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    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

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    International Conference on Tuberculosis

    World TB Day 2019

     

    The Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) is organizing with

    the CHU Saint- Pierre hospital (Brussels, Belgium)

    an International Conference on Tuberculosis

     

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    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

    anandi.martin@uclouvain.be 

    or

    christine_payen@stpierre-bru.be

     

    Please include the following details:

    Name:, title (Dr., Prof., student…), Institution and email

     

    Further questions:

    anandi.martin@uclouvain.be

    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

  • Sponsors

    Thanks to our sponsors!

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  • WHERE TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE?

    Rue Haute 322, 1000 Brussels, BELGIUM

    Room: Auditoire Bastenie (Forum)

    Rue Haute 322, 1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
    You 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.