Faculty of Health Sciences hosts Symposium on TB Elimination
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Faculty Symposium on TB Elimination to be held on Thursday 23 March 2017
The Faculty of Health Sciences and the Office of Research & Postgraduate Affairs will host a Symposium for Interdisciplinary Research for TB Elimination to profile the work being done at Wits to eliminate, treat and better understand the disease. The Symposium is being held to commemorate World TB Day on 24 March 2017.
Wits researchers have made significant inroads in understanding more about TB. Most recently researchers from DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB research (CBTBR) at Wits published landmark studies revealing profound insights into the way the TB mycobacteria grows and mutates and greater insight into the complexity of successful treatment in tuberculosis patients.
Professor Bavesh Kana, Co-Director DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research will present these studies as part of his talk entitled: " Can we find all the bacteria?". He will be joined by several other researchers and clinicians who are experts in their fields.
The symposium will be held on Thursday 23 March 2017 at 17h30 for 18h00 at The Adler Museum of Medicine. RSVP to adler.museum@wits.ac.za
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Speaker |
Topic |
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Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi DVC : Research & Maria Papathanasopoulos, Assistant Dean: Research and Postgraduate Affairs |
Symposium opening |
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Prof. Lesley Scott in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology |
TB and Big Data Analysis |
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Dr Neil Martinson, Deputy Executive Director of Perinatal HIV Research Unit |
HIV and TB |
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Prof. Bavesh Kana Co-Director DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research |
Can we find all the bacteria? |
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Puleng Marokane , Program Manager at NHLS |
Implementation of GeneXpert |
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Dr Nokuphiwa Mvuna; Sub-investigator at Clinical HIV Research Unit(Wits Health Consortium). |
Drug resistant TB: NIX and STREAM trials. |
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Salome Charalambous , Research Director Aurum Institute(tbc) |
TB in congregate settings |
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Prof. Claire Penn, Professor of Speech Pathology & Audiology |
Communication and TB: The missing link in the chain of care. |