News and Events
-
International Symposium on TB-DM comorbidity: challenges and opportunities
The first the “International Symposium on TB-DM comorbidity: challenges and opportunities” was held in Lima on 19th May in the Peruvian College of Physicians auditorium, and was organized by the Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt & CRONICAS from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with the support from World Diabetes…
More -
From Indonesia to Peru - TANDEM circles the Globe
The ‘Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia’ (UPCH) welcomed TANDEM team members with open arms for the consortium’s final progress meeting, which took place in Lima, Peru from 16-18th May, 2017. The event was conveniently hosted at UPCH’s campus in Miraflores, where everything – hotel, restaurants and meeting venue – was easily within walking distance. Project partners who arrived a day ahead of…
More -
Indonesia launches Ministerial Decree on Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis becomes a mandatory notifiable disease
More -
TANDEM article in The Lancet
Tropical countries are experiencing a substantial rise in type 2 diabetes, which is often undiagnosed or poorly controlled. Since diabetes is a risk factor for many infectious diseases, this increase probably adds to the large infectious disease burden in tropical countries. TANDEM partners Reinout van Crevel and David Moore, together with Seven van de Vijver, reviewed the literature to…
More -
TANDEM partner to receive the NWO Spinoza Prize
On 13 September 2016 TANDEMs Mihai Netea from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre will receive the NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Spinoza Prize, which is the highest Dutch award in science and comes with an amount of 2.5 million euros to be used for scientific research. Receiving the NWO Spinoza Prize is not only an honor but above all an incentive to conduct…
More -
Save the date: The 2016 TB Summit
The TB Summit will be held in London, UK, from 21st-23rd June 2016. The annual three day event is dedicated to new research into TB detection, treatment and vaccination, as well as to the control and prevention of the disease. The first conference day will be dedicated to drug discovery and therapeutics, the second to diagnostics and drug resistances and the last day will have its focus on…
More -
WHO publishes 1st Diabetes Report
The WHO has published its first Diabetes Report. The numbers provided are alarming: With 422 million affected adults worldwide in 2014, the prevalence of diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980. The death toll of diabetes was .5 million in 2012, with additional 3.7 million deaths due to diabetes related complications. The fastest rise of the diabetes epidemic is being recorded in low- and…
More