Last Updated: 02/08/2024
Next generation malaria vaccines targeting the parasite cell surface
Objectives
In this project unique tools will be used to define sporozoites in precise genetic, protein and immunological detail – using these insights to design and test tomorrow’s malaria vaccines.
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Rationale and Abstract
More than half a million children die each year from malaria infection. Infection starts with a mosquito bite when sporozoites, the single-celled malaria parasite form, are released into the skin. To advance the possibility of an effective, critically needed malaria vaccine.
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Date
Jan 2024 — Dec 2028
Total Project Funding
$1.96M
Funding Details
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia, Australia
Grant ID: 2026574
AUD 2.9M
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