How latent is "latent" tuberculosis? UCL-TB summer seminar
19 August 2015, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Location
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Medawar G02 Watson LT, UCL WC1E 6BT
The first UCL-TB seminar will be presented by Hanif Esmail.
Dr Hanif Esmail is a physician specializing in Infectious Disease in Oxford and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. He has recently completed a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship where his doctoral research focused on improving understanding of HIV-associated latent tuberculosis infection, specifically on the characterisation of subclinical disease through the modalities of FDG-PET/CT imaging, transcriptomics and immunology.