{"id":914,"date":"2022-06-05T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgpindia.com\/fend\/?p=914"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:45:32","slug":"morten-ruhwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fend-tb.org\/staging\/9960\/morten-ruhwald\/","title":{"rendered":"Morten Ruhwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_0\"><strong>Dr. Morten Ruhwald<\/strong> joined FIND in 2019 as Head of the TB programme. He is a medical doctor with over 15 years of professional experience, including 4 in clinical medicine and 12 in research and development in the area of vaccines and diagnostics for TB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_0\">Morten has been the Project Lead on several diagnostic tests for latent M.tb infection, including specific skin tests and new simpler in-vitro diagnostics in the IGRA family. He has worked extensively with international stakeholders in translational medicine and product development for poverty-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_0\">Before joining FIND, he was the Chief Medical Officer and Head of Human Immunology at the Center for Vaccine Research at Statens Serum Institute, Denmark, and before that he led the TB immunology group at the Copenhagen University Hospital. 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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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