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UCTRAC Launches

NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES IN TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH

UCTRAC (UCSF-UCB Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center) announces new funding and resource opportunities for new-to-TB investigators, including:



Deadline for Voucher and Mentored Scientist Awards: February 27, 2023

Consultant Service available on a rolling basis. Applications open to UCSF and UC Berkeley. 

Email info@uctrac.org or find more info at www.uctrac.org

UCTRAC Website

World TB Day 2023

REGISTRATION

Join us in-person or via zoom for our annual World TB Day on March 24, 2023 with our co-host UCSF's Curry International Tuberculosis Center.


Our World TB Day 2023 theme will be The Many Faces of the TB Community: Partnership between patients, researchers, and advocates. The program will feature talks and panel discussions by local and international leaders in TB research, policy, clinical and programmatic practice, and advocacy.


WTBD 2023 Keynote Speaker: Achilles Katamba, PhD, MBChB, MS

Makerere University | Kampala, Uganda


Registration is limited to 100 people - please note confirmation of registration is delivered via email.

Register for WTBD

Mentored Scientist Awards in TB

Resource Allocation Program Mentored Scientist Awards, co-sponsored by the Center for Tuberculosis TB RAMP and UCTRAC, are mentoring and training grants available to UCSF and UCB early-stage or new-to-TB investigators.


Awardees will receive a $40,000 grant for their project and will automatically be enrolled in the TB Research and Mentoring Program (TB RAMP) as a TB RAMP Scholar.


With funding from an NIH Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Supplement to TB RAMP, we created a mentored research award for investigators from historically disenfranchised racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in health sciences. More information below.

Mentored Under-Represented Scientist in TB
Mentored Scientist   in TB

Mentored Scientist Awards in HIV:

CFAR offers RAP awards, including Pilot Award, Mentored Science Award, and International Mentored Scientist Award due February 27 through the RAP Portal.

Honoring John Murray

March 30, 2023 | 8am - 5pm

Fisher Banquet Room at UCSF Mission Bay Campus

A special symposium will be held to cover the significant contributions of Dr. Murray's career and is open to UCSF faculty and fellows (current and former).


The symposium is co-chaired by Drs. Phil Hopewell and Courtney Broaddus. For more information, including the program, click on the link below.

Murray Symposium Registration

Congratulations

UCSF's Curry International TB Center

The Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) has been awarded to serve as a TB Center of Excellence for Training, Education, and Medical Consultation (TB COE) for the US Western Region for another 5-year funding cycle through 2027 with the CDC.

CITC Website

Save The Date 

Upcoming Events

UCSF CTB Happy Hour @ Union NAR

February 23, 2023 | 5:30pm

Joey Restaurant

820 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC


The Center for Tuberculosis invites UCSF colleagues and their guests to join us at a happy hour during the Union NAR. Join Lisa Chen, Priya Shete, Devan Jaganath, Jenny Flood, and others at Union NAR! Registration for Union NAR.


RSVP to the CTB Happy Hour via email to Sophie Huddart

PacTB Conference 2023

March 30-31, 2023 | UC Berkeley


Pre-Registration now open.


The Pacific Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Host-Response Research (PacTB) is a project of UC Berkeley, University of Washington, and OHSU. More information on registration fees, speaker line-up, and submission guidelines to follow.

Announcements

Andrew Kerkhoff, MD, PhD



Congratulations on receiving CFAR's Mentored Scientist Award through the Resource Allocation Program for Systematic testing for HIV and tuberculosis among community members attending social drinking venues in Lusaka, Zambia.

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Ada Kwan, PhD



is part of a team who analyzed SARS-CoV-2 surveillance data from December 2021 to May 2022 across 35 California state prisons and considered how vaccines and natural infection changed the infectiousness of COVID-19. Read their publication in Nature Medicine.

Read Publication

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

NIAID Program Officer: Tuberculosis and other Mycobacterial Section, Respiratory Diseases Branch

See job announcement below and email Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandra with questions.

NIAID Program Officer

2023 TB-related Conferences

CROI | Feb 19-22 | Seattle, WA

Conference on Retroviruses & Opportunistic Infections


Union NAR | Feb 22-25 | Vancouver, BC

The Union North America Region Registration


GVIRF | Mar 28-30 | South Korea

Global Vaccine & Immunization Research Forum


ECCMID | Apr 15-18 | Denmark

European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases


ATS | May 19-24 | Washington, DC

American Thoracic Society


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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