About Emory TB Center
The mission of the Emory TB Center is to help achieve a world free from tuberculosis (TB) by enhancing TB-related basic biomedical, epidemiological, clinical, translational, and public health research, service and practice. To accomplish this mission, the Emory TB Center maintains a number of established partnerships with local departments of health, the metro-Atlanta community, other institutions in the state of Georgia, as well as other national and international partners in India, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Georgia. The Center seeks to facilitate a collaborative environment for successful funding applications, give students and postdoctoral trainees exposure to interdisciplinary and practicum opportunities, engage with professionals in clinical and public health practice, and raise public awareness of TB, and related comorbidities, as a major global health problem in need of attention.
Focus areas
The focus areas of the Emory TB Center include, but are not limited to:
- Improving rapid diagnosis and clinical management of people with TB disease, drug resistant TB, and latent TB infection
- Molecular epidemiology
- Basic research on mechanisms of pathogenesis and immunity to TB
- Nonhuman primate models of TB and treatment
- Human immunology, immune correlates of protection and TB biomarkers
- TB vaccine research
- Drug resistance, with special attention to multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB
- TB comorbidities and confections (e.g. HIV, diabetes, helminths)
- TB transmission research
- Implementation research
- Local and global collaborative projects
- TB education and mentorship for TB research
Emory TB Center Co-Directors
- Neel Gandhi
- Ken Castro
- Jyothi Rengarajan
Emory TB Center Steering Committee
- Henry Blumberg
- Cheryl Day
- David Holland
- Susan Ray
- Russell Kempker
- Lisa Cranmer
- Sarita Shah
