Integration Of Biostatistics And Mathematical Modelling To Improve The Control Of Infectious Diseases
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$622,655.00
Summary
Improving the control of infectious diseases requires the evaluation of interventions that prevent disease at the population level and successfully treat infections at the individual level. This proposal brings together advanced biostatistical research with mathematical modelling to discover novel methods for evaluating antimalarial treatments and malaria vaccine candidates, leading to new insights in infectious disease control and building capacity in this emerging cross-disciplinary field.
New genomic technologies are revolutionizing biological research. RNA-seq is a recently developed high-throughput sequencing technology that provides scientists with much more detail how genes are regulated and expressed than any earlier technology. New tools developed by Professor Gordon Smyth are allowing researchers to use RNA-Seq technology to more accurately determine which genes are genuinely changing in the development of cancers and in response to cancer treatments.