{"id":1129,"date":"2022-06-07T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgpindia.com\/fend\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:39:26","slug":"grace-kisitu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fend-tb.org\/staging\/9960\/grace-kisitu\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Kisitu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_0\"><strong>Dr. Grace Kisitu<\/strong> is a clinician, a public health specialist and a researcher at Makerere University School of Medicine. His career interests include conducting and promoting clinical, operational and implementation science research with emphasis on infectious diseases (including HIV\/TB), nutrition health in children and adolescents with HIV. He has over 11 years experience in pediatric HIV care and management of which 5 years have been dedicated to research in the same field. He is an investigator on several successful collaborative (multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, intra and inter-country) studies\/research projects (including TB\/HIV research collaborations). Currently, he is Research Manager\/Coordinator for Baylor College of Medicine Children\u2019s Foundation. Dr. Kisitu serves as the Clinical Research Coordinator and Investigator of the pediatric TB diagnostics protocols based at Makerere University. He provides years of experience in research and clinical care of children that will enhance pediatric diagnostic evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Investigator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<p class=\"font_0\"><strong>Dr. Salgame<\/strong> is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University. She is the Director of the MD\/PhD Program and the Graduate Medical Research Program. Her research focuses on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and host immune mechanisms that protect against infection and progression to disease. Her research team also studies the biology and host response of clinical strains of M. tuberculosis with differing transmissibility. Her group conducts these investigations in humans and animal models. She and her collaborators also perform biomarker studies at several international sites. Dr. Salgame is on the Editorial Board of Infection and Immunity and is also an Associate Editor for PLOS Pathogens. In addition to her research pursuits, Dr. Salgame has managed and led a range of science training programs. She is Program Director on a T32 training grant in Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. 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