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Summary Available! TB Clinical Trials Consultants Meeting
On November 17 and 18, a TB Clinical Trials Consultants Meeting was held at St. George’s, University of London. The meeting was organized by CDC, CPTR, INTERTB, NIH, and TB Alliance. The meeting was convened to catalog expert opinion on the conduct of Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials in tuberculosis.
Posted in Front Lines of TB R&D, Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis, WGND Podcast Series
TB R&D Weekly Update: Podcast interview with Dr. Gyanu Lamicchane
Microbial geneticist Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research is one of 49 recipients of the New Innovator Award, which is given to promising scientists in the early stages of their careers and is supported directly with $1.5 million in research funding over five years. In this interview, we discuss the award and the related research that lead to the award, as well as, Dr. Lamichhane’s motivation to work with TB. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
TB R&D Weekly Update: Zinc Used by Host to Fight TB
This week, we provide an brief overview of research supported by CNRS, INSERM, Institut Pasteur and other donors providing new evidence of the role of Zinc in the body’s immune response to intracellular infection by M.tb. and the microbe’s strategy to subvert this defense. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
USAID Head: TB Drug Research Critical in Turning Tide Against Epidemic
Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presented the most recent David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
WGND 2010 Annual Meeting: Panel Discussion
Following the guest speakers, several representatives from companies conducting clinical trials of TB drug candidates presented brief updates on progress made in the clinical development of their candidates. We recap the presentations here and offer .pdf downloads of the original presentations.
WGND 2010 Annual Meeting Recap
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us in Berlin. This recap summarizes the work that was presented at our Annual Meeting on November 12. Co-chairs of WGND, Mel Spigelmen and Bill Bishai opened the annual meeting by welcoming the attendees and briefly reviewing the agenda for the meeting.
Report from NIH/NIAID Town Hall on HIV/AIDS Clinical Trial Network Restructuring
Lisan Parker was on hand at the Town Hall Meeting to Examine the Restructuring of the NIH/NIAID Clinical Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS & Other Infectious Diseases and filed this report.
An Interview with Barbara Laughon of NIH/NIAID
Dr. Barbara Laughon works in the Office of the Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID). She is also a Core Group member of the Working Group on New TB Drugs and is the Candidates Subgroup leader. This interview was filmed at JHU on November [...]
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