ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT0991213

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT0991213

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

New drugs for malaria that target histone deacetylases. There is no vaccine for malaria and current drugs are failing, contributing to millions of malaria-related deaths each year. The aim of this project is to develop new drugs to address this significant global health issue. This project will focus on drugs that act in novel ways to existing malaria drugs by targeting enzymes that are involved in altering gene expression in the parasite. These kinds of enzymes are recognised drug targets in other diseases such as cancer. The outcomes of this project will include advances in malaria drug development that build on Australian drug discovery efforts, seeding further funding opportunities from industry and other sources and contributing research training and capacity building in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2014

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $686,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Parasitology | Basic Pharmacology | Microbiology | Infectious Agents

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Infectious diseases | Higher education | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Basic Pharmacology | Biological sciences | Higher education | Infectious Agents | Infectious diseases | Medical Parasitology | Microbiology

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