Event Category: Weekly Meeting

TRAC Seminar Series

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Title: High-dose rifampicin for tuberculous meningitis: the HARVEST multi-country randomized clinical trial

Reinout van Crevel, is an ID physician and professor at Radboudumc, the Netherlands and Queen Mary University London who collaborated for >25 years with Indonesian universities. One of his main research interests is TB meningitis, linking clinical studies and laboratory sciences. Among other things he has pioneered work on intensified antibiotic treatment for TB meningitis in Indonesia which culminated in HARVEST phase III RCT on high-dose rifampicin, published in NEJM last year.

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TRAC Seminar Series

Dr.  Samuel Starke

TB Preventive Therapy in a High Migration Setting: Early Experience with 1HP in Suburban Cook County, Illinois

Hybrid:   Carnegie | Zoom

Samuel Starke, MD, is a second-year Infectious Diseases fellow in the Rush University–Cook County Health combined program and an alumnus of the Osler Medical Residency. His longstanding research interests include population TB control and prevention, with prior collaborations with the Zero TB in Tibetans campaign and the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in South Africa, as well as domestic work with the Chicago and Cook County Health Department TB programs. He will join the Rush University Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor in July 2026 and serve as the ID liaison to the Cook County Chest Clinic.

 

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TRAC Seminar Series – Special Event!

SPECIAL JHU TRAC EVENT – MONDAY MARCH 2, 2026

12- 1PM EST: Erlina Burhan, MD, MSc. Ph.D

Professor of Respiratory Medicine

Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (FMUI) –

Persahabatan National Respiratory Referral Hospital Jakarta

Infectious Disease and Immunology Research Cluster IMERI FMUI

 

Presentation: Closing the TB Elimination Gap in Indonesia: Landscape of Research, Programmatic Implementation, and Stakeholder Partnerships

Mar 2, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Meeting ID: 961 1909 6033

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TRAC Seminar Series

The Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET will be held in the Carnegie 328 Conference Room and via Zoom.

**Please note that unfortunately we will no longer be able to provide lunch during these meetings**

“Tuberculosis and increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases: Emerging epidemiologic evidence”

Matthew J Magee, PhD MPH
Associate Professor
Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University

Matthew completed his formal training in epidemiology and his research focuses on the intersection between tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases. Much of Matthew’s recent research includes clinical and healthcare database studies that evaluate the impact of tuberculosis on risk of diabetes melltius and cardiovascular diseases.

This seminar is presented by the Clinical Core and will be held in-person in the Carnegie 328 Conference Room and via Zoom.

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Topic: TRAC Seminar Series
Time: Every week on Wednesday at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/94704979755
Meeting ID: 947 0497 9755
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TRAC Seminar Series

The Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC)  Seminar will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom.

“Continuing tales of the tubercle bacillus: have tubercle, will travel”

Kyu Rhee, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine,
Vice Chair for Research Department of Medicine,
Interim co-chief Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Co-director Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance
Weill Cornell Medicine

Kyu Rhee is an infectious disease physician-scientist and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine where he also leads 3 physician-scientist training programs, including the DoM PSTP, BWF MD-only physician-scientist training program and an NIAID-funded R38 StARR. He received his MD PhD degrees from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied the biochemical mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in E. coli, and subsequently completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell where following a brief postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Carl Nathan, he has spent his career studying clinically relevant features of the basic biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He also serves as Vice chair of the ASCI Physician-Scientist Development Committee and as a member of AAIM Research Committee and the National Association of Clinician Scientists.

The October TRAC seminars are presented by the Microbiology, Immunology, Animal Modeling & Imaging (MIAMI) Core.

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Topic: TRAC Seminar Series
Time: Every week on Wednesday at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/94704979755
Meeting ID: 947 0497 9755
Passcode: 179967