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UGA Researcher Seeks to Unlock Secrets of Malaria Parasite

Posted on Jan 31, 2018 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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[caption id="attachment_4511" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Super-resolution microscopy showing malaria parasites infecting human red blood cells. Image credit: Muthugapatti Kandasamy, Biomedical Microscopy Core[/caption] Vasant Muralidharan and his research team at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases are making great strides in understanding how...

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...

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....

Sumiti Vinayak to Develop Conditional Protein Regulation Tool for Cryptosporidium

Posted on Jun 15, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Sumiti Vinayak, an assistant research scientist in Boris Striepen’s laboratory, has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to develop a tool to study the function of essential genes in Cryptosporidium....

Researcher receives $5.2 million to develop affordable diagnostic test for Chagas disease

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Athens, Ga. - An international team of researchers led by infectious disease experts at the University of Georgia has received $5.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a more accurate, affordable diagnostic test for Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that kills more...

UGA researcher receives $1 million for cryptosporidium research

Posted on Nov 2, 2015 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have received $1 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to speed the development of new drugs for the treatment of cryptosporidiosis, a major cause of diarrheal disease and mortality in...

UGA receives $1.25 million for training of tropical, emerging global diseases researchers

Posted on Aug 13, 2015 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases was awarded $1.25 million by the National Institutes of Health to continue training graduate and postdoctoral students over the next five years who can help address the growing threats of parasitic...

Posted on Mar 2, 2015 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Muralidharan receives $150,000 to investigate new drug targets for malaria

UGA researchers to develop new treatment for Chagas disease

Posted on Jan 28, 2015 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers in collaboration with Anacor Pharmaceuticals have received a $5.3 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a new drug for the treatment of Chagas disease, which they hope will be ready to enter clinical trials by 2016. Chagas...

Gates grant supports UGA’s continued fight against infectious disease

Posted on Jan 13, 2015 in CTEGD Blog, Grants

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[caption id="attachment_4108" align="aligncenter" width="601"] Environmental portrait of UGA Research Professor Dan Colley in his lab inside the Coverdell Building.[/caption] Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received an additional $710,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its research into the...

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