Identifying malaria PfEMP1 proteins that elicit antibodies associated with protection from cerebral malaria

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1007954

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The malaria parasite changes molecules it uses to cause disease, this alters its appearance so it can escape people's immune response. However some of these molecules are similar in the parasites that cause the most severe disease. We aim to identify these similar molecules because they may make useful vaccines for protecting people from severe malaria disease.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $494,117.00

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

Falciparum malaria | antigenic variation | cerebral malaria | child health | gene expression | infectious diseases | malaria | molecular biology | parasitology

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