Search results for: antimalarial drug discovery

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4 April 2024

New Discovery Unravels Malaria Invasion Mechanism

In a significant breakthrough, researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and Griffith University’s Institute for...

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5 May 2019
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23 November 2011

Griffith paves way for new antimalarials

The development of new antimalarials which overcome the long-fought challenges of drug resistance is the focus of promising research at...

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24 January 2012

From pet shop owner to malaria researcher

Gillian Fisher had always dreamed of being a scientist so at age 40, she left her world as a pet...

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7 August 2020

GRIDD Director honoured as Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology

Professor Katherine Andrews, Director of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD), has been recognised as a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology for her work on malaria drug discovery.

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6 December 2017

Health research bolstered in latest funding grants

Griffith University research into malaria, gut infections and streptococcus are some of the projects set to benefit fromNational Health and Medical Research Council(NHMRC) 2018 Project Grant funding announced this week.

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16 August 2017

Griffith researchers make inroads into fighting malaria

Griffith University scientists have helped discover new compounds which could help block the transmission of the deadly disease malaria. A team of Griffith researchers has found a novel class of compounds, the hexahydro quinoline (HHQ), with potent activity against the parasite stages responsible for the clinical symptoms of malaria and its transmission to mosquitoes.

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25 November 2015
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31 July 2015
Professor Vicky Avery, from the Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery

New malaria treatment thwarts parasite resistance

Scientistsfrom Griffith Universityhave contributed to a breakthrough identifying and characterising a potent agent that thwarts drug resistance in the parasite...

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