On January 25 – 28 the final PanACEA I meeting was held in Alpbach, Austria. PanACEA members of 11 countries (Belgium, Gabon, Germany, Great Britain, Kenya, Mozambique South Africa, Tanzania, The Netherlands, Uganda, and Zambia) attended the meeting. The newest results of the clinical studies, master and PhD studies and capacity development updates were presented.…
On March 24, 2014, Michael Hoelscher (LMU) presented “Advances in New TB Drug Development”, Tim McHugh (UCL) “Approaches to Monitoring Therapy” and Patrick Phillips (MRC CTU) “Drug Resistance vs. Drug Sensitive Trials “ at the “World TB Day – Reach the 3 Million” in London (www.who.int/campaigns/tb-day/2014/en). This conference, which was a joint venture between University…
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On March 24 (on World TB Day), the MAMS TB-01 Study has completed enrolment ahead of schedule! We congratulate and thank everybody in achieving this goal prior to the target cut-off date of 31 March 2014. 365 patients have been enrolled in 4 South African and 3 Tanzanian sites.
PanACEA, the Pan-African Consortium for the Evaluation of Antituberculosis Antibiotics aims to develop TB regimens that significantly shorten treatment duration, funded by EDCTP. The consortium’s most recent phase IIb study (MAMS-TB-01) uses an innovative adaptive clinical trial design that allows the efficient evaluation of multiple regimens by incorporating interim analyses that allow for the early…
Clinical Ink, in collaboration with PanACEA, received an award for their SureSource platform, a tablet-based system that allows onsite capturing
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PanACEA investigators collaborate on comprehensive TB drug development review for Lancet Infectious Diseases special issue for World TB Day. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970328-1/fulltext#
Last fall, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the latest global report on tuberculosis (TB). It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of the progress made in TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country level, using data reported by 197 countries and territories that account collectively for…
PanACEA is excited to announce that all seven participating sites in the MAMS study
The 5th Annual PanACEA Meeting has been held on Ile de Gorée / Dakar, Senegal from 19-21 Oct 2013, just preceeding the 7th EDCTP Forum. Inspite of a couple of logistical challenges with colleagues travelling from all corners of Africa, Europe and the US to Gorée island the meeting has been a great success. PanACEA…
