Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559396

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559396

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Identifying novel insecticides and their targets: probing Australian arachnid venoms. Insect pests destroy an estimated 2-3 billion dollars of crops in Australia. Insect pests also are responsible for the transmission of many new and re-emerging human, animal and plant diseases threatening health, wellbeing and prosperity. Current insecticides are severely limited by toxicity and/or insect resistance, and some are undergoing use cancellation overseas. Thus there is an urgent need to develop safer and more specific insecticides that are effective against disease vectors and agricultural pest insects, as well as to identify new insecticide targets. This research has a multi-million dollar potential benefit to agricultural, health and pest control sectors

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-02-2005

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $240,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Invertebrate Biology | Toxicology (Incl. Clinical Toxicology) | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Disease distribution and transmission | Agricultural chemicals | Control of pests and exotic species |

Other Keywords

Agricultural chemicals | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Control of pests and exotic species | Disease distribution and transmission | Invertebrate Biology | Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction | Toxicology (Incl. Clinical Toxicology)

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