Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0987339

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0987339

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The dynamics of viral latency in chronic infection. Although many acute infections can now be controlled, we still suffer from a large number of chronic infections such as HIV or herpes that cannot be eradicated. Many of these infections persist because they can lie dormant in a 'latent' state. How this latent state is established, and how long it lasts are important to understand if we want to control these infections. We have assembled a team of mathematicians, immunologists and virologists in order to study latent infection at the cellular level, and within infected monkeys. This will provide the first insights into the dynamics of latency - how these cells are produced and die - and should lead to novel approaches to controlling chronic infection.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $510,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Dynamical Systems | Infectious Diseases | Clinical Sciences | Medical Virology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Infectious diseases | Prevention—biologicals (e.g. vaccines) | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics)

Other Keywords

Clinical Sciences | Dynamical Systems | Infectious Diseases | Infectious diseases | Medical Virology | Prevention—biologicals (e.g. vaccines) | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics)

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