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About Us

Launched on September 2022, ADVANCE-TB COST Action (CA21164) aims to address the complexity of tuberculosis (TB) management. ADVANCE-TB is a research network that offers opportunities for collaboration between clinicians, academic researchers from interdisciplinary backgrounds, industry and non-governmental organizations with the aim of advancing TB research.

This is us

Passionate. Committed. Positive.

ADVANCE-TB has more than 250 members coming from 47 different countries worldwide and we keep growing. So far we have 67 members in Working Group (WG) 1, 147 in WG2, 133 in WG3 and 66 in WG4. Our Management Committee consists of 43 members from 24 countries. 

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The following are the 9 members with leading roles. Feel free to contact them!

Alicia Lacoma

Action Chair

Dr. Alicia Lacoma

Institut Germans Trias i Pujol, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Spain.

alacoma@igtp.cat

0034 93 554 3050; Extension 6501

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    Action Vice Chair

    Tânia Silva

    ICBAS/i3S, University of Porto, Portugal.

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    Jose Domínguez

    Grant Holder Scientific Representative

    Dr. José Domínguez Benítez

    Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain

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    Science Communication Coordinator and WG4 Leader

    Dr. Mateja Jankovic Makek

    University Hospital Center Zagreb, Croatia

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    Grant Awarding Coordinator

    Dr. Cristina Prat Aymerich

    European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases. Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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    WG1 Leader

    Dr. Zorica Nanovic

    Institute of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Skopje. State University "Goce Delchev" Stip, North Macedonia 

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    Margarida Saraiva

    WG2 Leader

    Dr. Margarida Saraiva

    i3S, University of Porto, Portugal

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    WG3 Leader

    Dr. Martina Hrast Rambaher

    University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovenia

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    WG4 Leader

    Dr. Raquel Villar Hernández

    GenID GmbH, Germany

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    Would you like to join us?

    1. Read the Project Description Memorandum of Understanding.

    2. Inform the Chair of ADVANCE-TB, Alicia Lacoma, by email.

    3. Apply to join your Working Group(s) of interest.

    Thanks for your interest in our Action!
    We will get back to you as soon as possible.

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