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On Friday, June 11th, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research hosted their annual scientific meeting and the WGND was there to cover the event. Approximately 100-200 people were present including persons from NIH and small pharmaceutical companies. This annual meeting is an opportunity for the epidemiological, clinical and basic researchers to relate their most recent studies and results. Overall, the meeting was dynamic and informative.
The scientific method starts early
The meeting was organized into 3 general sections: Basic Science, Epidemiology and Clinical, and Drugs and Animal Models. There were 23 speakers including the Keynote address by Andrew Nunn from the British Medical Research Council. Andrew spoke about his training experiences in the background of the history of TB clinical trial development over the last 40 years.
The following is a list of all of the speakers with their talk titles. Brief additional comments and/or links are included for most of the talks.
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Maunank Shah: ‘Interferon-gamma release assays for detection of M. tuberculosis infection in children exposed to TB in Soweto, South Africa’- IGRAs potentially more sensitive for detecting TB in the pediatric population.
