Probing transport pathways of the malaria-infected red cell with animal toxins.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1016839

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Malaria is a serious infectious disease caused by a parasite uniquely adapted to live inside the red cells of its human host. The parasite alters its host cell by creating distinctive transport pathways in the cell membrane. Important to parasite survival, the identities of these pathways are unknown. Animal toxins, among other methods, will be used to identify and characterise these pathways. We aim to understand more about their function, and thereby to develop novel treatments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $350,032.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Receptors and Membrane Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Plasmodium falciparum | antimalarial | infectious diseases | ion transport | malaria | potassium channels | transfection | venom

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ACN 633 798 857