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Host Immune response to TB, Immunological biomarkers for TB, Immunodiagnostics for paediatric TB

I am a Research Fellow at the Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and a part time lecturer at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ghana where I teach veterinary Microbiology. I was previously a postdoc with Afrique One-ASPIRE, a one Health Research consortia under the DELTAS program of the African Academy of sciences. I have a PhD in Medical Research-International Health from the Center for International Health of the Ludwig Maximillian’s University, Munich-Germany. I am currently a Fellow of the African Science leadership Program (ASLP) of the University of Pretoria. My research interests include Host-Pathogen interaction in Tuberculosis and other bacterial zoonosis as well as vaccine, biomarkers and immunodiagnostic tools for TB. I am currently conducting a study that seeks to provide immunodiagnostic options for children suspected of having TB using blood and or Urine because many children cannot cough up the sputum required for the regular TB test. My career milestones include being part of the team that coordinated the first ever Tuberculin Skin Test Survey in Ghana involving 25,000 school children that led to an estimation of the risk of TB infection in 2010.

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