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From 9 to 11 May 2018, PredictTB partners from Africa, USA, Europe and China came together in Stellenbosch, South Africa, for their first annual progress meeting.
From 12 to 14 March 2018, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM hosted the second annual meeting of the ScreenTB consortium in Banjul. After two successful years, the consortium met to jointly assess progress, discuss current challenges, and plan for the final year of the project.
The network managers of IMPRINT and its sister Networks VALIDATE Network, IntVetVac, HIC-Vac, and BactiVac joined forces during the British Society for Immunology (BSI) meeting in Brighton, UK, from 4-7 December 2017.
On Friday, 20 October 2017, the Tuberculosis Network Clinical Trials group TBnet and Research Center Borstel hosted an international Symposium on MDR-TB in Europe.
With an initial investment of US$460m from the governments of Germany, Japan and Norway, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, and with strong backing by major pharmaceutical corporations, CEPI – the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations was officially launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos January 19, 2017.
