Register for World TB Symposium on Medical Campus March 22-23
Boston University School of Medicine; Boston Medical Center, Section of Infectious Diseases; and the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are co-sponsoring the World TB Day Symposium March 22-23 on the Boston University Medical Campus. World TB Day is officially March 24, and it celebrates the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch in 1882. On March 24, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release the latest data on global and U.S. tuberculosis epidemiology. This is the fourth year that TB investigators from the northeast have gathered for a scientific meeting to present their very latest research.
This symposium differs from all other World TB meetings being held in that all presenters are principal investigators and leaders in TB research. Previous meetings have been at the Trudeau Institute, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the Wadsworth Institute. The Potts Foundation has provided financial support to defray the costs for the participants.
This two-day Symposium is an opportunity to convene with peers and share insights and progress in the fight against Tuberculosis. The Symposium will cover advances in Global and Translational Sciences; Prevention; Diagnosis; Treatment; Host Response and Pathogen Biology. Nearly 100 participants have already registered for the conference.
Symposium committee members include: Andrea Cooper, PhD, Trudeau Institute; Jerrold Ellner, MD, Boston University School of Medicine; Marila Gennaro, MD, Public Health Research Institute; Igor Kramnik, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine; Kathleen McDonough, PhD, Wadsworth Center.
Registration is complimentary to meeting attendees. Please visit http://www.bumc.bu.edu/id/events/ to register and for more details.