Investigating Type I Interferon-mediated immune-suppression during Plasmodium infection

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1028641

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Some infections tend to afflict us only once in our lifetimes, for example chickenpox. This is because our bodies develop immunity to these infections relatively easily. The same is not true for malaria. It is thought that our immune systems are somehow suppressed during this disease. This project aims to understand how the immune system is suppressed during malaria infection, in order that we can block this process, and help our bodies fight this disease more effectively.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $561,617.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cellular Immunology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

T cell response | T cell subset | bone marrow transplantation | cytokines | dendritic cell | infection | interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) | mouse models | plasmodium

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