It’s TIME!
International Conference on Tuberculosis
Thursday March 21st 2019
WORLD TB DAY 2019
Scientific research progress:
new strategies for TB diagnosis and treatment
21st March 2019
Organizing committee
The objective of this conference is to gather leading international TB experts from universities and research institutions to promote scientific exchange and discuss progress and relevant work directions to fight tuberculosis. We are pleased to invite you to attend this conference titled: “Scientific research progress: new strategies for TB diagnosis and treatment”.
Organizing committee
Dr. Anandi Martin, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium)
Dr. Marie-Christine Payen, CHU Saint Pierre (Brussels, Belgium)
Prof. Stéphane De Wit, CHU Saint Pierre (Brussels, Belgium)
Location & time
March 21st 2019; 9h00-18h00
CHU Saint Pierre
Rue Haute 322, 1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
Room: Auditoire Bastenie
Registration
Registration is free but obligatory (with limited places) until March 10th 2019
You can register by sending an email to
or
christine_payen@stpierre-bru.be
Please include the following details:
Name:, title (Dr., Prof., student…), Institution and email
Further questions:
Feel free to circulate this program to anyone interested.
We look forward to welcoming you to Brussels,
Dr. Anandi Martin, Dr. Marie-Christine Payen, Prof. Stéphane de Wit
Preliminary programme
09h00-9h15: Registration
9h15-9h30
Welcome
Dr. Anandi Martin
Dr. Marie-Christine Payen
Prof. Stéphane De Wit
9h30-10h00
is Europe on track to End tuberculosis?
Dr. Masoud Dara
WHO Europe
10h00-10h20
EU funding
Dr. Hannu Laang
European commission, Scientific officer
10h20-10h40
New Sanatorium Brussels
Dr. Marie-Christine Payen
(CHU St Pierre-Belgium)
10h40-11h00
Treatment of TB in Belgium: a patient centred, multidisciplinary approach with a crossover between hospital-based and ambulatory care
Dr. Wouter Arrazola de Oñate
(Belgian Lung and Tuberculosis Association BELTA, Brussels)
11h00-11h30 Coffee break
11h30-12h00
Simplifying NGS approaches to optimize tracing of transborder spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dr. Darío García-de-Viedma
(Gregorio Marañón University Hospital & CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain)
12h00-12h30
WGS nanopore: fighting TB in Madagascar with real time portable DNA sequencing
Dr. Marie Sylvianne Rabodoarivelo
(Institut Pasteur Madagascar)
12h30-13h00
WGS in China: preliminary experience
Dr. Howard Takiff
(Institut Pasteur, France)
13h00-13h15
bioMérieux/Applied Maths
13h15-14h00 Lunch
14h00-14h30
Implementation of WGS for the Belgian surveillance of TB
Dr. Vanessa Mathys
(Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium)
14h30-15h00
New candidate vaccines against TB: review of recent clinical efficacy results
Dr. Olivier Van Der Meeren
(GSK Research and Development Center, Rixensart, Belgium)
15h00-15h30
MTBVAC: From the lab to clinical efficacy trials in endemic countries
Prof. Carlos Martin
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-16h30
Drug resistance tuberculosis: progress and challenges
Dr. Anandi Martin
(UCLouvain, Belgium)
16h30-17h00
Recent developments in the treatment of tuberculosis
Dr. Christian Lienhardt
(WHO & Institute of Research for Development, Montpellier, France.)
17h00-17h30
Stage-specific immune biomarkers along the spectrum of M. tuberculosis infection in adults
Prof. Françoise Mascart
(ULB Hospital Erasme)
17h30-18h00
Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in infants and children: new immunological approaches
Dr. Alexandra Dreesman
(CHU St Pierre-Belgium)
18h00-18h15
Final conclusion
Dr. Anandi Martin
Dr. Marie-Christine Payen
Prof. Stéphane De Wit
WHERE TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE?
Rue Haute 322, 1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
Room: Auditoire Bastenie (Forum)
Rue Haute 322, 1000 Brussels, BELGIUMYou have to enter through "Rue Haute, 322" and after the entrance, the forum is on the left, at the top of an outside staircase. You will see a sign outside.
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