On 5th July 2023, ERA4TB hosted a workshop at the 19th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology held in Glasgow, Scotland. The workshop, called ‘ERA4TB- Closing the gap between early bacterial activity and clinical cure’, included sessions on:
- Novel in vitro tools to inform pre-clinical and clinical progression of TB combination therapy
- Treatment relapse: interaction between the immune system and anti-tubercular drugs
- Selection of companion drugs and dose rationale for combination therapy
- Modelling of the immune response and prediction of treatment relapse
- Understanding drug distribution in lung tissue, lesion and granulomas
The session was chaired by ERA4TB In Vivo work package lead, Santiago Ramon Garcia, ARAID Investigator, ARAID Foundation/University of Zaragoza, Spain, and Modelling and Simulation work package lead, Prof. Oscar Della Pasqua, National Research Council (CNR), Italy.
For more information visit: ERA4TB – Closing the gap between early bacterial activity and clinical cure (wcp2023.org)
