With funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), University of California, San Francisco partners with University of California, Berkeley to join the inaugural cohort of six Tuberculosis Research Advancement Centers (TRACs) announced in 2022 to support the development of the next generation of tuberculosis researchers.

Dr. Payam Nahid at UCSF and Dr. Jeffery Cox of UC Berkeley serve as co-Directors of UC TRAC, as well as Co-Directors of the Administrative Core. The other three cores supported by UC TRAC are co-led by Drs. Babak Javid of UCSF and Sarah Stanley of UCB (Basic Science Core), Drs. Priya Shete and Patrick Phillips of UCSF (Clinical Science Core), and Drs. Elizabeth Fair of UCSF and Art Reingold of UCB (Developmental Core).

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE AIMS:

  • Providing Scientific and Administrative Leadership Across Domains

  • Initiatives that bring the TB community together and promote TRAC growth, reduce siloes

  • Provide infrastructure support to the Community Advisory Board

  • Monitoring & Evaluation

ANNUAL REPORTS:

NEWSLETTERS:

ANNUAL UC TRAC MEETING: Bay Area TB Science (BATS) Symposium

The UC TRAC BATS Symposium brings together TB investigators at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford University and SF Department of Public Health. UC TRAC hosts and sponsors this annual symposium to highlight established and early-stage investigators in the UC TRAC community with the intention to build community and foster collaboration. The planning committee is co-chaired by UC TRAC Basic Science Directors, Drs. Babak Javid (UCSF) and Sarah Stanley (UC Berkeley).

A Partnership Across Campuses

Administrative Core

  • Thea Sigerman, MSW, MPH

    Project Manager, UCSF Center for Tuberculosis
    CAB and Dev Core Project Manager, UC TRAC

  • Barbara Alonso

    Program Coordinator, UCSF Center for Tuberculosis
    Clinical Core Program Coordinator, UC TRAC

External Advisory Committee (EAC)

  • Kelly E. Dooley, MD, PhD

    Professor and Addison B. Scoville, Jr., Chair in Medicine
    Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
    Department of Medicine
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  • Andrea Ruff, MD

    Associate Professor, Depts of International Health and Pediatrics

    Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine

  • Thomas R. Hawn, M.D., Ph.D.

    Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
    University of Washington School of Medicine

Fellow Tuberculosis Research Advancement Centers

  • Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio

    Principal Investigator: Larry Schlesinger, M.D. Grant P30AI168439-01

    IN-TRAC Website

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

    Principal Investigators: Petros Karakousis, M.D., and Richard Chaisson, M.D.
    Grant P30AI18436-01

    JHU TRAC Website

  • Emory University, Atlanta

    Principal Investigators: Neel Gandhi, M.D., and Jyothi Rengarajan, Ph.D.
    Grant P30AI168386-01

    Emory/Georgia TRAC Website

  • University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

    Principal Investigators: Chetan Seshadri, M.D., Rhea Coler, Ph.D., and David Sherman, Ph.D.
    Grant P30AI168034-01

    UW SEATRAC Website

  • NYC Tri-I-I TRAC, Cornell University

    Principal Investigators: Daniel Fitzgerald, M.D. and Kyu Rhee, Ph.D.
    Grant P30AI168433-01