About

Center for Allergy and Immunology Research (CAIR) includes the major outpatient clinic in Transcaucasian region. It treats over 10000 allergy patients per year; trains students and specialists; and, conducts clinical trials and basic research. It is led by Prof. Maia Gotua, Vice President of the Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, who actively participates in different international task forces, and multicenter studies with a special interest in asthma and allergic rhinitis. CAIR has conducted in Georgia the ISAAC study, a huge global epidemiological survey in children with over 1.2 million participants worldwide.

Role in the project

As a clinical partner in SynAir-G, and in the frame of WP2 “Real-life multipollutant scenario: children at school and beyond”, CAIR will equally recruit and follow-up participants. CAIR will provide local communication with schools and families, representing diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. It will perform: a provision of instructions, training for participation, and baseline assessments of respiratory, immune, and mental health, using questionnaires and relevant physiological measurements (e.g. spirometry, FeNO). It will be in charge of the positioning of the sensors, developed in WP1, and to cross-checking their functionality.

Maia Gotua| Principal scientist, local PI, Prof., MD., PhD
As a Principal scientist of CAIR and local PI of the project in Georgia, I have responsibility to coordinate CAIR’s activity to participate in: 1) cohort inclusion stage of WP02, and communication with schools and families representing diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds in Tbilisi, Georgia; 2) cohort follow-up for a school year. Organize regularly visits to schools to keep sensors running and collect materials, provide real-time tracking, that will be coupled with regular communications and face-to-face visits for health outcome assessments; 3)Together with my colleagues I’ll take part in health outcomes analysis and reporting. In the frame of WP03, I have to organize identification of indoor sources of air pollutants in schools and homes.

Tamar Abramidze | Senior scientist, PhD
In the frame of WP02, CAIR participates in: 1) cohort inclusion stage of WP02, and responsible for communication with schools and families representing diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds in Georgia; 2) cohort follow-up for a school year. As local investigator, CAIR, will regularly visit schools to keep sensors running and collect materials, real-time tracking will be coupled with regular communication and face-to-face visits for health outcome assessments; 3) health outcomes analysis and reporting. In the frame of WP03, CAIR participates in identification of indoor sources of air pollutants in schools and homes.

Maia Rukhadze | Senior scientist, Prof., MD., PhD
In the frame of WP02, CAIR participates in: 1) cohort inclusion stage of WP02, and responsible for communication with schools and families representing diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds in Georgia; 2) cohort follow-up for a school year. As local investigator, CAIR, will regularly visit schools to keep sensors running and collect materials, real-time tracking will be coupled with regular communication and face-to-face visits for health outcome assessments; 3) health outcomes analysis and reporting. In the frame of WP03, CAIR participates in identification of indoor sources of air pollutants in schools and homes.