Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Established in 1990, the Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas is a Center for Clinical Research and a branch of the Department of Social Medicine at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. It is in close relation to the university-affiliated teaching hospital – Hospital Universitario Cassiano Moraes (HUCAM) – and its outpatient and inpatient clinical facilities. Investigators at NDI focus on the epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, and molecular biology of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, HIV infection, and others. In 2002, the NDI developed the first culture-based TB clinical algorithm to be used in Brazil and has since then identified and managed the majority of TB cases detected in municipalities within the greater Vitória area.
Rodrigo Ribeiro Rodrigues
Principle Investigator
Co-Director – Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas (NDI)
Head of the NDI’s Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory
Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, UFES
Dr. Rodrigues is the Co-Director of the Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas (NDI) within the Federal University of Espirito Santo (NDI-UFES) in Vitoria, Brazil and Head of the NDI’s Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory. He will serve as the PI for the retrospective project at the Brazilian site. Dr. Ribeiro-Rodrigues has collaborated with the TBRU investigators on several NIH funded grants over the last 20 years, including serving as a co-investigator on the ICIDR and TBRU projects. Dr. Ribeiro-Rodrigues has a permanent seat on the National Board of HIV diagnosis & monitoring of the Ministry of Health, and active collaboration with local, state, and federal TB programs.
Dr. Rodrigues is the Site Principal Investigator for Brazil – Bacterial and host determinants of progression, manifestations and consequences of TB
Reynaldo Dietze
Invited Full Professor – Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Invited Full Professor Infectious Diseases – Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória, ES, Brazil
Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
Infectious Disease Unit – Federal University of Espirito Santo/Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória, ES, Brazil
Dr. Dietze is an Infectious Diseases specialist and expert in conducting clinical trials. He’s first participation in a TBRU project was in 1994 with Dr. Ellner. Since then, he has been also collaborating with Dr. Padmini Salgame and Dr. David Alland on tuberculosis research e.g. Early Bactericidal Assays, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology/Transmission and Microbiology studies.
Dr. Dietze is the Site Principal Investigator for Brazil – Bacterial and host determinants of progression, manifestations and consequences of TB