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TDR call TB researchers
The Institute of Health and Development of the Cheikh Anta Diop University (ISED-UCAD), Dakar, Senegal, is offering scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year, start in February 2022, for a [...]
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HIV & TB: An R&D tale of two vaccines
27 January IAS (International AIDS Society) and TBVI are co-chairing a virtual satellite ‘HIV & TB: An R&D tale of two vaccines’. This virtual satellite will examine lessons learned from [...]
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Two publications with promising results about alternative routes of TB vaccine administration
To fight tuberculosis, better vaccination strategies are needed. Two recent publications demonstrate the positive effects of alternative mucosal routes of administration on the ensuing innate and [...]
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Global Roadmap for Research and Development for TB vaccines
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (aighd) is posting the Global Roadmap for R&D for TB vaccines (roadmap) that they have been developing with key stakeholders ( [...]
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Publication: “MTBVAC vaccination protects rhesus macaques against aerosol challenge with M. tuberculosis and induces immune signatures analogous to those observed in clinical studies”
Nature published the outcome of a study that demonstrated that a single intradermal vaccination with MTBVAC given to adult rhesus macaques was well tolerated and conferred a significant [...]