Andrea Zelmer
I am currently working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Immunology Unit) on a project to develop a reporter imaging system to test the efficacy of TB drugs.
The project is funded for 2 years by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be based in the School's Category 3 facility, and the LSHTM team will lead a consortium which also includes the Barts and the London NHS Trust, Imperial College, London, the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), based in Heraklion, Crete. The research aims to develop a straightforward, affordable imaging system which will help to find and identify new, efficient drugs for TB, especially those which act against latent or persistent bacteria, which are found in 90% of affected people.
Professor Schaible (main grant holder) says: 'We are delighted to have received this funding. We will now be able to establish the first ever imaging system of its kind in the world, which will be based here at the School, and which will enable us to track what happens to bacteria after treatment, and thereby learn more about which drugs work best in the fight against tuberculosis'.
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/news/2008/gatesfunding.html
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/topics/Pages/tuberculosis.aspx
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/london-school-hygiene-tuberculosis-hiv-malaria-080307.aspx
Supervisors: Dr. Greg Bancroft and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schaible
Address: Immunology Unit
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
UK
The project is funded for 2 years by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be based in the School's Category 3 facility, and the LSHTM team will lead a consortium which also includes the Barts and the London NHS Trust, Imperial College, London, the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), based in Heraklion, Crete. The research aims to develop a straightforward, affordable imaging system which will help to find and identify new, efficient drugs for TB, especially those which act against latent or persistent bacteria, which are found in 90% of affected people.
Professor Schaible (main grant holder) says: 'We are delighted to have received this funding. We will now be able to establish the first ever imaging system of its kind in the world, which will be based here at the School, and which will enable us to track what happens to bacteria after treatment, and thereby learn more about which drugs work best in the fight against tuberculosis'.
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/news/2008/gatesfunding.html
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/topics/Pages/tuberculosis.aspx
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/london-school-hygiene-tuberculosis-hiv-malaria-080307.aspx
Supervisors: Dr. Greg Bancroft and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schaible
Address: Immunology Unit
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
UK
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