Sentences with phrase «malaria research»
"Malaria research" refers to the scientific study and investigation of the disease called malaria. Researchers are trying to understand how the disease spreads, its causes, effects, and possible treatments or prevention methods. Full definition
The researchers agree these discoveries are exciting for the future of malaria research.
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Agre, currently the director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, is now using his basic science discoveries about aquaporins to understand the role the proteins play in the parasite that causes malaria.
Umberto's been involved in malaria research for more than 20 years.
And we are very fortunate to have received an ICEMR — I - C - E-M-R — International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research for Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Wistar will collaborate with Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on this research effort.
Nosten worked out of a bamboo hospital — the first Shoklo Malaria Research Unit.
That's the «nightmare scenario,» adds François Nosten, who runs the Mahidol group's Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, along the border with Myanmar.
But the letter — which triggered media stories warning of a «superbug» on the loose — and White's warning irked many in the famously contentious malaria research community, where personal animosities and longstanding grudges run deep.
Senior researcher Dr Sarah Dunstan from the University's Nossal Institute for Global Health describes the signifcance of new malaria research for developing future treatments.
«Dr. Cassera has taken a leap forward in malaria research by identifying a unique pathway at an essential step in parasite development and transmission to mosquitoes,» said Vern Schramm, the Ruth Merns Chair and Professor of Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and former postdoctoral mentor to Cassera.
These objectives are at the heart of the PDNA, which was founded by a cadre of African malaria research scientists who saw a need to coordinate their research.
Today you are announcing grants totaling $ 5.7 million to six global partnerships working on innovative drugs and vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and Chagas disease, with almost half of the money going toward malaria research.
11/12/09 Groundbreaking Advances in Malaria Research Show Promise for Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
In his office at Mahidol University, Nick White is surrounded by yellowing monographs of old malaria research and overlooked by a wall - mounted mosaic of drug packets made by his daughter.
A few weeks ago we wrote about the misinformation the Animal Justice Project was spreading about malaria research at the Karolinska Institute.
Professor Cowman has been integral to the global malaria research effort, leading studies into how the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria develop drug resistance as well as understanding the biology of how malaria parasites invade and remodel red blood cells in humans.
Ruth Nussenzweig has been conducting malaria research since the 1960s.
For many members of the PDNA, this home - grown initiative marks a step towards leadership of malaria research activities within their communities.
In 2008, he became director of a new malaria research capacity development initiative, supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Malaria Capacity Development Consortium, which supports a post-graduate malaria training programme in five universities in sub-Saharan Africa.
The technical difficulties in expressing Plasmodium proteins in a recombinant functional form has presented difficulties both for basic malaria research and vaccine development [12].
This solo show in Berlin has taken up most of my year, but I have also just completed a new work in collaboration with scientists who are undertaking groundbreaking malaria research for the new Science Gallery at the University of Melbourne.
For the research, conducted in the insectary at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, Dimopoulos and colleagues modified Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes by deleting the gene FREP1, which encodes an immune protein, fibrinogen - related protein 1.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry University Professor and Director Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Dept Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and Dominic Kwiatkowski receive funding from the Wellcome Trust, which publishes Mosaic.
Among his many honors, he received the Life Time Achievement Award in malaria research from the BioMalPar European Organization; was elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2003); elected member of the American American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002); was the recipient of Bristol Myers Squib «Freedom to Discover» Award for distinguished achievement in Infectious Diseases (2006).
PPQ resistance is a «disaster,» says Peto's boss, Arjen Dondorp, who is the head of malaria research at MORU.
Until recently he was a founding member and VP of J.P. Morgan Sustainable Finance where he helped develop innovative investment structures such as GHIF (the world's first VC fund for HIV & Malaria Research), Dementia Discovery Fund (a first - of - its kind collaborative effort to accelerate fundamental research in Dementia) and NatureVest, an investment fund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature Conservancy.
But Tsiri Agbenyega, head of the Malaria Research Unit at Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana and chairman of the RTS, S Clinical Trials Partnership Committee, remains optimistic.
For example, the Malaria Research Training Centre in Mali, which had significant TDR / RCS support in its early years, is now highly competitive in malaria research.
Welcome to feeding time at Mbita Point, a malaria research station on the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya — one of the most malaria - infested places on Earth.
The findings, described in two related papers published online April 5 in Science and The Lancet, were called «a tour de force» by David Sullivan, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, who was not involved in the new research.
Today, Mumbengegwi serves as leader of the pharmaceutical program at the university and as manager of the Malaria Research Laboratory.
Also in attendance were most of the big funders in malaria research in the United States.
says entomologist Vinod Prakash Sharma, director of the Malaria Research Center in New Delhi.
Professor Ogobara K. Doumbo one of the co-authors from the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako in Mali, said: «This type of discovery is made possible by a strong collaboration between malaria investigators in the field and northern collaborators who have the technology platform and the capacity to analyse big data.
One likely casualty of the cuts is malaria research.
Support was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Bloomberg Philanthropies, CNRS, Inserm, the University of Strasbourg, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
This is an Anopheles gambiae mosquito being injected with hemolymph for a malaria research study.
Deleting a single gene from mosquitoes can make them highly resistant to the malaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new paper from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute.
During grad school, while at a malaria research conference, I approached the keynote speaker to ask a few questions.
«It's for HAND (Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases), our malaria research program that looks for new drugs,» he explains.
«If you can replace a natural population of dengue - transmitting mosquitoes with genetically modified ones that are resistant to virus, you can stop disease transmission,» says study leader George Dimopoulos, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and a member of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
The chronically underfunded field of malaria research has just received a major new impetus.
«This is a very nice study,» says Nirbhay Kumar, a malaria researcher at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
According to Neena Valecha of the National Institute of Malaria Research in Delhi, India, who led the trial, arterolane may be available by next year.
I was being offered and recruited to head the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins.
See our malaria research group pages for further details.
He currently heads up the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and he won the Nobel for his discovery of the systems that move water into and out of cells.