Annual Meeting 2025 Posters

Along with keynote talks, research presentations by VALIDATE-funded projects, and time for networking, we will be holding a Poster Session on Day One of the Annual Meeting, to allow more VALIDATE members to showcase their research.

Below you can find the list of posters accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting 2025.

 

Dr Francis Adu-Amankwaah

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

In-silico and in-vitro assessments of some fabaceae, rhamnaceae, apocynaceae, and anacardiaceae species against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and triple-negative breast cancer cells

Dr Sasha Larsen Akins

Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA

Building reproducible and escalating preclinical models for mycobacteriophage efficacy testing

Dr Salem Almujri

King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

Immunoinformatics-Driven Identification of Broadly Protective TB Vaccine Candidates

Dr Chiraz Atri

Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia

Implication of NR4A Transcription Factors during Leishmania-Macrophage Interactions

Prof Carina Carvalho dos Santos

Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

An immunoinformatics approach to identify potential epitopes for a tuberculosis vaccine

Dr Naomi Daniels

University of Otago, New Zealand

Immune Evasion Strategies of Beijing-Genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Insights from Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis

Dr Huyen Dao Thi Ngoc

University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Knowledge and Practices Regarding Melioidosis Among Doctors in Southern Vietnam

Dr Taru Dutt

Colorado State University, USA

Lung-Resident B Cells in Tuberculosis: Unravelling Their Role in Local Immunity and Vaccine Development

Miss Beatrice Nassanga Francis

University of Oxford, UK

Developing bovine immune organoids for the screening of bovine TB vaccine candidates

Dr Camila Freitas

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Immunization with Recombinant LiHyp1 Protein Plus Adjuvant Provides Protection Against Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in a murine model

Dr Tuhina Gupta

University of Georgia, USA

Assessing protection of novel nanoparticle-based vaccine against tuberculosis

Dr Mulualem Tadesse Jano

Jimma University, Ethiopia

High Rate of Indeterminate Rifampicin-Resistance in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Shenen Gibe Hospital, Jimma, Ethiopia: Implications for programmatic use of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra Assay

Dr Shambhu Joshi

Mahabaudha Medical Center, Nepal

Quality of Life in Patients Affected by Rare Neglected Tropical Dermatological Diseases: Post Covid-19 Era

Mr Raphael Kamng'ona

MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, The Gambia

Analysis of Immune cells and pathways in the development and outcome of post-TB lung disease

Dr Sabella Kiprono

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya

Burden of Visceral Leishmaniasis and Associated Risk Factors Among Residents of Baringo County, Kenya

Dr Nastassja Kriel

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Secretome characterization of viable but non-replicating enriched M. tuberculosis culture for TB vaccine candidate discovery

Dr Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl

University of Oxford, UK

Features of T-cell dysfunction contributing to disease susceptibility in diabetes mellitus: implications for vaccine design

Miss Millicent Naa Koshie Lamptey

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Ghana

Monocyte transcriptome signatures of inflammation and enhance neutrophil recruitment characterize immunopathology in the blood of tuberculosis patients

Dr Clement Likhovole

Mount Kenya University, Kenya

Novel Diagnostic Molecular Technique based on Identical Multi Repeat Sequences on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome for the Detection of Tuberculosis

Mrs Erin McMaster

University of Oxford, UK

Investigating the effect of changing environmental conditions on the growth, virulence and genomic sequence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria

Miss Sumaya Mohayideen

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Ghana

Lower HbA1c and Increased Monocyte Activation in BCG-Vaccinated Type 1 Diabetes Patients in Ghana

Dr Alexandra Morrison

UK Health Security Agency, UK

Could new tuberculosis vaccines increase the risk of HIV transmission? Investigations using intravenously delivered BCG vaccine and rectal/vaginal swabs and biopsies in macaques

Dr Zaynab Mousavian

Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Plasma Protein Signatures for Active TB Diagnosis: 6-Marker and 4-Marker Panels as Promising Clinical Candidates

Miss Pamela Ncube

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Genotypic and phenotypic assessment of Mycobacterium bovis persisters from wildlife specimens following in vitro stress

Miss Jomkwan Ongarj

University of Oxford, UK

Identification of humoral correlates of protection in a BCG controlled human infection model (CHIM)

Miss Tayla Smith

Africa Health Research Institute & University College London, South Africa & UK

Investigating M. tuberculosis ΔleuDΔpanCD as an in vitro persister model

Dr Andy Tran

City St George's, University of London, UK

Development of a Novel Self-adjuvanting Mucosal Vaccine for Tuberculosis (TB)

Dr Malek Trimèche

Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia

Effect of Phlebotomus papatasi Salivary Gland on the Development of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Balb/c Mice Model

Dr Mohammad Uddin

icddr,b, Bangladesh

Innovating Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Care with RISK6: Diagnosis and Treatment Monitoring

Dr Endalew Yizengaw

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Neutrophil Effector Functions in Response to Different Isolates of Leishmania aethiopica

Ms Janet Zambezi

MRC The Gambia at LSHTM, The Gambia

The effect of N-acetyl cysteine on oxidative pathways leading to lung damage in Tuberculosis