Signalling during red blood cell invasion by Plasmodium falciparum

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/603720

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Malaria is one of the world's most devastating infectious diseases and is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium falciparum. AMA1 is a parasite surface protein crucial for blood cell invasion but how it works is not understood. We are investigating if AMA1 plays a role in helping the parasite sense when it has contacted a blood cell and should invade. Discovering how parasites attach to and invade bloods cells is a priority for the development of anti-parasite drugs and vaccines

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $357,414.00

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

apical membrane antigen | falciparum | falciparum malaria | intracellular signal transduction | malaria | merozoite invasion | plasmodium | plasmodium falciparum malaria | protein kinases

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