Congratulations to Bryan Vonasek, MD, pediatric infectious diseases clinical fellow, who recently received a Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award in the amount of $25,000 in direct costs. The two-year award, under the leadership of mentor Anthony Garcia-Prats, MD, MSc, PhD, will support the work entitled, “Novel strategies to improve tuberculosis case finding in children with severe acute malnutrition.” This project will explore the effectiveness of three new non-invasive tests to aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in children with severe acute malnutrition. The study will be conducted in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Project-Malawi in Lilongwe, Malawi.