NYC Tri-Institutional TB Research Advancement Center (NYC TRAC)
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NYC Tri-Institutional
Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center
- NYC TRAC - 

The mission of the TRAC is to pool the expertise and resources of an outstanding team of senior tuberculosis (TB) investigators at the three institutions in order to expand the number of investigators in the field of TB research and to promote innovative multidisciplinary TB research.

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Dr. Kayvan Zainabadi Initiates Project to Evaluate a New Molecular Diagnostic for Tuberculosis (TB)

February 3, 2025

Dr. Kayvan Zainabadi, a TRAC awardee from our first cohort, is initiating a project supported by  RePORT (Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis) International/NIAID and administered though CRDF.  Dr. Zainabadi is the principle investigator and is joined by another Center Associate P

The Union Conference 2024

January 3, 2025

Photo 1: (From left to right) Dr. Kathryn Dupnik, Dr. Kathleen Walsh, Dr. Jyoti Mathad, Dr. Melanie Dubois, Dr. Andrea Doltrario

In November 2024, two of our TRAC grant recipients – Dr. Kathleen Walsh and Dr. Andrea Doltrario, two investigators supported by NYC TRAC – Dr. Melanie Dubois and Dr. Kathryn Dupnik, and a Clinical Science Expert in NYC TRAC – Dr. Jyoti Mathad, joined and gave presentations at the Union World Conference on Lung Health 2024, which occurred in Bali, Indonesia. The details of oral research presentations by Dr. Walsh and Dr. Doltrario are below.

2nd Annual Symposium of NYC Tri-I TRAC

November 26, 2024

On November 25, we successfully organized the 2nd annual NYC Tri-I TRAC symposium at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. This year’s event featured a diverse lineup of presentations, including proposals from current seed-grant recipients, updates from past investigators supported by NYC TRAC, and a guest speaker from SEATRAC, another TRAC based in Seattle.

The first session was dedicated to presentations by the current seed-grant recipients. Below is the list of speakers and their presentation titles:

NIAID TRACs Annual Meeting at UC Berkeley

October 25, 2024

Two early stage investigators from our NYC TRAC, Dr. Christopher Brown and Dr. Kohta Saito, shared their recent findings at the NIH conference.