World Congress on Advancements in Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases April 22-23, 2019 Tokyo, Japan

Silaphet Somphavong is currently a PhD student of the École doctorale CBS2 (France), working on “Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and antibiotic resistance in Lao PDR”. This project is collaboration between the Laos, France and Vietnam. She graduated from a medical school and continued her specialist on Tropical diseases at the IFMT (in Lao PDR) in 2010. She jointed the Center for Infectiology Lao-Christophe Merieux in 2011 as a research assistant in charge of TB research.

Tropical diseases

Challa Negeri has completed his MD at the age of 24 years from University of Gondar and postgraduate studies from Addis Ababa University and University of Roehampton. He is a technical director of Challenge TB Ethiopia, a USAID-funded project implemented by KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation as a prime partner. He has been working in TB control programmes in South Sudan and Ethiopia for Global Fund and USAID TB projects for the last 12 years.

Tuberculosis

Dr. Arcot Dheenadayalu Nageswari is a Post Graduate in Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. She was Trained by Central Govt. of India in TB control (1983) She has the prestigious Fellowship award of by WHO in TB control Training at Japan and Korea 1993. She has published 20 papers in Indexed national and international journals. She has more than 25 years of Clinical Experience in Tuberculosis and Chest diseases.

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

Prof. Mandira Varma Basil is a Medical Microbiologist currently working at Vallabhbhai Patel chest Institute, Delhi, India where she is incharge of the Mycobacteriology unit . She obtained her MD in Microbiology from the University of Delhi and her DNB from the National Board of Examinations, Delhi, India. She is the recipient of the Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) Overseas Associateship and the Indian Council of Medical Research International Fellowship. Her main areas of interest include TB diagnosis, drug resistance in M. tuberculosis, molecular epidemiology of M. tuberculosis and non tuberculous mycobacteria. Dr. Varma-Basil has several publications and book chapters to her credit.

Mycobacteriology, TB diagnosis, drug resistance in M. tuberculosis, molecular epidemiology of M. tuberculosis and non tuberculous mycobacteria

Zakaria received a PhD degree from the University Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) in 1993. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and was the recipient of Scholarship Awards from the Michael Smith Foundation of Health Research and the TB Vet Foundation. Ongoing research in Zakaria’s lab focuses on developing novel gene manipulation technologies to upgrade the current BCG vaccine in order to maximize the induction of protective TB immunity. Of equal importance to the vaccine project, a biology-based study of Mtb persistence has revealed important virulence factors that represent attractive drug targets that could be used for TB treatment.

Tuberculosis, Infectious Diseases