Sentences with phrase «of malaria research»

«These findings serve as a critical baseline for tracking the emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance in P. falciparum parasites in sub-Saharan Africa,» says Prof Abdoulaye Djimdé of the Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Science Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali, who is leading the PDNA.

For many members of the PDNA, this home - grown initiative marks a step towards leadership of malaria research activities within their communities.

Tu Youyou has been at the forefront of malaria research for nearly 50 years, and work under her direction has resulted in lifesaving medication for millions.

On April 25, we'll be co-hosting a Twitter chat to discuss the state of malaria research, recent advancements and what still needs to be done to end it.

As the research manager I have strategic oversight and delegated responsibility for the operational management of the Malaria research programme.

«Understanding how and why mosquitoes are genetically different from each other is fundamental to many areas of malaria research» says Dominic Kwiatkowski, one of the project's founders and chair of the Ag1000G data analysis group.

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.

The researchers agree these discoveries are exciting for the future of malaria research.

says entomologist Vinod Prakash Sharma, director of the Malaria Research Center in New Delhi.

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.

Not exact matches

Already we see hints of that: in the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to eliminate malaria; in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to improve schools; in Sean Parker, the founder Napster, pledging $ 600 million for research into cancer and malaria, among other causes.

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 ConsResearch), 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 Consresearch in Dementia) and NatureVest, an investment fund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature Conservancy.

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has donated N50 million to fund NDDC's Professorial Chair on Malaria Elimination and Phytomedicine Research programme at the University of Port Harcourt...

A publicly owned drug research and production utility, operating at cost for public benefit instead of private profit, would use high revenues from drugs that are taken daily or frequently in order to subsidize research and production of low - revenue drugs like vaccines for Ebola, malaria, and other infectious diseases that are used once.

Conducting her dissertation research in the highlands of western Kenya on factors affecting contraction of malaria gave Kacey Ernst insight into why spending time with a community is critical to improving public health.

Eran Bendavid of Stanford University, US, discussing the research in an accompanying Perspective, says: «Averting deaths of young children from malaria or vaccine - preventable diseases such as polio or measles promotes more stable and prosperous societies.

«This app has the potential to help in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world, bringing the concept of mobile healthcare to reality,» said Ali Yetisen, a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, who led the 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.

Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia by the Roman period, long before the Middle Ages, as indicated by research at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine of the University of Zurich with the help of a Roman who died 2,000 years ago.

But when the massive rollout of insecticide - treated bed nets began in Africa in the early 2000s — more than a billion have been distributed — little thought was given to resistance, says Maureen Coetzee, director of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

To make James» malaria - fighting research a reality, millions of mosquitoes would need to be bred in a lab and released into the wild at key intervals.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

Analysing a patient's immune response could be key to quickly and accurately diagnosing malaria, according to research presented on World Malaria Day at the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Emalaria, according to research presented on World Malaria Day at the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (EMalaria Day at the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).

«We are researching the evolution of today's diseases such as malaria to explain why the human body becomes sick at all and how adaptations occur.»

Searching for alternatives, Namita and Avadhesha Surolia, of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Jakkur, India, infected mice with the malaria parasite and then injected them with triclosan.

Research educator Tim Riedel works with a student in the University of Texas at Austin's Freshman Research Initiative on developing a diagnostic tool for malaria, Zika virus and more.

«Artemisinin - based compounds have really been the key to success in pushing back malaria in recent years,» says Timothy Anderson, of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and a co-author on both new studies.

Dr Sian Clarke from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also a principal investigator in the research, said: «This study shows that rapid diagnostic tests can improve the use of artemisinin - based combination therapies — the most effective treatment for malaria — in drug shops, but it's not without its challenges.

We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating malaria.

As part of their research on malaria, the scientists had been collecting mosquitoes in a southeastern village called Bandafassi, where they were often bitten.

Experimental research on drugs, immunology, and the development of malaria is typically done on related Plasmodium species that infect rodents, including laboratory - reared mice.

The research was conducted by MalariaGEN, an international network of scientists and clinicians spread across Africa, Asia and other malaria - endemic regions of the world, largely funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Tom Scott of the Mosquito Research Laboratory at the University of California, Davis, says the work represents «cutting edge science» and provides «previously unattainable insights into long distance movement of malaria parasites».

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Malariacontrol.net What it is: A part of Africa@Home, malariacontrol.net works with population models to determine the best strategy to control malaria — from researching vaccines to deploying mosquito nets.

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.

Previous research had shown that DNA from host animals, and from pathogens such as malaria, is preserved in the blood meals of flies.

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.

The research was conducted by the University of Cape Town (UCT)'s Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D, and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), in collaboration with a team of international researchers.

«The ability of MMV048 to block all life cycle stages of the malaria parasite, offer protection against infection as well as potentially block transmission of the parasite from person to person suggests that this compound could contribute to the eradication of malaria, a disease that claims the lives of several hundred thousand people every year,» said Professor Chibale, Founder and Director of H3D, founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery Research Unit at UCT, and senior author of the paper.

You reported research online showing how the mosquito avoids infection by the malaria parasite as it passes through its body (11 December 2012, newscientist.com), with talk of bioengineering its immune system to prevent transmission altogether.

They then teamed up with another research group to create a gene drive that, unleashed in a lab population of mosquitoes, spread genes that prevent the insects from harboring malaria parasites.

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 Insmalaria 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 InsMalaria Research Institute.

«Our research has demonstrated unequivocally that the AP2 - G transcription - factor protein is essential for flipping the switch that initiates the transformation of malaria parasites in the blood from the asexual stage to the critical sexual stage of their life cycle,» Llinás said.

Scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Research recently uncovered a critical piece in the puzzle of how malaria parasites infect their host.

In their paper entitled, «Malaria in pregnancy alters L - arginine bioavailability and placental vascular development,» Science Translational Medicine, 7 March 2018, Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI) and University of Toronto researchers report that Malawian women with malaria in pregnancy had altered levels of L - arginine which were associated with poor birth ouMalaria in pregnancy alters L - arginine bioavailability and placental vascular development,» Science Translational Medicine, 7 March 2018, Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI) and University of Toronto researchers report that Malawian women with malaria in pregnancy had altered levels of L - arginine which were associated with poor birth oumalaria in pregnancy had altered levels of L - arginine which were associated with poor birth outcomes.

For the trial, Professor Peter Kremsner and Dr. Benjamin Mordmüller of the Institute of Tropical Medicine and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) used malaria parasites provided by Sanaria.

Since then the fund has been quietly accepting proposals for such work and today it rolled out its first large installment of cash, with more than half of the funding going toward shoring up malaria drug research.

With the continuing rise of resistance the research, published in the journal Genome Biology, is key as scientists say that this knowledge could help improve malaria control strategies.

«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.