TAMANEWSLETTER The
Gambia
Unit
TAMA: Wolof.
n.
a talking drum
VOL: 11 ISSUE: 04 / 2012
The
Gambia
Unit
Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia
TB programme grant
success for Professor
Beate Kampmann and
team
Tuberculosis causes significant morbidity and...
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TAMANEWSLETTER The
Gambia
Unit
TAMA: Wolof.
n.
a talking drum
VOL: 11 ISSUE: 04 / 2012
The
Gambia
Unit
Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia
TB programme grant
success for Professor
Beate Kampmann and
team
Tuberculosis causes significant morbidity and mortality
in children worldwide.
Bacteriological confirmation of
TB in children is rare and lack of suitable alternative
diagnostics is a major bottleneck to progress in trials of
new vaccines and therapies.
Professor Beate Kampmann (Theme Leader – Vaccinology) and colleagues
have recently won a five-year MRC programme grant to develop a novel
“toolbox” for the understanding of childhood TB by integrating prospective
data from epidemiology, molecular biology and immune signatures derived
from children in household cohorts.
Local co-investigators will further
develop tools based on both host immune response and microbiology
and work with new external collaborators, who are highly experienced in
modelling and cost effectiveness ana
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