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News | 26/11/2025
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Highlights from the 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen

Annual Conference by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - The Union
Various researchers from our institute had the opportunity to contribute to the 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health and to share their work with the international community. The world's largest conference on lung health took place from 18 to 21 November 2025 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A view of Copenhagen’s historic Nyhavn harbor

This year's Union Conference featured a keynote by the award-winning, bestselling author, YouTuber and global health advocate, John Green ("Everything is Tuberculosis") and special guest Henry Reider - a TB survivor and the inspiration behind John Green's book.

Several colleagues from the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at LMU University Hospital Munich, along with affiliated researchers, contributed to the congress by sharing their expertise on tuberculosis and lung health research in the following sessions, among others:

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  • Track B: Lung Health (pneumonia, asthma, COPD, other respiratory diseases in adults and children); Late Breaker Oral Abstract Sessions
    Chair: Katharina Kranzer (THRU-ZIM/LSHTM/LMU Hospital)
    LB01 - Tuesday Nov 18 - 11:30 - 13:00
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  • Track M3: Health and well-being post TB, Life after TB
    Chair: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
    OA02 - Tuesday Nov 18 - 11:30 - 13:00
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  • Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of a 3-gene M. tuberculosis Host Response Cartridge in household contacts - Updated results from the multi-center prospective ERASE-TB study
    Presenter: Anna-Lisa Behnke
    LB01-1304-18 - Tuesday Nov 18 - 11:56 - 12:02
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  • Spontaneous control of early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children exposed to M. tuberculosis without standard treatment
    Poster Presenter: Alia Razid
    TBS-EP17 - Tuesday Nov 18 - 13:20 - 13:25
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  • Designing a digital clinical decision support system to strengthen implementation of treatment decision algorithms for childhood TB in Zambia and Mozambique
    Poster Presenter: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
    EP01-708-18 - Tuesday Nov 18 - 13:55 - 14:00
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  • Clinical predictors for radiological severe pulmonary TB in children: An individual participant data-analysis
    Presenter: Akshita Gupta
    SOA01-506-18 - Tuesday Nov 18 - 15:45 - 15:52
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  • Improving collaboration through access: A scoping review of TB clinical trial repositories;
    Non-sputum biomarkers for on-treatment prediction of TB disease recurrence
    Presenter: Mairi McClean
    TBS-EP59/TBS-EP74 - Wednesday Nov 19 - 09:25 - 09:30/09:50 - 09:55
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  • Active case finding strategies
    Speaker: Mikaela Coleman
    SPS02 A - Wednesday Nov 19 - 09:40 - 09:50
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  • Enhancing TB diagnosis and case finding among children
    Chair: Norbert Heinrich
    EP14 - Wednesday Nov 19 - 12:05 - 13:05
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  • Frontiers in immunology and biomarkers - infection, disease risk and treatment monitoring
    Chair: Kathrin Held
    EP24 - Wednesday Nov 19 - 13:10 - 14:10
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  • Accelerating prediction of treatment response in drug/regimen evaluation: The key role of biomarkers
    Chair: Norbert Heinrich
    TBS03 - Wednesday Nov 19 - 14:10 - 15:10
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  • An AI chest X-ray severity score is prognostic of time to culture conversion in a pulmonary TB clinical trial
    Presenter: Erlandy Basson
    LB02-1319-19 - Wednesday Nov 19 - 16:46 - 16:54
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  • The impact of prior TB on risk of subsequent TB in people living in households affected by TB: Results from the ERASE-TB study
    Presenter: Anna-Lisa Behnke
    OA14-237-19 - Wednesday Nov 19 - 16:54 - 17:02
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  • A novel transcriptome-informed quantitative real-time PCR-based signature for monitoring tuberculosis treatment success
    Poster Presenter: Kathrin Held
    TBS-EP155 MAMS_6 - Thursday Nov 20 - 12:10 - 12:15
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  • Does TB research presented at The Union World Conference on Lung Health engage with the conditions of poverty, inequality and undernutrition experienced by TB-affected communities? An abstract review
    Presenter: Mikaela Coleman
    OA21-297-20 - Thursday Nov 20 - 14:15 - 14:22
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  • Making it work for us: Community-led program design
    Chair: Kathrin Held
    SOA12 - Thursday Nov 20 - 15:55 - 17:25
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  • Track H4: Digital health technologies, Bridging gaps in TB care: AI solutions for high-risk populations

