Myr Storm-Bowles, 7th grade student at San Francisco Schoolhouse, is doing a year-long passion project on tuberculosis. Myr reached out to the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis to learn more about TB. Myr will be completing his passion project on TB this fall, and we invite you to support his efforts. View Myr's speech, short interview, and Go Fund Me for Stop TB Partnership.



Want to support? Please donate and forward Myr's gofundme page or contact Sarah Hutchinson for more information.

UC TRAC is offering consultation services for ESI and 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.

Consultations are provided on a rolling basis.

The Basic Science Voucher Program is designed to support NI's test their hypotheses, reagents and models in in vitro and in vivo models of M. tuberculosis infection.

The vouchers will provide salary support for BSL-3 trained staff to perform the necessary experiments.

The next deadline is June 30, 2023.

Programs offered by UC TRAC are eligible to UCSF and UC Berkeley investigators and trainees.

Check out our new research menu at the top of our newsletter!

UCSF World TB Day Planning Committee Member Search

The UCSF World TB Day Planning Committee is led by early career investigators and is searching for two members to join Drs. Sophie Huddart and Paul Ogongo for WTBD 2024.

Contact Barbara Alonso or Sarah Hutchinson with questions or if interested in joining!

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

received the

John F. Murray, MD Award for Academic Excellence

in Internal Medicine & Dedication to the Humanitarian Mission of ZSFG

2023 Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Medicine Service Awards

CURRY CENTER TRAININGS

Case Management for Latent TB Infection

July 6 | 12:00pm - 2:15pm | Virtual Training | Free of Charge

Fundamentals of Medical & Case Management of Drug-Susceptible TB

August 23 | 12:00pm - 2:30pm | Virtual Training | Free of Charge

JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Postdoctoral Position - TB

Stanford University

With Dr. Jason Andrews

Assistant Professor - TB

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Senior Research Software Engingeer - TB

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

ACET Meeting

June 20 - 21 | Washington, DC | Zoom

The Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET) meeting will be open to the public via Zoom. See the public announcement in the Federal Register here.

AGENDA

Zoom Link | Passcode: 1@yr$G#H 

2023 TB-related Conferences

NTCA | June 12-15 | Atlanta, GA

National TB Controllers Association

VARN | June 13-15 | Bangkok

Vaccination Acceptance Research Network

IAS | July 23-26 | Brisbane, Australia 

International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science

View the full working draft of 2023 TB-related conferences list. Link only available to UCSF Center for Tuberculosis-affiliated faculty and staff. Please email Barbara Alonso for recommendations or edits.

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