Find Diagnostics – 37th World Conference on Lung Health, 31 October

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FIND at 37th World Conference on Lung Health
31 October - 4 November 2006, Paris, France

FIND-BD meeting


FIND CEO Dr Giorgio Roscigno and Head of Product Evaluation Dr Richard O’Brien addressing participants at the FIND-BD meeting on MGIT demonstration projects.

Some presentations delivered during the FIND-BD meeting in Paris.

Buffet A light buffet was served prior the STOP TB Working Group annual meeting on New Diagnostics on 1 November 2006.

From left to right: Peter Melape, BD/Africa, Dr. Salman Siddiqi, from BD Diagnostics and co-author of the MGIT Procedure Manual, and Hojoon Sohn.	From left to right: FIND Project Manager, TB Laboratory Aspects, C.N. Paramasivan; FIND Consultant for latent TB infection, Madhukar Pai; Tony Catanzaro, University of California, San Diego.

The STOP TB Working Group The STOP TB Working Group annual meeting on New Diagnostics was held on 1 November 2006 at the Palais des Congrès
As chairman of The STOP TB Partnership Task Force on re-Tooling, FIND Senior Policy & Implementation Officer, Dr Vinand Natulya, stressed the need for new diagnostics to replace outdated ones and provided the audience with information on key developments and upcoming projects.	Operations Manager, Robert Matiru from the Global Drug Facility (GDF).
FIND Consultant for latent TB infection, Dr Madhukar Pai, presenting a report from the New Diagnostic Working Group meeting.	From left to right: STOP TB WG Secretary, Andy Ramsay (TDR/WHO), STOP TB WG Chairman, Dr Giorgio Roscigno (FIND), FIND Consultant for latent TB infection, Dr Madhukar Pai.
FIND Senior Policy & Implementation Officer, Dr Vinand Natulya, and Dr Leen Rigouts, from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.	From left to right: STOP TB WG Secretary, Andy Ramsay (TDR/WHO), STOP TB WG Chairman, Dr Giorgio Roscigno, Dr Tetsu Hase (Eiken), Dr Ruth McNerney (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Dr Jane Harry (Proteome Systems Ltd), FIND Head of Product Evaluation, Dr Richard O'Brien.

Some side meetings


From left to right: Dr Hubert Maes, Head of ANDA Diagnostics, Prof. Mohammed Reza Masjedi, FIND Chief Scientific Officer, Mark Perkins (pictured right), Dr Pamela Nabeta, TB study coordinator of FIND evaluation site in Peru at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, FIND Medical Officer, Catharina Boehme.

Cepheid-FIND meeting

Cepheid team (on left): Martin Jones and Martin Colla, both of Cepheid, Sunnyvale, Armand van Deun, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Arend Kolk (partially obscured), Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam Thomas Shinnick (not pictured), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
FIND team (on right): FIND Senior Technical Officer, Gerd Michel, FIND Project Manager, TB Laboratory Aspects, C.N. Paramasivan, FIND Chief Scientific Officer, Mark Perkins, FIND Medical Officer, Catharina Boehme.