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Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane is Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research Labs. This interview was conducted at JHU on November 13, 2009. The following bio is excerpted from this bio sketch (.pdf – 80kb) , which includes a list of...

Dr. Joel S. Freundlich Dr. Joel S. Freundlich attended Cornell University as a McMullen scholar and an Exxon scholar, attaining his B.S. degree with Distinction in Chemical Engineering in 1991 and his M. Eng. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1992. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1996 in Organic...

Dr. Stewart Cole Stewart Cole helped create the Global Health Institute in 2007. Located at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), will use cutting-edge techniques to seek solutions to tuberculosis, a growing threat worldwide. Dr Cole’s work on tuberculosis, leprosy, AIDS, gas...

FT.com For World TB Day, the Financial Times’ Andrew Jack interviewed various members of the TB community to get their take on a range of topics: Paul Stoffels, head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson , explains why drugs to cope with tuberculosis have been slow to emerge from the pipelines of the...

Dr. Barbara Laughon 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...

Prof. Hans Rosling Compared to the widespread news coverage during the swine flu outbreak, TB receives little coverage, especially when you calculate the ratio of news hits to mortality. During a 13 day period in April and May of 2009, the WHO confirmed 31 deaths from swine flu. In that same period...

Norma Muñoz Former MDR-TB Patient This video appeared on the Washington Post’s website . Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What’s worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.

Dr. Jacques Grosset Dr. Jacques Grosset’s biography is excerpted from his staff page on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website . Since the beginning of my professional life I have been involved in research to improve the control of tuberculosis, mainly by improving treatment of tuberculosis and...

Susan Dorman Susan Dorman serves on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in TB Research is also the Medical Director of the Baltimore City TB Clinic. This interview was filmed at JHU on November 13, 2009.