James Bennett, at the University of Michigan,
studies schistosomes in Egypt where praziquantel has been used more heavily than anywhere else in the world.
After observing important similarities between planarians and their disease - causing cousins, Newmark and former postdoctoral fellow Jim Collins (now a professor at UT Southwestern) took the radical step of applying their knowledge of planarians to
studying schistosome biology.
Not exact matches
Insights gained from our basic research on planarian biology have also led us to
study parasitic flatworms, like
schistosomes and tapeworms.