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Specialization Course in Clinical TB Management

A new edition of the  Specialization Course in Clinical TB Management will be soon launched in the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Coordinated by Pr. Pere-Joan Cardona, and counting with Dr. Vilaplana as professor, this online course is open to … Continue reading

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Meet us at the Picasso Museum this week-end!

The Barcelona City Council in the context of the Citizen Festival of the European Capital  of Innovation, together with the artist Anna Dumitriu, have organised a weekend devoted to Tuberculosis. “The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis” is a highly … Continue reading

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The Phase II CT of RUTI®, the therapeutic vaccine against TB, published!

Dr Cardona and the other members of the team involved in the Phase II CT of the therapeutic vaccine RUTI® have published the results of the study registered in ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT01136161.  Conducted in SouthAfrica, the aim of the study was to evaluate … Continue reading

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Dr. Cardona receiving today the Òmnium Bages Culture award 2012

It will be this evening (8 o’clock) at the City Council of Manresa, the hometown of Cardona. Because of this, the newspaper Regió 7 has published an interview to the researcher that you can read here (in catalan). Cardona has emphasized … Continue reading

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TB Watch Symposium talks available in youtube

Some of you already know the UTE  together with the UOC organized a one-day symposium in Barcelona last september. Some of the talks are posted in youtube. You’ll be able to watch the CDC (Elsa Villarino) and MSF (Grania Bridgen) point … Continue reading

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Dr Cardona awarded (again)

Omnium Cultural (its Bages division) has awarded Dr Cardona with the “Premi Bages de Cultura 2012”, for his scientific career but also for his cultural interests and his evident  commitment with Catalonia. Dr Cardona received the new  with “surprise and … Continue reading

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Dr. Cardona, awarded

Dr. Cardona has been awarded with the “Premi a l’Excel·lència Professional” by the Medical  Association of Barcelona. This entity wants to recognize the professional activity of medical doctors by these awards, which are given every year since 2004. According to … Continue reading

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Dr. Cardona, interview in the UOC webpage

“99% of those infected with tuberculosis are unaware of their condition” said Dr. Cardona, as director of the post graduate course on Clinical TB Management, when he was interviewed by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). In this interview, uploaded into the … Continue reading

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The UTE is giving grants to access the online postgraduate “course Clinical TB Management”

Grants of the 50% or even more are offered by the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit (UTE). Many people specially from underdeveloped countries have been interested in the course, and even of having a good background and motivation to gain it, they … Continue reading

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Did you know? we are organizing an international one-day Symposium in Barcelona

Promoted by the Health Sciences Department of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) and Dr. Pere-Joan Cardona and Dr. Vilaplana, from the UTE,  the 1st international symposium TB Watch “Can we eradicate TB?” has been organized to be held … Continue reading

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