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February 2024 newsletter - read online

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November 2023 newsletter - read online

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September 2023 newsletter - read online

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News
- UN High Level Meeting on the Fight against Tuberculosis
- AHRI Wellcome Trust funding renewed
- PanACEA Step2c trial starts
- Japan-UK visit
People
- Professor Lele Rangaka / UKRI award
- Professor Ibrahim Abubakar award
- Rishi Gupta awarded NIHR Advanced Fellowship
- New UCL-TB members
  - Deborah Bennet
  - Chris Daniel
Events
- Upcoming events
  - TBnet / UCL-TB webinar
  - AHRI Lekgotlas for September and October
  - LSHTM event: Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
  - Seminars at The Crick
  - TB Journal Club
- Recent
  - Fri 16 June 2023: Launch event - UCL WHO Collaborating Centre for TB Research & Innovation
  - Fri 30 June 2023: Workshop event - Bedaquiline and TB: What might the future hold?
Opportunities
- 2 Graduate Research Assistant posts
Resources
- WHO TB research tracker
- Engaging with International Policymakers
- TB sequencing pipeline resources
- The UCL-TB YouTube Channel
- The UCL-TB website
Recent publications
- Peer-reviewed publications

June 2023 newsletter - read online

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News
- UCL institute named UK’s first WHO Collaborating Centre for TB
- UNITE4TB
  - UCL Sponsor flagship PARADIGM4TB trial
  - Community-centred research webinar
People
- New UCL-TB members
  - Ana García Mingo
  - Ilaria Motta
  - Dominic Wakerley
Events
- Upcoming events
  - Fri 16 June 2023: Launch event - UCL WHO Collaborating Centre for TB Research & Innovation
  - Fri 30 June 2023: Workshop event - Bedaquiline and TB: What might the future hold?
  - Fri 07 July 2023: Meeting - START 2023: Stewardship, Treatment, Antimicrobial Resistance & Transmission
  - Seminars at The Crick
  - AHRI Lekgotlas
  - TB Journal Club
- Recent
  - 21 Mar: FMS Public lecture series "Tuberculosis, technology and global health"
  - 24 March: World TB Day Symposium 2023
Blogs
- Learning to embrace the blips: the highs and lows of running workshops by Linzy Elton
- Challenges of combatting tuberculosis in Gabon by Pacome Abdul
Resources
- New
  - WHO TB research tracker
- Previously listed
  - Engaging with International Policymakers
  - TB sequencing pipeline resources
  - The UCL-TB YouTube Channel
  - The UCL-TB website
Recent publications
- Peer-reviewed publications

March 2023 newsletter - read online

In this newsletter:

News
- TB treatment
  - TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial results published
  - TRUNCATE clinical trial results published
People
- Baroness Sue Masham
- New UCL-TB members
  - Ayşenur Kılıç
  - Annabelle South
  - Asad Zaidi
Events
- Upcoming events
  - Mon 20 March: Public engagement event "Breaking Barriers in Science"
  - Tues 21 March: FMS Public lecture series "Tuberculosis, technology and global health"
  - Wed 22 March: All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB reception at the House of Lords
  - Thurs 23: Steve Lawn Memorial Lecture at LSHTM
  - Fri 24 Mar: UCL-TB/ LSHTM World TB Day Symposium
  - Wed 26 March: UCL Microbiology Domain Symposium
  - Wed 14th June, UCL-TB networking meeting
  - TB Journal Club
- Recent
  - 15 Mar: AHRI Lekgotla
  - 10 March: Briefing for Academics & Healthcare Workers on the upcoming 2023 UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on TB
  - 4 January: Karen Jacobson webinar on Substance use in TB
  - 5 December 2022: UCL-TB networking meeting (Talks now available online)
  - 21 November: Webinar – TB screening: Policies, practices, challenges and opportunities
Resources
- Engaging with International Policymakers
- TB sequencing pipeline resources
- The UCL-TB YouTube Channel
- The UCL-TB website
Recent publications
- Peer-reviewed publications

November 2022 newsletter - read online

In this newsletter:

News
- TB treatment - ZeNix clinical trial success published
- Taking TB sequencing on the road
- UNITE4TB site visits
- PanACEA in Malawi
People
- Professor Sir Ali Zumla receives Manson Award
- Louis Grandjean receives Wellcome Career Development Award
- Charlotte Jones – in memory
- AHRI visitor
- PhD awarded
- Commonwealth scholarship PhD studentship
- Julio Ortiz Canseco moving to the Crick
Events
- Upcoming
  - Mon 21 November 2022, Webinar – TB screening: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Opportunities
  - 8-11 November 2022, Union meeting
  - Monday 5th December, UCL TB networking meeting
  - January 2023, UCL-TB open webinar - Karen Jacobson
  - TB Journal Club
- Recent
  - 22 July – UCL-TB networking meeting: Talks now available online
Resources
- WHO Global TB Report 2022
Recent publications
- Featured papers
- Reports and other outputs
- Peer-reviewed publications