TUCSON and FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., May 1, 2017 — The Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (CPTR), an initiative of the Critical Path Institute (C-Path), has received a $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to significantly enrich its Relational Sequencing TB Data Platform (ReSeqTB). To this end, C-Path and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) are excited to announce a new partnership to sequence at least 12,000 tuberculosis (TB) bacteria isolates from around the world.

TUCSON, Ariz., October 25, 2016 - The Critical Path Institute's Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (CPTR) initiative and the Global TB Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) have partnered with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to develop leading-edge quantitative analyses of data from the TB-Platform for Aggregation of Clinical TB Studies (TB-PACTS) database. This collaboration, called TB-ReFLECT, will extract from these analyses key lessons from the TB-PACTS platform, and then package such lessons as tools for future TB trial design.

TUCSON, Ariz., April 18, 2016 — The Critical Path Institute (C-Path), the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), TB Alliance, and St. George’s, University of London, are pleased to announce the launch of the TB-Platform for Aggregation of Clinical TB Studies (TB-PACTS).

Multi-year grant to fund innovative global data platform designed to streamline tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment

New multi-year grant continues work to study pressing public health crisis

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Critical Path Institute, an independent, non-profit that catalyzes innovative ideas that accelerate the speed of drug and medical product development, today announced it has received a three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will be used to develop quantitative mathematical models to optimize the design of clinical trials and tackle challenges facing the development of effective tuberculosis (TB) treatments.