The role of the Clinical Science Core is to provide new investigators, new to TB investigators and other TRAC investigators access to existing clinical TB research infrastructure and expertise to foster innovative multidisciplinary TB research. The activities of the core primarily concentrate on our partner site GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which is an established NIAID TB clinical trials unit with 39 years of collaboration with the Tri-I partners. We also support TB research collaborations at Weill Bugando School of Medicine in Mwanza, Tanzania.
The Clinical Science Core provides mentorship in clinical TB research to new investigators, provides technical expertise in clinical TB research including study design, data management, clinical laboratory and biostatistics, and provides access to TB clinical cohorts and a large well curated biobank of clinical samples from Haiti.
Directors: Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald (dwf2001@med.cornell.edu), Dr. Jean William Pape (jwpape@gheskio.org)