Dissection of protein export in Plasmodium

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1006091

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The extraordinary virulence of malaria parasites is in part due to their ability to export hundreds of proteins into their host cell to obtain nutrients and avoid the immune system. Recently the investigator has discovered the machinery that provides the gateway for these proteins to enter the host cell. She now aims to characterise this machinery and dissect its functional significance in vivo, so that strategies that block this crucial process can be developed to kill the parasite.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Career Development Fellowships

Funding Amount: $493,946.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Parasitology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

animal model | immune evasion | malaria | malaria therapy | pathogenesis | plasmodium | virulence

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