Sentences with phrase «tuberculosis research»

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All net proceeds from «Lions Share» were donated to bovine tuberculosis research, and medicine for the lions of South Africa to curb the spread of the deadly disease.

She is the recipient of several prestigious local and international awards including South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, from the President of South Africa in 2013 for outstanding work in the field of HIV / AIDS and Tuberculosis Research and Health Policy Development, the 2013 African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Prize for Science and Technology, the 2014 TWAS - Lenovo Prize from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) «for her exceptional and distinguished contributions to HIV prevention and women's health» and the 2016 L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award for Africa and the Arab States.

Hennessey says: «It's a deal that should have happened, and it's a tragedy for tuberculosis research that it hasn't.»

«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.

However, a lot of tuberculosis research is undertaken using the closely related Mycobacterium avium.

This makes it interesting to study M. avium directly, but the results can also be transferred to tuberculosis research.

It was a rich and rewarding workplace for a novice, surrounded by people who were experts in disparate aspects of tuberculosis research including clinical trials, epidemiology, and immunopathology.

I qualified for an ICMR fellowship, which I used to study for my Ph.D. at the Tuberculosis Research Centre, located in my hometown of Madras (Chennai).

The lead author is William Bishai, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Center for Tuberculosis Research.

New research conducted at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that lower doses of the toxic drug bedaquiline — given together with verapamil, a medication that's used to treat various heart conditions — can lead to the same antibacterial effects as higher toxic doses of bedaquiline.

Not exact matches

One of the infectious agents the research team studied was the organism that causes tuberculosis (TB)-- a disease that is a huge problem in many countries of the world and getting worse because of the development of antibiotic - resistant strains.

Mike Frick, senior project officer for the Treatment Action Group, which advocates for research to overcome HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis, explained how the right to science has come to inform TAG's work on tuberculosis in particular.

La Montagne chaired the World Health Organization Task Force on Strategic Planning for the Children's Vaccine Initiative, advised the Pan American Health Organization on programs for vaccine - research implementation, and served as a member of the board for the Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development.

Orme and his research team in Fort Collins investigated whether the existing vaccine for TB, which goes by the acronym BCG (bacille Calmette - Guerin), worked equally well against different clinical strains of tuberculosis.

And despite offering a wealth of compelling research opportunities — such as drug - resistant tuberculosis in the Baltics (see sidebar on p. 199), the primeval forests of Poland, and the archaeological treasures of Cyprus — the ability of the newcomers to win grants in the first call of the Sixth Framework was discouraging.

«This app has the potential to help in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world, bringing the concept of mobile healthcare to reality,» said Ali Yetisen, a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, who led the research.

A Johnson & Johnson research team identified a new compound known as R207910 that kills the M. tuberculosis bacterium by inhibiting the cell's energy - producing machinery.

Center of Research and Training for HIV and Tuberculosis, University of Science, Technique and Technologies of Bamako, Mali.

The research also concludes that vitamin D supplementation could be explored in other species such as badgers, which are key hosts for bovine tuberculosis in the UK.

«Using a mouse model of tuberculosis, we have shown lower doses of bedaquiline together with verapamil have the same antibacterial effect as the higher toxic doses,» says Shashank Gupta, Ph.D., a research fellow at Johns Hopkins.

Tuberculosis (TB) tricks the immune system into attacking the body's lung tissue so the bacteria are allowed to spread to other people, new research from the University of Southampton suggests.

Canada's blanket practice of screening all newly arriving immigrants for tuberculosis (TB) is highly inefficient and should focus on only those arriving from countries with high rates of TB, according to research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

«New drug combinations could significantly improve tuberculosis treatment: Therapies selected using feedback system control may shorten treatment time and combat drug resistance, research shows.»

«If our findings are confirmed in human studies, the new drug regimens that we have identified should dramatically shorten the time needed to treat tuberculosis,» said Dr. Marcus Horwitz, a senior author on the research and a distinguished professor of medicine and microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

Now, research conducted by Rockefeller scientists under the direction of Seth Darst, the Jack Fishman Professor, and Elizabeth Campbell, a senior research associate in Darst's laboratory, offers hope for a new and potent weapon against tuberculosis.

