News about 'WGND Podcast Series'

Dr. Iwao Ojima Dr. Iwao Ojima is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at Stony Brook University. His group recently published a paper in PLOS One entitled A Trisubstituted Benzimidazole Cell Division Inhibitor with Efficacy against...

Dr. Gill Black Summary: Dr. Gill Black is the co-founder and Director of Health and Welfare at The Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation (SLF). In this inteview, we discuss with Dr. Black one of SLF’s groundbreaking projects that uses drama to engage local communities around issues related to TB and...

Dr. Tawanda Gumbo Summary: Dr. Tawanda Gumbo , an associate professor at the The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, recently published a paper in the Journal of Infectious Diseases entitled “Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis not due to noncompliance but to between-patient...

Dr. Yossef Av-Gay Summary: Dr. Yossef Av-Gay , a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia, recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled “ Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein tyrosine phosphatase (PtpA...

Gyanu Lamicchane Summary: 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...

Dr. Sanjib Bhakta Summary: This week’s interview is with Dr. Sanjib Bhakta who is a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at Birkbeck, University of London. In the interview, we discuss his work in screening for potential candidates for anti-tuberculosis treatment. Dr. Bhakta’s Laboratory has developed...

Dr. Armand Van Deun Summary: This week’s interview is with Dr. Armand Van Deun who was the recipient of the 2010 Stop TB Partnership-Kochon Foundation prize . Last year, Dr. Van Deun, et al., published an article in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine entitled “ Short,...

Operation ASHA is an NGO based out of New Delhi, India and Chicago, USA Summary: Shelly Batra is a renowned gyn & obs surgeon in New Delhi. She has a deep desire to serve the community. She has worked pro-bono for dissemination of medical information with many television stations and newspapers...

Dr. Edward Nardell, Partners in Health Summary: This week, we feature an interview with Dr. Edward Nardell who is a pulmonologist with a special interest in tuberculosis; trained in pulmonary medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital with additional research training at Boston University School of...

Dr. Bernard Fourie Summary: The WGND had the opportunity to interview Dr. Bernard Fourie who is head of Medicine in Need-South Africa (MEND-SA). In addition, Dr. Fourie is an Extraordinary Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In the interview, we discuss...

Photos of Lalita Ramakrishnan, Paul Edelstein, and Christine Cosma Summary: The WGND had the opportunity to interview three researchers (Lalita Ramakrishnan, Paul Edelstein, and Christine Cosma) involved in the groundbreaking research on the role of efflux pumps in contributing to drug tolerance...

Summary: Dr. Eric Nuermberger is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The WGND had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Nuermberger on a recent article entitled “PA-824 exhibits time-dependent...

[wpaudio url=”/blog/media/podcasts/Andersen_Peter_finished.mp3″ text=”Click here to play the Peter Anderson Podcast” dl=”0″] Summary: Dr. Peter Andersen is Vice President of Vaccine Research and Development at Statens Serum Institut (SSI). The WGND had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Andersen on a...

Summary: Dr. Philip Bourne is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Editor in Chief of PL0S Computational Biology . The WGND had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Bourne on a recent article published in PLoS Computational...

[wpaudio url=”/blog/media/podcasts/Anne_Lenaerts_Interview_edited-norm.mp3″ text=”Anne Lenaerts Interview” dl=”0″] Summary: Dr. Anne Lenaerts is an associate professor at Colorado State University”s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology...