Biography
Alia Razid is currently a junior researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine - LMU University in Munich. Her work focuses on pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in low and middle income countries, with a focus on TB diagnostics, immunology and treatment response. With an engineering background as well as previous experience in R&D consultancy and pharma, Alia shifted her career to global health research, where her work spans clinical project management and biomarkers evaluation, with the goal of contributing to TB research.
Key Impacts
Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of the TAM-TB assay for paediatric TB in the RaPaed-TB study
These findings demonstrate high specificity of the TAM-TB assay and emphasizes its ability to detect TB, including when microbiological confirmation is negative, in a large African-Asian pediatric cohort. However, its technical complexity and the number of invalid results suggest the need for further assay refinement.
Source: Conference 2024
Spontaneous control of early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children exposed to M. tuberculosis without standard treatment
Impact details available upon request.
Source: Conference 2024