Donna Huber, Author at Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases

The Cure for Malaria Could be in Your Backyard

Posted on Sep 8, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Research Article

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Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has a disproportionate effect in poor and underdeveloped countries without access to western medicine. According to the WHO’s World Malaria Report, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015 and an estimated 429,000 deaths. Malaria is caused by...

Posted on Sep 8, 2017 in publications

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Evaluation of the larval migration inhibition assay for detecting macrocyclic lactone resistance in Dirofilaria immitis

UGA Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study Hormone Regulation in Mosquitoes

Posted on Sep 6, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Athens, GA--Mosquitoes transmit diseases such as Zika virus, dengue, and malaria to people and other vertebrates worldwide. In a newly funded National Science Foundation (NSF) project, Michael Strand and Mark Brown, both professors in the Department of Entomology and members of the Center for Tropical...

Posted on Sep 2, 2017 in publications

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Bioactive Neolignans and Other Compounds from Magnolia grandiflora L.: Isolation and Antiplasmodial Activity

Posted on Sep 1, 2017 in publications

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Evaluation of ecdysteroid antisera for a competitive enzyme immunoassay and of extraction procedures for the measurement of mosquito ecdysteroids

Trainee Spotlight: Manuel Fierro

Posted on Aug 30, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Trainee Spotlight

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Manuel Fierro is a pre-doctoral trainee in Vasant Muralidharan's Laboratory. He is originally from Ecuador. His family moved to the US when he was 9 years old, and he has lived in Georgia ever since. Manuel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Cellular Biology...

Posted on Aug 25, 2017 in CTEGD Blog

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University of Georgia researchers developing drugs to fight sickness caused by tsetse fly

NIH awards UGA researchers $2.6 million to fight African sleeping sickness

Posted on Aug 23, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Kojo Mensa-Wilmot has received a $2.6 million award from The National Institutes of Health to develop new drugs to treat human African Trypanosomiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness....

Trainee Spotlight: Catherine Smith

Posted on Aug 21, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Trainee Spotlight

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Catherine Smith, a trainee in Julie Moore's lab, is a second-year recipient of our NIH-funded Training Grant....

Posted on Aug 17, 2017 in publications

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Isolation of the New Antiplasmodial Butanolide Malleastrumolide A from a Malleastrum sp. (Meliaceae) from Madagascar

Author: Donna Huber

The Cure for Malaria Could be in Your Backyard

UGA Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study Hormone Regulation in Mosquitoes

Trainee Spotlight: Manuel Fierro

NIH awards UGA researchers $2.6 million to fight African sleeping sickness

Trainee Spotlight: Catherine Smith

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