2025 Center for TB Research & TRAC Annual Scientific Meeting
The 2025 TRAC/TB Center Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 28th in Sheldon Hall (W1214) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as well as on Zoom. The Annual Meeting Program will include the 2025 Maria Nikitin Memorial Lecture and the presentation of the 2025 Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. award.
2025 Annual Meeting Draft Agenda
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2025 Maria Nikitin Memorial Lecture
Jason Andrews, MD
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Dr. Jason Andrews is a tenured Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. His research focuses on development and testing of novel tools for characterizing the burden and transmission of tuberculosis and tropical infectious diseases. His lab employs a diverse of set of methodologies from genomic epidemiology and molecular biology to mathematical modeling and clinical and field epidemiology studies in low- and middle-income countries. His mathematical modeling work on cost-effectiveness of mass drug administration for schistosomiasis and vaccine introduction strategies for typhoid fever were cited in WHO guidelines and position statements. His lab has led the development of several diagnostic assays for tuberculosis and tropical diseases, including: 1) a rapid pharmacogenomic assay to guide personalized tuberculosis treatment dosing; 2) a novel point-of-care serodiagnostic for typhoid fever that exceeds the accuracy of all commercially available diagnostics; and 3) a low-cost bacteriophage-based assay for mapping environmental abundance of typhoidal Salmonella. Dr. Andrews’ lab led the largest Salmonella Typhi sequencing and phylogeographic study to date, which revealed extensive international and intercontinental spread of drug-resistant typhoid. His group led the development of a novel seroepidemiology approach to estimating incidence of typhoid fever from dried blood spots, cited in forthcoming WHO guidance on burden estimation. He has served as Principal Investigator for 9 NIH awards, including a Director’s New Innovator Award, four R01 awards and a K24 award for mentorship. Dr. Andrews has mentored more than three dozen students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have gone on to establish successful independent research groups. He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers and served on working groups for the CDC and WHO.
The Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr., MD, PhD Award
The Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. award is given each year to a trainee or trainees in the Center for Tuberculosis Research whose work exemplifies the commitment, industry, and vision demonstrated by Art during his long and illustrious career as a TB researcher. The award is presented annually at the Scientific Meeting of the Center for TB Research based on original research presented at the meeting by trainees. Individuals are nominated for the award by their mentors and decisions are based on a vote by the faculty of the TB Center during the meeting. Faculty eligible to vote are those with a full-time appointment within the TB Center or those committing a substantial amount of time to research collaborations in the Center.
Learn more and view previous Arthur M. Dannenberg Jr. Awardees here.
The Inaugural Jacques Grosset Mentor Award Nomination
Do you have an outstanding mentor? Be sure to nominate them for the Inaugural Jacques Grosset Mentor Award. This award recognizes an exemplary JHU faculty mentor who has significantly contributed to the professional development, research excellence, and career advancement of trainees in TB research.
The deadline to submit nominations is Monday, May 19th. Final award selection will be determined by the JHU TRAC Developmental Core and announced at the Annual Meeting.