Mentored Scientist Award in TB

Application Due: MARCH 14, 2022 at 2:00pm (PST)

$40,000 Award

This TB-focused RAP grant is supported by the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis and is uniquely open to UCSF and UC Berkeley. Investigators with backgrounds in clinical, basic, behavioral-epidemiological, implementation, and/or health disparities TB research are welcomed to apply.  

Who is eligible? Postdocs, Clinical fellows, Assistant Professors. Investigators must be at either UCSF or UC Berkeley. *Please check full eligibility criteria here.

For more information, email Mariana Velleca, TB RAMP Program Coordinator.

UNITE4TB Webinar:

“Global Panel discussion on global burden of TB” 

March 3, 2022 | 4am PST (recorded)

The first UNITE4TB webinar will be recorded and posted on the ERS site. The webinar will be chaired by Raquel Duarte & Christoph Lange, and three early stage investigators (Raquel Villar Hernandez, Arash Ghodousi, Olha Konstantynovska) will present.  

The topics to be covered: 

• Epidemiology of TB (estimates of incidence, mortality, drug-resistant TB estimates, TB/HIV);  
• International targets and progress towards them; 
• New challenges and strategies to move forward; 
• Global End TB Strategy to face the challenge. 

Registration is free and open to all. For non ERS-members, please create a myERS profile in order to then register for the webinar.  

Ann Ginsberg, MD, PhD

at the CFAR Seminar with Sara Suliman, PhD, MPH

May 4, 2022 | 9:30am

The UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and UCSF Center for Tuberculosis are proud to co-host CFAR's May Seminar Series with Dr. Ann Ginsberg, Deputy Director, Tuberculosis, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for her talk "Progressive TB Vaccine Development."

Dr. Ginsberg's talk will be followed by Dr. Sara Suliman, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Division of Experimental Medicine.

The Social Science & Health Innovation for Tuberculosis (SSHIFTB) is a new virtual global community of practice seeking to connect scholars, advocates, and learners from a range of disciplines, institutions, and settings to increase their collective visibility, collaboration, and impact. SSHIFTB intends to stimulate new thinking around practices and interventions that specifically attend to the social aspects of TB. If you identify as someone working in this space or if you are looking for specific social science expertise, SSHIFTB is eager to connect with you. Please reach out to SSHIFTB at contact@sshiftb.org. You can also sign up for the quarterly newsletter.

American Thoracic Society

Conference 2022

May 13-18 | San Francisco

Remember to register for ATS 2022 and join the numerous UCSF faculty and post-docs presenting at the conference, including Drs. Adithya Cattamanchi, Christina Yoon, and many more.

In person and virtual options are available.

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