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Successful project completion
Aiming to advance tuberculosis (TB) treatment standards from the current practice of "one-size-fits-all" to precision-guided individualised therapy, the PredictTB research team led by Prof. Gerhard Walzl (Stellenbosch University in South Africa) and Prof. Clifton Barry III (US National Institutes of Health) set out in 2017 to investigate a set of c...
Interview with Simon Mendelsohn, Clinical Researcher at SATVI
Simon Mendelsohn had an interest in working in the medical field already at an early age, shifting between wanting to pursue a career in medical science and working as a medical doctor. “I had very good role models, three of my grandparents were medical doctors. Especially one of my grandmothers who devoted her life to caring for people with inte...
PredictTB Final Meeting
The PredictTB consortium carries out a large-scale clinical study with close to 700 participants in China and South Africa to find and validate biomarkers that can identify tuberculosis (TB) patients who can be cured with shorter treatment. PredictTB provides a wealth of clinical, imaging and microbiological data One key topic of discussion dur...
PredictTB Learning Board: A new online platform to strengthen capacity building activities
The PredictTB consortium works actively to design and promote training and networking opportunities for early-career researchers involved with the study. This work is spearheaded by the team working with WP4, Capacity Building, Networking and Dissemination, led by Prof Novel Chegou and Dr Fanie Malherbe of Stellenbosch University. On April 29, th...
How the PredictTB Student Presentation Session fits into the project’s broader Capacity Building work
Science communication is becoming an increasingly important skill to master for people involved in science. In the context of PredictTB’s Work Package 4 – Capacity Building, Networking, Dissemination – a presentation session was organized on October 7, 2021. The session provided a platform for early-career researchers in the PredictTB consortium to...
PredictTB Annual Meeting 2021
The PredictTB consortium held its fourth annual meeting virtually on October 13-14, 2021. The goal of the meeting was to take stock of the project’s progress over the last year and make plans for the final nine months ahead – the project will come to an end in July 2022. While on the first day of the meeting the whole consortium gathered, the sec...
MERM: A device to aid patient treatment adherence
Adherence to prescribed treatment is a critical component for tuberculosis (TB) patients’ prospect of cure. MERM, short for Medication Event Reminder-Monitor, is an ongoing sub-study of PredicTB that aims to aid patient treatment adherence. Each participant in the PredictTB study receives a MERM box, a device that stores the participants’ pills and...
World Tuberculosis Day 2021: The Clock Is Ticking
Today is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is recognized on March 24 each year. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes TB. The first World TB Day was held one century later – in 1982. World TB Day serves to raise public awareness about the devastating h...