Finding therapeutic targets for an opportunistic human fungal pathogen

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/637394

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Penicillium marneffei is a fungus that causes disease in patients with depressed immunity. This project models this infection in zebrafish, which have advantages for modelling infectious disease. It uses fluorescent fungi and fish with fluorescent immune cells to study the way white blood cells fight this infection, and mutant zebrafish and mutant fungi to find new therapeutic targets in the host-pathogen interaction.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $404,068.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Infectious Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

blood dysxrasia | fungal infection | haematology | immune system competency | infection-inflammation | innate immunity | leukocyte | mycoses | zebrafish

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