University of Pennsylvania CFAR

Primary contacts

Ron Collman: collmanr@mail.med.upenn.edu
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/aids/

HIV/TB Co-infection Projects:

• Immunology of TB early mortality after ART initiation in HIV/TB coinfected patients
  Greg Bisson - gregbisson@me.com
  Drew Weissman - dreww@mail.med.upenn.edu

• Pediatric TB diagnostics in coinfected children
  Andrew Steenhoff (Botswana-Upenn Partnership) - steenhoff@Email.chop.edu
  

• Epidemiology & risk factors for M.D.R-TB
  Nicola Zetola  (Botswana-Upenn Partnership) - nzetola@gmail.com

• T cell polyfunctionality and correlates of TB immunity in coinfected subjects
  Mike Betts - betts@mail.med.upenn.edu

• Innate and adaptive immune correlates of TB IRIS
  Luis Montaner (Wistar) - montaner@wistar.org

• Genetic and enzymatic networks that regulate M. tb dormancy
  Harvey Rubin - rubinh@mail.med.upenn.edu

Inter-CFAR Shared Resources:

• A large HIV-TB coinfection clinical program supported by PEPFAR in several locations in Botswana, with a number of young investigators interested in developing collaborative projects.