To reduce the burden of TB worldwide through more accurate, faster, simpler, and less expensive diagnosis of TB Every year, more than 3 million people with TB remain undiagnosed and 1 million die. Better diagnostics are essential to reducing the enormous burden of TB worldwide. The Rapid Research in Diagnostics Development for TB Network (R2D2 TB Network) brings together experts in TB care, technology assessment, diagnostics development, laboratory medicine, epidemiology, health economics and mathematical modeling with highly experienced clinical study sites in 10 countries. Together, we will move the field forward by providing a transparent and partner-engaged process for the identification, evaluation and advancement of the most promising TB diagnostics.

Principal Investigators

  • Adithya Cattamanchi
    Professor of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  • Claudia Denkinger
    Medical Director of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

  • Payam Nahid
    Professor of Medicine and Director of Center for Tuberculosis, UCSF, San Francisco, USA

Steering Committee

  • DJ Christopher
    Chief Pulmonary Physician, Professor of Pulmonary Medicine & Associate Director, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

  • Julio Croda
    Professor, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

  • Beatte Kampmann
    Scientific Director for Vaccinology Research, MRC Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia and Director of the Vaccine Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

  • Leonid Lecca
    Executive Director, Partners in Health in Peru, Lima, Peru and Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  • Dinh Van Luong
    Director, National Lung Hospital, Director of the Lung Transplantation Center, National Lung Hospital Manager, Vietnam TB Program, Head of Faculty of TB and Lung diseases, Hanoi Medical University

  • Monde Muyoyeta
    Director of TB Programmes, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  • Grant Theron
    Professor, Clinical Mycobacteriology and Epidemiology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Nestani Tukvadze
    Head, Research Department, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • William Worodria
    Consultant Chest Physician, Department of Medicine, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

  • Charles Yu
    Vice Chancellor for Research at De La Salle Angelo King Medical Research Center, Dasmariñas, Philippines

  • Heather Zar
    Professor & Head, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town South Africa

Co-investigators

  • Jason Andrews
    Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, USA

  • Niaz Banaei
    Professor, Pathology and Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, USA

  • David Dowdy
    Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

  • Midori Kato-Maeda
    Professor of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  • John Metcalfe
    Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  • Ruvandhi Nathavitharana
    Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA

  • Patrick Phillips
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  • Morten Ruhwald
    Head, TB Programme, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

  • Christine Winoto
    Deputy Director, QB3 and Director, Rosenman Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  • Christina Yoon
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF

  • Seda Yerlikaya
    Technology Lead, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Staff

Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany:

  • Maria del Mar Castro Noriega
    Research Scientist

  • Ankur Gupta-Wright
    Research Fellow

  • Sonal Jain
    Technology Officer

  • Seda Yerlikaya
    Technology Lead

UCSF, San Francisco, USA:

  • Catherine Cook
    Clinical Research Coordinator, Adult sites

  • Brittney Sweetser (UC Irvine)
    Clinical Research Coordinator, Pediatric sites

  • Robert Castro
    Research Data Analyst

  • Rebecca Crowder
    Research Data Analyst

  • Jillian Kadota
    Research Data Analyst

  • Tessa Mochizuki
    Research Data Analyst

  • Caitlin Moe
    Research Specialist

  • Kevin Nolan
    Staff Research Associate

  • Hayley Poore
    Research Data Analyst

  • Kinari Shah
    Research Data Analyst

  • Barbara Alonso
    Administrative Analyst

Funding

Funding for the Rapid Research for Diagnostics Development in TB Network (R2D2 TB Network) project is provided by NIH/NIAID, award U01AI152087-01.