Anthony, R.M.

Research coordinator Tuberculosis
KIT Biomedical Research
Mycobacterial research / Tuberculose
Phone: +31 (0)205665450
E-mail: r.anthony@kit.nl

Richard M Anthony, PhD research coordinator for the tuberculosis research group in KIT-Biomedical Research, is a Molecular Biologist who joined the KIT in 2001. Specialized in molecular diagnostics, he has extensive experience in development of molecular tests for bacterial drug resistance, bacterial and fungal typing, and microarray based diagnostics.
Between April 1996 and May 2001 he was employed by King's College London, UK, on the epidemiology and rapid detection of bacterial infection with a focus on the laboratory diagnosis of hospital acquired infection particularly MRSA.Currently, his work is directed towards improving tuberculosis diagnostics, understanding the acquisition of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and adapting and simplifying multiplex assays methods so they can be more widely applied for diagnostic use. This ranges from work on improving the provision of smear microscopy to the development of multiplex molecular assays to study drug resistance in M. tuberculosis.The work of the KIT-TB group was instrumental in the recent development and provision of LED fluorescent microscopy for TB diagnostics. Our work also explores the mechanism of drug resistance acquisition in tuberculosis and the detection of drug resistance in multiple international research projects and collaborations with industry.

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