Over the past 1.5 years I’ve been the Editor of TBnet News. Now, as I am leaving TBnet Steering Committee, this is the last TBnet News issue I’m editing. Hope you’ve enjoyed reading it or, at least, looking at the cover pictures I was lovingly making for this purpose.

Join us on 30DEC2024 for an opportunity to look back over the past year in TB research in the final webinar of 2024! https://t.co/hSHUO5NcYz

Revisiting diagnostics: a comprehensive approach to assessment of the tuberculosis infection screening strategy cost-effectiveness https://t.co/mDYP2CjQ7w

Join us tomorrow for our next webinar on Paediatric TB! https://t.co/WwefCjACQV

Join us on 27JUN2024 at 1700 CEST for the next TBnet/MSF webinar: "Overcoming the challenges of access to TB medicines in Europe - no more time to waste" https://t.co/ElqSIVsY6l

Voting for the TBnet Photo Competition is still open, but not for long! Please login using your membership details at  https://t.co/gWAnlXthV5  and cast your vote for your favourite picture before 1700 CET on 28JUN2024

TBnet Academy 2024 We thank our hosts from Sotiria Hospital for Chest Diseases, the faculty and all the organisers who made this wonderful event.

Day 2 of the TBnet Academy: The participants gave two state-of-the-art presentations : - TB epidemiology & prevention - TB diagnostics We then heard from Anna Mandalakas and Christoph Lange who tried to answer the one million question: is End TB Strategy a realistic goal?

In the meantime, we’re pleased to share some impressions of our Joint Symposium with @IMI_ERA4TB yesterday 👇@IHIEurope, @AMRAccelerator, @EFPIA, @DZIF_, @LMU_Uniklinikum, @derekjsloan, @UlrikaSimonsson, @institutpasteur #YesWeCanEndTB #SaveLives #PublicPrivatePartnership

As always, it was an excellent and inspiring meeting! Many thanks to those who organised the meeting, who joined in person and online, and everyone involved. Looking forward to seeing you all at the UNITE4TB Annual Meeting 2025!

TBnet is attending the @UNITE4TB Annual Meeting hosted by Uppsala University in Sweden. Sunny Uppsala is welcoming the consortium that is meeting to talk about the project progress and plans for the coming months. TBnet is represented by Graham Bothamley and Irina Kontsevaya.

Today, we are in Uppsala, Sweden for the @UNITE4TB-@IMI_ERA4TB Joint Symposium, kindly hosted by our Consortium Partner, @uppsalauni.

📢 The ERA4TB-@UNITE4TB Joint Symposium just kicked off! For the first time, 200+ researchers working on #Tuberculosis are gathered at @UU_University The session started with a welcome introduction by Ulrika Simonsson, Stewart Cole and Derek Sloan @IHIEurope @AMRAccelerator

Work Package Biomarkers of @UNITE4TB has developed two target product profiles for biomarker-based treatment monitoring tools suitable for phase 2 and 3 clinical drug trials. https://t.co/Tu8XvLHcph

Dear #tuberculosis community, I am currently looking for #researchjob opportunities in Germany or remotely elsewhere. Tuberculosis/infectious diseases, diagnostics, biomarkers, drug development. Please contact me if you know something.🙌 More info:

It has been 6 months since the brutal attacks in #Israel by Hamas and other groups, in which 1,200 people were killed, many more injured and hundreds abducted. @WHO once again condemns this barbaric act of violence and demands the release of remaining hostages. However, this

Last chance to submit your work for our World TB Day photo competition! Deadline: 8 April 2024. https://t.co/ClcOR1OoDo

#WorldTBDay2024 The Global #Tuberculosis Dictionary has just been released: unified terms and definitions for the #TB field https://t.co/wAsmdWIlUQ Read the associated comment published in @LancetGH https://t.co/mNeBGFneHd @ISGLOBALorg @McGill_TB @Manhica_MTBI

#WorldTBDay2024 Together we can #EndTB!

With #WorldTBDay coming up, we asked experts in the field to comment on the importance of investing in #TB R&D. Watch our video featuring Charles Wells of @GatesMRI, Cherise Scott of @UNITAID & and Kelly Dooley of @VUMChealth 👉 https://t.co/9z3ainHGyA