Our study still remains high in its online altimetric scores many months after its publication. According to the PNAS website, our article lies in the top 5% of all articles ranked by attention. It is reported to make very good compared to articles of the same age (99th percentile). So far Altmetric has tracked 24,829 […]

A new focused aircraft monitoring campaign is scheduled to take place over NW Japan next February, if IC3 scientists manage to gather the amount of funds needed to cover for the costs of the flights. The objective is to further test whether the Candida hypothesis or the environmental toxin agent, both raised in the latest […]

IC3 and the Kawasaki Disease consortium have established a new joint collaboration with scientists at both Toyama and Kanazawa Hospitals to advance research onto causes of Kawasaki disease. Medical doctor experts on cardiomyopathies and Kawasaki disease Dr. Fukiko Ichida from the University of Toyama and Dr. Tsuneyuki Nakamura in Kanazawa Medical School have recently added […]

A long time has passed since the first Kawasaki disease patient was identified in Japan by Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki and yet no agreement on its cause and potential agent/s has consistently emerged. Different theories suggested different epidemiological pathways, ranging from a typical infectious disease to different kinds of exacerbated host responses in susceptible children being […]

Analysis of wind dynamics and fluctuations of Kawasaki disease numbers in the different cities within the Greater Tokyo, as well as results from computer simulations with a Lagrangian particle dispersion model suggest that there is a short incubation time for Kawasaki disease, typically in the range of 6 hours to 2.5 days. Simulations and analyses […]

Kawasaki disease may be caused by fungal particles or toxins carried on wind currents from dense croplands in northeastern China to Japan, according to our new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Kawasaki disease, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children worldwide, […]

Scientists of IC3 and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona have recently joined forces in the search of an etiological agent and potential treatment for Kawasaki disease patients. The Hospital’s group led by Dr. Jordi Anton, Senior Attendant of the Pediatric Rheumatology Unit has an special interest in this disease and follows a big […]

Photo credit: Jane Burns We are positively surprised to see that our study promoted a lot of media attention as well as discussion and great recognition by our scientific community peers. You can find below some of the journals that made news features (e.g. in ‘Autoinflammatory Diseases’ they entitled the piece as ‘Kawasaki Disease and […]

We recently finalised the 2014 winter-spring campaign of flights over Japan. We were able to perform 10 successful flights between February and April. Our engineer Roger Curcoll has already packaged all the instrumental equipment and transported them to NIES at Tsukuba University. The equipment will wait there until the next summer campaign. The samples obtained […]

After some days of rain, bad weather, and eastern winds, we have finally found 4 consecutive days (5rth, 6th, 7th and 8th of April) for finishing this 2014 winter-spring campaign of flights. All these days we have flown under NW wind conditions, sampling from Downtown Tokyo at 1000m in North-West direction until arriving at Nagano […]