us about febrile illness in the global perspective
Nepal: Dr Michael Carter, University of Oxford (UK)
Gambia: Dr Effua Usuf, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK)
Taiwan: Dr Ching-Fen Shen, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)
CEST 11:20-11:35
Q&A Moderator
Jethro Herberg, Imperial College London (UK)
CEST 11:35 -11:45
Comfort break
CEST 11:45-12:00
Can molecular pathogen detection help diagnosis of febrile children?
Dr Marie Voice, Micropathology (UK)
Dr Priyen Shah, Imperial College London (UK)
CEST 12:00-12:15
How will new tests for diagnosis of bacterial infection perform in the real world?
Prof. Shunmay Yeung, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK)
CEST 12:15-12:30
Identification of protein biomarkers to improve the diagnosis of infectious diseases
Dr Marien de Jonge, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
CEST 12:30-12:45
Diagnosis of infection by RNA molecular signature
Dr Myrsini Kaforou, Imperial College London (UK)
CEST 12:45-13:00
Turning RNA diagnostic signatures into a test
Dr Karen Brengel-Pesce, bioMérieux (France)
CEST 13:00-13:15
Developing personalised molecular diagnosis - where next after PERFORM - DIAMONDS
Prof. Mike Levin, Imperial College London (UK)
CEST 13:15-13:45
How does PERFORM alter our understanding of the cause and management of febrile illness in children?
Closing questions and discussion with moderators:
Prof. Federico Martinón-Torres, Servizo Galego de Saúde (Spain)
Prof. Enitan Carrol, University of Liverpool (UK)
CEST 13:45-13:50
Event ends
