The Pai Global TB Group is featured on CIHR’s Celebrating Health Research storybook project, to celebrate Canada 150. Along with our team feature, discover how and why health researchers are changing lives, and hear firsthand from the patients whose lives have been affected by health research.
Prof. Madhukar Pai elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
On September 14th, Madhu was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in an event that took place in Ottawa. Fellows of the Academy are elected on the basis of their demonstrated leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advance academic health sciences. Congratulations!
New blog post from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest blog published in Nature Microbiology “In Desperate Need” on what patients with drug resistant TB face, and how this could change (for the better).
McGill TB Centre Travel Awards – Deadline October 4
Established in 2015 and co-sponsored by McGill Global Health Programs, there be will a total of 6 travel awards of up to $1,500 each per year. These awards are specifically for trainees (students and postdoctoral fellows) in the fields of Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial research, and will be used for traveling (e.g. registration and travel expenses) to present their own research at national and international scientific meetings and/or conferences. The current competition is now open (apply here), and the deadline is October 4th.
Apply today: Postdoctoral fellowship in Global Health Diagnostics
Applications are invited from recent PhD or MD graduates for a one year, full-time fellowship in the Pai Global TB Research Group, starting in Fall 2017. Interested applicants should submit an application via email, consisting of a cover letter (including a statement of research interests and prior experience in diagnostics), Curriculum Vitae, contact information of 2 relevant referees, along with 3 sample diagnostics publications to madhukar.pai@mcgill.ca. To see the full description of the postdoctoral fellowship, click here.
Welcome back to Tripti Pande
We’re very pleased to welcome back Tripti in our group! She’ll be joining as a Project Manager September 5th. To find out more about her background, check out our team page.
New article in Let’s Talk TB from Amrita Daftary
Read the latest article “Monitoring and Improving Adherence to Tuberculosis Medications” from Amrita, published in the GP Clinics Supplement Let’s Talk TB.
New paper on the implementation of Xpert
Congratulations to Danielle and our team – past and present – on their new paper “Implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF in 22 high tuberculosis burden countries: are we making progress?” published in the European Respiratory Journal!
New blog post from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest blog post in Nature Microbiology “Tapping Bollywood to improve sanitation in India“.
Maddee Nash’s paper covered in Science Speaks
Maddee’s Lancet Global Health paper “Use of the GeneXpert tuberculosis system for HIV viral load testing in India” has been covered by Science Speaks, a widely read global infectious diseases news website. Congratulations to Maddee and her co-authors!