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

Events

Mar
28
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Melanie Dubois, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.

Title: Pediatric TB: Clinical and Research Perspectives
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Dubois, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Mar
14
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Marcela Rodriguez, Associate Professor at the Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.

Title: Nutritional immunity, a potential driver of TB pathogenesis
Speaker: Dr. Marcela Rodriguez, Associate Professor at the Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Feb
28
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Padmapriya Banada, Associate Professor at the Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.

Title: Revolutionizing Diagnostics: The Power of Molecular Technologies for TB and other infectious diseases
Speaker: Dr. Padmapriya Banada, Associate Professor at the Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Feb
21
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Teju Dharmapuri Vachaspathi from Treatment Action Group will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.

Title: The current and future TB diagnostic landscape
Speaker: Teju Dharmapuri Vachaspathi, Treatment Action Group
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Feb
05
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Jerry Ellner, Professor at the Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.

Title: Tuberculosis 2025: What we thought we knew but didn’t
Speaker: Dr. Jerry Ellner, Professor at the Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Jan
23
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Dr. Ed Nardell, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting.

Title: Controversies in TB Transmission
Speaker: Dr. Ed Nardell, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
Time: 2pm - 3pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Jan
17
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Saranathan Rajagopalan, Research Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.

Title: A Mycobacteriophage-based approach for rapid drug susceptibility testing for TB
Speaker: Dr. Saranathan Rajagopalan, Research Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Dec
20
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Max O'Donnell, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, will give us a talk. This will be an in-person meeting, and lunch will be provided.

Title: An open discussion: The potential of AI, large language models, unsupervised analysis and machine learning to accelerate research on drug-resistant TB
Speaker: Dr. Max O'Donnell, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Dec
06
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Bill Jacobs, Professor at 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: CIMSAUX mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: New tools for elucidating immune-mediated killing and sterilization in mammals
Speaker: Dr. Bill Jacobs, Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Time: 12pm - 1pm (EST)
Place: Weill Cornell Belfer Research Building BB-1101

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Nov
26
9:00am - 2:00pm

We are organizing our 2nd annual symposium of the NYC TRAC. Our current and past seed grand recipients and a guest speaker from SEATRAC will give us presentations on udpates of their research projects. 

Place: Belfer Building 3rd floor BB 302-C, BB 302-D
Time: 9am - 2pm (EST)

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Weill Cornell Medicine NYC Tri-Institutional TB Research Advancement Center (NYC TRAC) 420 East 70th Street, 4th Floor, Suite LH-455 New York, NY 10021 Phone: (646) 962-8140 Fax: (646) 962-0285