As a result, research into additional control measures will be needed to prevent drug - resistant tuberculosis spreading between people.

«Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

Sidney Malama's research shows that cross infection of both M. tuberculosis and M. bovis occurs between humans and animals in this region.

By explaining how the drug operates, their research might allow others to design new antibiotics that could in fact be used to treat tuberculosis patients — and might even work on other bugs.

The approach used in this research «holds great potential to generate more rifamycin analogs to combat the threat of MDR strains of M. tuberculosis, and / or other life - threatening pathogens,» the researchers wrote in their conclusion.

The Gates Foundation brings treatment to the indigent and funds lifesaving research, including development of new tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS vaccines.

«Drug resistance is hindering efforts to control HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, which collectively kill nearly 3 million people worldwide every year,» said Nina Wale, graduate student at Penn State at the time of the research, and lead author of the paper.

Research carried out by the University of Sussex and the Polish Academy of Sciences has identified two key proteins that allow mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), to «lay low» within cells designed to destroy them.

New research suggests the bacteria that cause tuberculosis alter their metabolism to combat exposure to antimicrobials, and that these metabolic «escape pathways» might be neutralized by new drugs to shorten the troublesome duration of therapy.

Farrar is now heading the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he has done research on drug resistance in tuberculosis and other dResearch Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he has done research on drug resistance in tuberculosis and other dresearch on drug resistance in tuberculosis and other diseases.

The research team, led by Professor Paul Ortiz de Montellano in the US, investigated the impact of compounds related to cholesterol on the tuberculosis - causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

«In India, many people believed that pharmacists were generating drug - resistant tuberculosis by dispensing anti-TB medications without prescriptions,» says Dr. Madhukar Pai, Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University and the paper's joint senior author.

The team at UQ, including postdoctoral research fellow Dr Siew Hoon Wong, was responsible for synthesising inhibitors of the enzymes used to modify the cholesterol by M. tuberculosis.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a promising new class of antibiotics that could aid efforts to overcome drug - resistance in tuberculosis (TB), a global killer.

«Tuberculosis has been around as long as human beings have existed,» says Professor Trude Helen Flo, Co-director of the Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

After noting the U.S. government has made major investments in scientific research, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Clinton pointedly called on other countries to do more.

Investigating this gene further, study co-author Joseph Jarvis, who is now at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research in Camden, New Jersey, found that it also confers immunity to diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.

«We now have very good and certainly much better data than before showing the incredible impact of HIV on tuberculosis and particularly TB - related deaths,» says epidemiologist Richard Chaisson, who directs the Johns Hopkins University Center for TB Research in Baltimore, Maryland, and who was not involved with the WHO report.

A research team from Spain has prepared a Cochrane Systematic Review that explores the efficacy, safety, and adherence to fixed - dose combinations (FDCs) of drugs versus single - drug formulations to treat people who are newly diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB).

Further research on host genomics is likely to identify genetic contributions to the phenotypic variability seen in tuberculosis infection, and lead to improvements in the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic interventions.

We carry out translational research programmes to develop infectious disease vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics using animal models of tuberculosis, influenza, HIV / AIDS, Clostridium difficile, meningococcal disease, chlamydia, burkholderia and anthrax, as well as emerging viral diseases such as Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever.

is a network to promote clinically oriented research in the field of tuberculosis in Europe by sharing and developing ideas and research protocols

Dr Naidoo was awarded the SA Medical Research Council post intern research scholarship in 1994, the Fogarty Ellison Research Scholarship in Global Health in 2005, and the 2013 Union Scientific Prize awarded by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Research Council post intern research scholarship in 1994, the Fogarty Ellison Research Scholarship in Global Health in 2005, and the 2013 Union Scientific Prize awarded by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung research scholarship in 1994, the Fogarty Ellison Research Scholarship in Global Health in 2005, and the 2013 Union Scientific Prize awarded by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Research Scholarship in Global Health in 2005, and the 2013 Union Scientific Prize awarded by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

The 2018 Memento Research Award for neglected diseases (donated by charitable non-governmental organizations in Germany) goes to Professor Martina Sester from Saarland University and Professor Christoph Lange from the Research Center Borstel / University of Lübeck on behalf of the Tuberculosis Network European Trialsgroup (TBNET).