    Chair: Leyla Larsson (London, United Kingdom)
    Chair: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
    SOA11 - Thursday Nov 20 - 14:10 - 15:40
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  • Biomarker combinations of TB-MBLA with CFU and TTP give greater biological insight in EBA studies
    Presenter: Mairi McClean
    TBS-EP221 - Thursday Nov 20 - 14:25 - 14:30
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  • AI in monitoring treatment response in TB clinical trials
    Presenter: Mairi McClean
    MTE-10 - Friday Nov 21 - 08:00 - 09:00
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  • Advancing TB care: Innovations in drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and treatment
    Chair: Michael Hoelscher
    OA26 - Friday Nov 21 - 09:15 - 10:45
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    Including the presentations:
    OA26-353-21 Refining research outcomes: Lessons from the setup of an endpoint review committee in TB observational diagnostic studies
    Presenter: Leyla Larsson, 10:00 - 10:07

    OA26-357-21 UNITE4TB - DECISION: A BTZ-043 phase IIB dose-ranging trial in combination with bedaquiline and delamanid
    Presenter: Michael Hoelscher, 10:28 - 10:35
  • Session Smarter, shorter, stronger: Advancing paediatric TB care through science, Smarter decision, earlier diagnosis: The evolving landscape of pediatric TB
    Speaker: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
    SPS06 - Friday Nov 21 - 09:15 - 10:45
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  • Factors affecting the performance of chest X-ray artificial intelligence-based computer-aided diagnosis for TB in a primary health center
    Presenter: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
    OA33-423-21 - Friday Nov 21 - 14:47 - 14:55
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  • The Union/CDC late-breaker - TB Detection and Transmission: New Diagnostic Approaches and Study Insights
    Chair: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
    LB03 - Friday Nov 21 - 15:55 - 17:25
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  • Severity of TB disease in people diagnosed through systematic screening
    Presenter: Cong Minh Nguyen
    OA34-429-21 - Friday Nov 21 - 16:08 - 16:16
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  • Missed opportunities for HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment in TB-affected households: Evidence from a household contact cohort study
    Presenter: Edson Tawanda Marambire (Harare, Zimbabwe)
    OA34-432-21 – Friday Nov 21 – 16:32 - 16:40
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  • Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of the TAM-TB assay for paediatric TB in the RaPaed-TB study
    Presenter: Alia Razid
    OA35-443-21- Friday Nov 21 - 16:54 - 17:03
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Michael Hoelscher presented on "UNITE4TB - DECISION: A BTZ-043 phase IIB dose-ranging trial in combination with bedaquiline and delamanid"
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Norbert Heinrich chaired a session on "Accelerating prediction of treatment response in drug/regimen evaluation: The key role of biomarkers"
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Poster Presentation by Mairi McClean
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Entrance of the Union Conference 2025
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Colleagues from the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
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Colleagues from the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
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Presentation "Severity of TB disease in people diagnosed through systematic screening" by Cong Minh Nguyen
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Presentation "Clinical predictors for radiological severe pulmonary TB in children: An individual participant data-analysis" by Akshita Gupta
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Presentation by Akshita Gupta
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Side entrance of Bella Center, Copenhagen
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"Does TB research presented at The Union World Conference on Lung Health engage with the conditions of poverty, inequality and undernutrition experienced by TB-affected communities? An abstract review" presented by Mikaela Coleman
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Laura Olbrich presented at the World Health Organization research meeting on Treatment Decision Algorithms (TDAs) for pulmonary TB in children
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Poster presentation by Kathrin Held on "A novel transcriptome-informed quantitative real-time PCR-based signature for monitoring tuberculosis treatment success"
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Presentation “Missed opportunities for HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment in TB-affected households: Evidence from a household contact cohort study” by Edson Tawanda Marambire
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Kathrin Held co-chaired the session "Making it work for us: Community-led programme design"
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Exhibition Hall of the 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health, Bella Center, Copenhagen
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Anna-Lisa Behnke presented on "Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of a 3-gene M. tuberculosis Host Response Cartridge in household contacts – Updated results from the multi-centre prospective ERASE-TB study"
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Mairi McClean presented e-posters on "Improving collaboration through access: A scoping review of TB clinical trial repositories" and "Non-sputum biomarkers for on-treatment prediction of TB disease recurrence"
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Opening Session and Keynote by John Green, author of "Everything is Tuberculosis"
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Mikaela Coleman presented on "Active case finding strategies"
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Mikaela Coleman presented her poster "TB integrated screening at the coalface of climate-change: Lessons about what works from a qualitative study with Pacific-island leaders and donors"
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Alia Razid presented her e-poster "Spontaneous control of early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children exposed to M. tuberculosis without standard treatment"
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LMU Klinikum, Institut für Infektions- und Tropenmedizin
Norbert Heinrich chaired the E-Poster Session "Enhancing TB diagnosis and case finding among children"
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Mairi McClean presented on "AI in monitoring treatment response in TB clinical trials"
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As side events to the conference, researchers of the Tropical Institute presented at several meetings, such as a World Health Organization research meeting on Treatment Decision Algorithms (TDAs) for pulmonary TB in children (Research Group on New Diagnostics for TB in Children), as well as the Annual Meeting of the TB Sequel project.

Website The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025
Originally translated with DeepL