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SUDOCU headline results presented at CROI

On Tuesday 20 February 2023 our PanACEA colleague Dr Norbert Heinrich presented the headline-results from the PanACEA SUDOCU study at the 30th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle – the largest and most important conference on  HIV and related conditions such as tuberculosis. SUDOCU investigated safety and efficacy of varying doses of…

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PanACEA & SimpliciTB Annual Meeting, Mangochi, Malawi, 20th-22nd September 2022

Finally, after 2 years due to COVID-19, the PanACEA and SimpliciTB family were reunited in Malawi, hosted by Dr Marriott Nliwasa, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences at Makokola Retreat, Mangochi.  The hospitality and organisation of all of the teams made it  a very successful and enjoyable meeting. PanACEA The first day started with a variety…

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STATUS update: SUDOCU completed recruitment!

The PanACEA SUDOCU study completed its recruitment: a total of 75 participants were randomized to 5 arms (15 participants each) with a wide range of sutezolid doses (from 0mg to 800mg BID given over three months). With this open-label, randomized, phase 2B, dose selection study (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT03959566) we aim to describe the safety/tolerability-exposure relationship…

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Shorter treatment may be possible with higher rifampicin doses

An interview with prof. dr. Martin Boeree A considerably higher dose of the anti-tuberculosis drug rifampicin has been found to be safe according to a recent publication by PanACEA. Higher dosing of rifampicin may lead to a shorter / more efficacious treatment for tuberculosis with less resistance development. With this finding PanACEA researchers complete a…

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Can Calculus Help Tuberculosis Treatment?

The St Andrews group’s most recent paper has been published as a perspective piece in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.The collaboration between the Schools of Medicine, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science provides an overview of the different types of model that can be applied to tuberculosis clinical trials.  Importantly, it provides a…

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Community engagement workshop

In the afternoon of 20th of February a ninety minutes interactive workshop on community engagement was held. The inspiring Erica Sanga, Community Engagement Coordinator at NIMR Mwanza, Tanzania, led the workshop. During this workshop, participants from different sites shared their experiences and challenges on community engagement activities. Participants discussed their best practices for successful engagement…

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SimpliciTB General Assembly F2F

Delegates from all of our collaborators in SimpliciTB TB travelled from across the world to attend the annual face to face General Assembly (GA) meeting in Mbeya, Tanzania. Trial progress was reported, with a focus on recruitment and medical monitoring. An important development was the launch of the Capacity Development programme that allows members of…

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PanACEA Annual Meeting 2020

For the 10th annual face to face meeting the PanACEA consortium came together in Mbeya, Tanzania, on 19-20 February 2020. This year our partner Mbeya Medical Research Centre (NIMR MMRC) hosted the event. The warm hospitality and great organisation of the team made for a very positive meeting environment. We were off to a great…

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PanACEA General Assembly

Monday 9th of December the PanACEA General Assembly (GA) met again for its quarterly assembly to report and discuss the progress of the project. The first phase of the BTZ043 trial has started at the end of November at UCTLI and TASK Applied Science. Preparations for the SUDOCU and PHENORIF trials are progressing. Next time,…

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Press Release

The new drug substance BTZ043 is being tested on patients for the first time in a Phase II study performed by the PanACEA consortium. The trial is carried out in Cape Town, South Africa at TASK Applied Science Clinical Research Centre and the University of Cape Town Lung Institute (UCTLI). The study is funded by…

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