Our tuberculosis research at The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025
17 Nov 2025
This week, researchers from around the world will gather for The Union World Conference on Lung Health, held from 18-21 November in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Researchers from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL and our collaborators from other institutions will present our latest tuberculosis (TB) work, including new findings from the largest randomised clinical trial in children with TB meningitis, the SURE trial.
Details of the presentations are summarised below.
Presentations
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Date (CET time) |
Session |
Title |
Presenter(s) |
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Wednesday 19 November 16:22 – 16::30 PM
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The Union/CDC Late-Breaker Session - Clinical Trial Advances in TB: HIV Co-Infection, Pediatric Meningitis, and New Drugs |
“Shortened intensive anti-TB treatment and aspirin for African and Asian children with TB meningitis: The 48-week results from the phase-3 factorial randomised SURE trial” |
Di Gibb |
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Thursday 20 November 09:15 – 10:45 AM |
Late phase (II/III), Symposium / Auditorium |
“The paediatric TB meningitis SURE trial: What have we learnt?” |
Suzanne Anderson, Di Gibb, Christina Zulu, Rob Aarnoutse, Naveen Sankhyan, Julie Huynh |
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Friday 21 November 16:15 – 16:30 PM |
Lymph node TB: Identifying priorities, challenges, and finding better treatments faster |
Missing nodes: A systematic review of representativeness of lymph node TB in randomised treatment trials |
Ilaria Motta |
Posters
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Date (CET time) |
Session |
Title |
Presenter |
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Thursday 20 November 13:10 – 14:10 PM |
Diabetes and ageing in TB: Breaking barriers to better care
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Investigating the association between TB infection and multimorbidity in people with diabetes |
Jiahan Kelly Peng
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Friday 21 November 12:05 – 13:05 PM |
Enhancing TB care: Innovations in drug therapy, pharmacokinetics and treatment strategies |
Geographical representativeness of participants enrolled in randomised trials for TB treatment: A systematic review |
Ilaria Motta |
In collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access, our Principal Clinical Research Fellow, Ilaria Motta, will also be chairing the session “Uniting voices for equitable TB care in Europe: Advancing people-centred diagnosis and treatment” on Wednesday, 19th, from 15:55 to 17:25 PM, as part of the Union Symposium.
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