Our 2019 event tookÌýplace on Friday, 22nd March at the and was a joint collaboration between Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, our hosts at the Crick, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
This year, we were veryÌýexcited to partner with institutions in the USA and Vietnam to make the symposium a truly global event.Ìý Events began inÌýLondon, and towards the end of our day, as the American West Coast woke up, we had an extendedÌýhandover to San Francisco.Ìý The UCSF event ended at 5pm their time and a symposium in Hanoi completed the marathon symposium.
Full details of the speaker programme are below.Ìý Recordings of the talks are accessible via the following links:
- Dr Eric Goosby ()
- Dr Nim Pathy, Prof Taane Clark, Dr ClaudioÌýKöser ()
- Dr Myrsini Kaforou, Dr Rishi Gupta, Dr Susanne Herbst ()
- Prof Robert Wilkinson,ÌýDr Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Dr Pete Dodd, Dr Peter MacPherson, Dr Delia Boccia, Dr Lucy Thomas ()
- Transatlantic session includingÌýDr Bob Wachter, Dr Payam Nahid, Dr Nguyen Viet Nhung, Prof Dame Sally Davies, Dr Richard Pan, Prof Liz Corbett andÌýProf Adithya CattamanchiÌý()
8.45-9.15am | Registration and coffee |
9.15-9.25am | Welcome addressÌýÌý Ìý (LSHTM)Ìý |
9.25-9.50am | Lancet Commission on TB |
9.50-10.30am | Session 1: Antimicrobial resistance (LSHTM) What can whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis tell us? (University of Cambridge) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’. Defining susceptibility and resistance to anti-TB drugs. |
10.30-11.00am | Coffee and networking breakÌý |
11.00am-12:00pmÌý | Session 2: TB pathophysiology & diagnostic biomarkers (Imperial College) Host RNA biomarkers for TB: challenges and future directions (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø) Predicting incident tuberculosis: Can the transcriptome supplant the T-cell response? (Francis Crick Institute) The role of the Parkinson's Disease kinase LRRK2 in innate immune responses to M. tuberculosis |
12.00-1.15pm | Lunch breakÌý |
1.15-1.55pm | Session 3: Vaccines and clinical trials (Imperial College and Francis Crick Institute) Vaccination against tuberculosis (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø) TB preventive therapy: gaps and opportunities in the programmatic management of latent TBÌýinfection |
1.55-3.00pmÌý | Session 4: Determinants of mortality |
3.00-3.30pm | Coffee and networking breakÌý |
3.30-3.45pmÌý | Welcome to UCSF and summary of the Hanoi symposium (UCSF) (UCSF) (Vietnam National Lung Hospital and NTP) |
3.45-4.00pmÌý | Address: TB and the antimicrobial resistance agenda (UK Department of Health & Social Care) TB and the Antimicrobial Resistance Agenda |
4.00-4.30pm | Keynote address (California State Senator) |
4.30-5.25pmÌý | Debate: Make TB prevention great again! ÌýThis house believes treatment of LTBI should not be a high priority for low resource settings (LSHTM) In favour (UCSF) Against |
5.25-7.00pm | Final thanks and handover to UCSF, followed by drinks reception |