Super Science Fellowships - Grant ID: FS100100050

Funded Activity Summary

Nanoimaging the cellular architecture of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The immediate benefit of this work will be in the understanding and treatment of malaria - a disease that kills approximately 1 million children annually. The ability to image the three-dimensional structure of cells at high resolution will allow us to ask fundamental questions about the cellular architecture of the malaria parasite and to design novel antimalarial strategies. By developing new methods for correlating structure and elemental location, the work in this proposal will offer a new paradigm for the study of cellular function and disease. This represents an important advance in the suite of investigative tools available to the biotechology sector and will see a corresponding improvement in our understanding of a wide range of disease states.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 21-10-2010

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Super Science Fellowships

Funding Amount: $278,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques | Protein Trafficking | Other Physical Sciences | Optical Physics not elsewhere classified | Biological Physics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological Physics | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Optical Physics not elsewhere classified | Other Physical Sciences | Protein Trafficking | Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques

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