Infectious diseases and GIM consultant, clinical academic interested in infection diagnostics
Bristol, England
Joined April 2014
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Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
🔬 New Study: Improving TB detection in high-burden countries with accessible, accurate tests. CAD4TB outperforms other tests, meeting WHO targets. Combining tests boosts accuracy. Read more: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #TB
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
Our consensus building work on:
Diagnostic yield as an important metric for the evaluation of novel tuberculosis tests
is finally out.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
england.nhs.uk/national-infe… Now available - guidance for NHS hospitals on the new HCID PPE ensemble, which offers optimised protection against HCID pathogens. It's called 'HCID Assessment PPE' as it will be used mostly for assessing and caring for patients suspected to have HCIDs.
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
Join us this Tues 19th 3pm UK and 5pm RSA for exciting panel of affected voices. Also guest appearance by Andrew Kerkhoff
Options
1. F2F @UCT_Research with the panel and wonderful MC @LindaGailBekker
2. Watch party @LSHTM_TB
3. Zoom. Nb pre register. See link below
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
Well deserved winne #SteveLawn #HIV #TB research leadership prize!
Wonderul @TheLancet profile Andrew Kerkhoff! Steve enjoyed being part of your journey fr 2010. His last trip was your #phd defence 2016. Delighted with your #implementation research focus.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
@pubhealthjobsuk @PHJobsUK
Consultant in Public Health
Ealing Council
Closes 11th March
Post 1: 0.6WTE, permanent
Post 2: 0.7WTE, fixed term 20 months
jobs.ealing.gov.uk/council_j…
Congrats Professor @cdenki. Not only an awesome scientist and advocate, but also a brilliant mentor and all round human. @McGill_TB @LSHTM_TB @UCSF_CTB @FINDdx
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Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
Defining what a rapid test to monitor TB treatment efficacy would look like ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… @ankurgw @LSHTM_TB @emilylmaclean @MyUniSR @MikashmiKohli @DFTablet @UCLInfectImm
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
We have some exciting positions to fill in our group.
Please share widely!
Doctoral Student / Postdoc in epidemiological modelling (m/f/d)
karriere.klinikum.uni-heidel…
Epidemiologist (m/f/d)
karriere.klinikum.uni-heidel…
Data scientist (m/f/d)
karriere.klinikum.uni-heidel…
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
Delighted to see the WHO release Target Product Profile (TPP) for TB treatment monitoring tests. Thumbs up to Prof SH Gillespie of @univofstandrews who contributed to this TPP bit.ly/3u62swv @Infection_StAnd @TBtrials_StAnd @UStAResearch @NIMRMbeya @TBAlliance @EDCTP
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
Deeply saddened by the death of my friend & mentor Prof. Sir Eldryd Parry, founder of the Tropical Health & Education Trust. He contributed so much to global health & touched so many lives worldwide, esp. in Africa. My heartfelt condolences to his family. We’ll miss him greatly.
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
We just published a preprint of a 20-study individual patient data meta-analysis of the diagnostic yield of urine versus sputum based diagnostic tests for TB.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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1750 signatures! – at Bristol, England
BREAKING NEWS: We've just launched our petition calling on @BristolCouncil to take action for safer cycling. If everyone who attended yesterday signs, we'll be a good way towards the 3500 needed to trigger a council debate!
Get signing and spread the word!
bit.ly/bristolcyclingpetitio…
Ankur Gupta-Wright retweeted
@NIHRinvolvement Virtual
Introduction-@grahamscooke
About value proposition-@omarinthought
Can diagnostics improve patient outcomes? A case study of rapid diagnostics for Tuberculosis-@ankurgw
Development of a rapid, low-cost Human Cytomegalovirus diagnostic project-Shanshan Zhou
The @NIHRinvolvement Translation of Infectious Diseases diagnostics event will take place on October 4th. The event will outline how innovators can increase the chances of their diagnostic being clinically adopted, and how the London IVD can support this.
bit.ly/3xTDgss
Real-world data showing the utility of rapid COVID diagnostics for triaging patients being admitted from ED. results available <1 hour, sens 83%, NPV >99%. Similar performance to LFDs doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2021.… @LNWH_NHS
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What are other UK EDs doing to screen attendees for COVID? What rapid testing platforms are being used? Please complete our survey forms.gle/pcE145Sd4TQXMgrFA @RCollEM @richardbody @jhieditor