World TB Day - Trials and tribulations to get better TB treatment - a podcast by UCL

Professor Stephen Gillespie presents a plenary session at 'The Challenge of TB: UCL's Contribution' held on 24th March 2010. Professor Gillespie gives a history of TB treatment to the present day; through pre-drug therapy and the pivotal first testing of streptomycin, to combination drug trials, and then the eventual development of 6-month therapy. From there he discusses present developments in TB drug development and clinical trials, in particular the importance of collaboration illustrated by 2 major projects currently underway at UCL; REMoxTB study and PanaCEA consortium which both aim to contribute to capacity development of clinical trial sites to enable testing of the increasing number of TB active agents and thus speed the introduction of new treatments.

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