A new consortium co-led by Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $31 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to accelerate the development of faster, more effective treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB).
Weill Cornell Medicine Jul 10 2024 A new consortium co-led by Weill Cornell Medicine , has been awarded a five-year, $31 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to accelerate the development of faster, more effective treatment regimens for tuberculosis . Investigators at the University of California, San Francisco; Johns Hopkins Medicine ; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center comprise the other co-leads.
Dr. Dirk Schnappinger, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine and one of the study's four co-principal investigators "Symptoms improve relatively quickly, and there is a temptation not to continue therapy as directed," he said. Limited resources in the lower-income countries where TB is most prevalent may compound these challenges.
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