The Centre for Paediatrics is delighted to host this special guest lecture on TB progression from Professor Tom Scriba.
Dr Tom Scriba (PhD) is Professor in Immunology at the Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town and Co-Director of SATVI, where directs the Clinical Immunology Laboratory. He trained in biological sciences at Stellenbosch University and obtained a DPhil (PhD) in T cell immunology at Oxford University. He returned to South Africa in 2006 to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in paediatric and clinical immunology in TB and vaccinology at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town.
Dr Scriba’s research interests include immunopathogenesis of infectious disease, and in particular M. tb, development of immuno-diagnostics, development of novel TB vaccines, discovery of immune correlates of risk of TB disease and correlates of protection against M. tb infection and TB disease. He has been co-investigator in 30 trials of novel TB vaccine candidates conduced at SATVI and is Co-PI of the Immune Correlates Consortium, which aims to discover immune correlates of protection in samples collected in recent phase 2b trials of BCG and M72:ASO1E.
His particular interests focus on understanding the immunopathology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and TB disease developing correlates of risk and immunological correlates of protection against TB.