Drs. Christophe Perrin & Stijn Deborggraev from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: TBD Speaker: Dr. Christophe Perrin & Dr. Stijn Deborggraev Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
Mr. Mike Frick, TB Project Co-Director, Treatment Action Group (TAG), will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: TBD Speaker: Mr. Mike Frick, TB Project Co-Director, Treatment Action Group (TAG) Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
Dr. Laura Kirkman, Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Conrll Medicine, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: TBD Speaker: Dr. Laura Kirkman, Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Conrll Medicine Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
Dr. Mel Spigelman, President and Chief Executive Officer, TB Alliance, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: TB Eradication - Realistic? How? When? Speaker: Dr. Mel Spigelman, President and Chief Executive Officer, TB Alliance Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
Dr. David Alland,Chief of Division of Infectious Disease,Director of The Public Health Research Institute (PHRI), Rutgers, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: The long and winding road to develop a suite of TB diagnostics – a personal story Speaker: Dr. David Alland,Chief of Division of Infectious Disease,Director of The Public Health Research Institute (PHRI), Rutgers Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
Dr. Susan Dorman, Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.
Title: The TB Treatment Landscape: 2024 Speaker: Dr. Susan Dorman, Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB 302-A&B
Dr. Morten Ruhwald, TB program director of FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics), will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.
Title: TBD Speaker: Dr. Morten Ruhwald, TB program director of FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics) Time: 9am - 10am (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB 11th floor
Dr. William Jacobs, Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: What Can Auxotrophic Mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis teach us about Persistence and Immune Evasion? Speaker: Dr. William Jacobs, Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
Dr. Anna Upton, Senior Vice President, Infectious Diseases, Evotec, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: Using animal models to predict performance of new TB drugs – promises and pitfalls Speaker: Dr. Anna Upton, Senior Vice President, Infectious Diseases, Evotec Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101
We are inviting Maria Smilios, an author of the book titled "The Black Angels - THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NURSES WHO HELPED CURE TUBERCULOSIS" on April 1st.
This is the story of black nurses in Staten Island, New York, from the early 1900s through World War II until the 1960s. Despite the discrimination they faced at that time, they provided compassionate care to thousands of people with TB over decades and participated in drug trials that ultimately led to the successful treatment and cure of TB.
Dr. BarryKreiswirth, Professor at the Center for Discovery and Innovation, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: The molecular epidemiology of TB: lessons learned and neglected Speaker: Dr. BarryKreiswirth, Professor at the Center for Discovery and Innovation Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Buidling BB-1101
Dr. Max O'Donnell and Dr. Barun Mathema will host aSymposium on Emerging Resistance to New Anti-Tuberculosis Agents on March 20th-21st to bring together a diverse set of experts to define challenges and identify cross-sector recommendations to address emerging resistance to novel anti-TB agents.
Our faculty member, Dr. Katey Walsh will join the symposium as a speaker.
Dr. Vincent Escuyer, Director of the Mycobacteriology Laboratory at New York State Department of Health will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.
Title: The changing landscape of TB treatment: New challenges for the clinical laboratories Speaker: Dr. Vincent Escuyer, Director of the Mycobacteriology Laboratory at New York State Department of Health Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST) Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Buidling BB-1101
