September 2018
News and events from the Centre this month
Thank you to everyone who contributed to content for this month’s newsletter.
Inside this month’s TB Centre Newsletter:
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Events
Courses
North London TB Journal Club
Job opportunities
Funding call
Call for papers
TB Centre members at conferences
Featured publications by TB Centre members
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Mishal Khan, Deputy Director of the TB Centre, and Liz Corbett will represent us at the United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on tuberculosis. This is a unique opportunity to draw attention to the work done here at the School but, also, in other institutions in the UK and around the world and make sure that TB is high on the political agenda. Keep an eye out for communications regarding the meeting and our involvement and, if you aren’t following us on twitter, please do so @LSHTM_TB
Events
Please note that the mini-retreat, which was scheduled for the 6 November 2018, has been postponed due to a clash. We will update you with the new date as soon as possible.
“Does BCG protect infants from severe forms of childhood tuberculosis by trained innate and humoral mechanisms?” The Department of Immunology and Infection invites you to a PhD upgrading seminar on Tuesday 11 September, at 12.30pm. For more information, please click here.
The South of England TB Control Board is organising an educational and networking event in Bristol on the 8th October. For more information and to register, please click here.
Courses
Joint London Advanced TB Course and European Advanced Clinical TB Course 2018
12-14 November 2018
Royal College of Physicians, London
Course Directors: Prof O Kon, Prof G Bothamley and Dr D Kumar
North London Tb Journal Club is a monthly journal club that has been running since 2012. It is organised by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Médicins Sans Frontières’ Manson Unit, The Francis Crick Institute and Queen Mary University of London. Colleagues from associated institutions are more than welcome to participate.
Upcoming Dates
October 2018
Chair: Emily Wise
Date and time: Wednesday 10th October, 1-2pm
Venue: UCL (Exact room details to be posted shortly)
There are two consultancy opportunities available. The first one is to support the WHO Global TB Programme with comms during the UN High Level meeting on TB and you can find more details here. The second one is to promote and support the implementation of TB patient cost surveys and you can read more here.
Funding call
For the first time the Initiative 5% of Expertise France has launched a call on operational research focused entirely on TB. This presents opportunities for OR on prevention and care of TB and MDR-TB in all the 47 eligible countries. Amongst others, projects could look at scalable strategies for testing and treating active and latent TB and the use of innovative shorter regimens for MDR-TB. Total funds available are EUR 4 million, and a single project may be funded up to EUR 1 Million. More details (in French) here and text of call here. Applications are accepted until 26 October and may be written in English.
Call for papers
The editors of PLOS Medicine announced a special issue on new approaches to alleviate the individual and epidemiological burden of turberculosis. Deadline for research submissions is 9 November 2018 and you can read more here.
TB Centre members at conferences
Dr Jayne Sutherland will be presenting on “Identification of an Mtb-specific soluble host signature for risk of development of active TB in HIV+ Mtb-exposed contacts” at the 9th EDCTP Forum in Portugal.
Abubakar I, Drobniewski F, Southern J, Sitch AJ, Jackson C, Lipman M, Deeks JJ, Griffiths C, Bothamley G, Lynn W, Burgess H, Mann B, Imran A, Sridhar S, Tsou CY, Nikolayevskyy V, Rees-Roberts M, Whitworth H, Kon OM, Haldar P, Kunst H, Anderson S, Hayward A, Watson JM, Milburn H, Lalvani A; PREDICT Study Team
Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Aug 30. pii: S1473-3099(18)30355-4. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30355-4. [Epub ahead of print]
Sobkowiak B, Glynn J R, Houben R M G J, Mallard K, Phelan J E, Guerra-Assunção J A, Banda L, Mzembe T, Viveiros M, McNerney R, Parkhill J, Crampin A C, Clark T G
Koesoemadinata R C, Kranzer K, Livia R, Susilawati N, Annisa J, Soetedjo N N M, Ruslami R, Philipsen R, van Ginneken B, Soetikno R D, van Crevel R, Alisjahbana B, Hill P C
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2018; 22(9):1088-1094 PubMed
Walker N F, Stek C, Wasserman S, Wilkinson R J, Meintjes G
Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2018 Aug 18. doi: 10.1097/COH.0000000000000502. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30124473
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