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St Andrews University<\/a><\/p>\n

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shg3@st-andrews.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stephen Gillespie<\/h1>\n

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Stephen Gillespie has worked in Kenya researching the relationship between malaria and lower respiratory tract infection and the prevalence of parasitic infection in children in\u00a0<\/span>Kilifi<\/span>, Kenya. He has investigated a cholera epidemic and vaccine failures in Guerrero, Mexico. He has been working in collaboration with colleagues at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre since 1988 where he has, variously, studied respiratory and parasite diagnostics and novel\u00a0<\/span>antimalarial<\/span>, anti-<\/span>helminthics<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>anti-tuberculosis<\/span>\u00a0agents. His main research activity is in the area of tuberculosis drug development.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the last twenty five years Stephen Gillespie has been involved in various aspects\u00a0<\/span>of tuberculosis<\/span>\u00a0diagnosis and drug development. This has included the evaluation of new candidate anti<\/span>–<\/span>tuberculosis agents in vitro. This work has expanded into studies of the molecular mechanisms of resistance and the development of model systems to measure the fitness deficits found in resistant strains. He has been involved in the development of fluoroquinolones for tuberculosis having performed early bacterial activity studies and clinical trials of ciprofloxacin. More recently he has led the group working on the clinical development of\u00a0<\/span>moxifloxacin<\/span>\u00a0in collaboration with the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development as Chief Investigator of the\u00a0<\/span>REMox<\/span>\u00a0TB study. He later went on to be the coordinating investigator for the TB Alliance STAND trial (Shortening Treatment by Advancing New Drugs). He is also one of the Chief Investigators of the\u00a0<\/span>PanACEA<\/span>\u00a0consortium that links European and African research groups in enhancing anti-tuberculosis therapy. \u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He has an extensive record of developing novel mi<\/span>c<\/span>robiological diagnostics. \u202fMost recently, he has developed SLIC (Scattered Light Integrating Collector)<\/span>, which<\/span>\u00a0performs phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing in less than 30 minutes. This innovation recently won a Longitude Prize Discovery Award. In addition he has developed the Molecular Bacterial Load Assay, an innovative way of detecting,\u00a0<\/span>quantifiying<\/span>\u00a0and determining the viability of bacteria in a single test that allows both diagnosis and the monitoring of treatment response.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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