World TB Day 2023

CALL FOR 3-MIN ABSTRACTS

THEME: The Many Faces of the TB Community: Partnership between patients, researchers, and advocates.

KEYNOTE: Achilles Katamba, PhD

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

RSVP by March 10

RSVP for WTBD

WTBD ANNOUNCEMENT

Call for 3-Min Abstract Competition

Submit Now!

Deadline: March 10

WTBD is hosting a session dedicated to help researchers learn how to share their work effectively with the community. The competition will reward who can best present their work in layman’s terms in 3 minutes. The winner will receive a prize!

Who can apply? Everyone! Senior/ junior faculty, postdoc fellows, research analysts/ associates, and grad students.

Learn more here. Includes link to example video and selection process details.

TB RAMP APPLICATIONS OPEN!

RAP AWARDS

The Resource Allocation Program awards in TB research are mentoring and training grants eligible to UCSF and UC Berkeley Early Stage Investigators to conduct a TB-focused research project. RAP Awardees will receive $40,000 toward their research and be enrolled in TB RAMP.

Deadline to Apply:

February 27, 2023 (2pm PST)

Apply for RAP Award

TB RAMP

TB RAMP is an integrated program of creative educational, training, and mentoring activities with a focus on research skills development, provision of research opportunities and experiences, and sustained mentoring activities. The program is eligible to advanced doctoral students, fellows, postdocs, and junior faculty from UCSF and UC Berkeley in TB research.

Read more on program components, current TB RAMP Scholars, and qualifications at link below. Flyer linked here.

Deadline to Apply:

April 19, 2023

Apply for TB RAMP

Consultation Service

UCTRAC is offering consultation services for ESI/NI as well as established researchers in pursuit of both clinical and basic research.

Consultation is provided by a roster of faculty at UCSF and UC Berkeley, as well as external experts.

Consultation Service

Voucher Program

The UCTRAC Voucher Program is designed to support ESI's and NI's engaged in basic science to test their hypotheses, reagents and models in in vitro and in vivo models of M. tuberculosis infection. The vouchers will provide support for trained personnel who will perform the necessary experiments.

Voucher Program

Programs offered by UCTRAC are eligible to UCSF and UC Berkeley early-stage and new-to-TB investigators. Clinical consultation service available to established researchers in TB.

UCTRAC Website

The Supporting, Mobilizing and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB) consortium, with funding from USAID, is inviting diagnostic developers to apply for funding to advance the development of oral swab-based TB assays on already-existing point-of-care (POC) molecular platforms via the below-linked RFA Portal.

Please forward to all qualified colleagues.

Questions? Email Seda Yerlikaya, M.Sc. for more information.

Deadline to Apply: March 15, 2023

RFA Portal

PacTB Conference

March 30-31 | UC Berkeley

PacTB (Pacific TB) brings together UC Berkeley, University of Washington-Seattle, and Oregon Health and Science University annually for TB researchers at all levels to share research, foster collaborations, and enjoy the west coast TB community!

This year, UC Berkeley has the honor of hosting. PacTB 2023 is co-sponsored by UCTRAC and UC Berkeley CEND. Contact the organizer at UC Berkeley CEND, Celine Perier, with questions or interest in presenting.

Congratulations, Lisa Chen!

President of Union-NAR

Dr. Lisa Chen, Medical Director of the UCSF Curry International Tuberculosis Center, will be inducted to serve a two-year term as President of Union-North American Region (NAR) in Vancouver this weekend.

Congratulations, Lisa! The UCSF Center for Tuberculosis team is celebrating you!

Congratulations and gratitude to the many faculty representing UCSF this week at Union-NAR, including Priya Shete, Devan Jaganath, Jenny Flood, and Sophie Huddart!

Grand Rounds with

Drs. Fauci and Goosby

March 7 | 11am - 12pm | Zoom

IGHS grand rounds, in conjunction with the Center for Pandemic Preparedness & Response conversation series, invite you to join this virtual conversation via Zoom or at a watch party in Mission Hall 3700.

Invitation for Public Comments

on draft WHO tuberculosis target product profiles

The World Health Organization (WHO) invites all stakeholders to comment on the latest drafts of the target regimen profiles (TRPs) for TB treatment and the target product profiles (TPPs) for tests for TB treatment monitoring and optimization, by means of online feedback forms.

Deadline: March 9

WHO Public Comment