ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT0990350

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT0990350

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetases as drug targets in Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria is a major worldwide infectious disease. The disease kills around 2 million people every year, and current drugs are increasingly failing due to parasite drug resistance, creating an urgent demand for new drugs, that inhibit different targets. The Fellow will study a new class of parasite drug targets, the transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase enzymes to find novel inhibitors. Compounds blocking these enzymes may lead to new drugs to combat malaria.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-01-2010

End Date: 03-01-2014

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $686,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Parasitology | Medical Microbiology | Cell Metabolism

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Infectious diseases | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics) |

Other Keywords

Cell Metabolism | Infectious diseases | Medical Microbiology | Medical Parasitology | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics)

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