Members
The EMPRESS Research Network is governed by three bodies — the Steering Committee, the Coordinating Committee, and the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) — supported by a project manager.
Steering Committee
Responsibilities: provide scientific direction; approve the protocol and important amendments; oversee overall study progress; make final decisions on key scientific issues (including sample size re-estimation and blinded data reviews).
Domestic
- Xiaobo Huang (Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital)
- Chun Pan (Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital)
- Jingchao Luo (Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital)
- Mei Meng (Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine)
- Yongpo Jiang (Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province)
- Xi Guo (Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Third Campus)
International
- Minghao Luo (United Kingdom)
- Jean-Louis Teboul (France · Université Paris-Saclay)
- Glenn Hernández (Chile · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
- Miguel Ibarra-Estrada (Mexico · Universidad de Guadalajara)
- Eduardo Kattan (Chile · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Coordinating Committee
Responsibilities: day-to-day coordination of the network and study centers; site initiation and training; monitoring of enrollment progress and data quality; liaison with ethics committees and regulatory authorities.
- Jingchao Luo (Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital)
- Sen Lu (Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital)
- Jian Song (Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital)
Project Manager
- Rongmao Gao (Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital)
Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB)
Responsibilities: independent of the study team, periodically review safety and efficacy data; assess benefit-risk against prespecified boundaries; advise the Steering Committee to continue, modify, or stop the study. Board members are not involved in study conduct.
- Ignacio Martin-Loeches (Ireland · St James’s Hospital / Trinity College Dublin · Chair)
- Longxiang Su (Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)
- Xiaobo Yang (Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan)
Participating Centers
The EMPRESS study is conducted at more than 50 tertiary hospital centers across China (emergency, respiratory, medical, surgical, and other ICUs). The list of participating centers and contact information will be published here once confirmed by the Coordinating Committee.
- List of participating centers — to be announced