CTEGD faculty member Jessica Kissinger is collaborating with Emory and Georgia Tech as part of the Malaria Host-Pathogen Interaction Center....
The Tarleton Research Group has discovered a new way to direct a vaccine to the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a leading cause of death among young to middle-aged adult in areas of South America where it is endemic....
Jessica Lopes da Rosa-Spiegler, a postdoctoral research fellow in biochemistry and molecular biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, received $51,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study Trypanosoma brucei, a parasite that infects humans and cattle in certain parts of Africa....
Kevin Vogel, a postdoctoral associate in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences' entomology department, received $110,000 from the National Institutes of Health. The funding is part of a two-year grant to study reproductive hormones in mosquitos. Mosquitos transmit several major human diseases, including malaria...
Jessica Kissinger is a molecular geneticist whose research on the evolution of disease and the genomes of eukaryotic pathogenic organisms—Cryptosporidium, Sarcocystis, Toxoplasma and Plasmodium (malaria) among them—has led her to perhaps the emerging issue among research scientists: managing data....
UGA researchers have been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how two commonly administered drug combinations work to remove larvae from the bloodstream of people infected with lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis....
UGA geneticist Jessica Kissinger recently received a Brazilian Special Visiting Professor Award from Brazil's national science research agency, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, as part of its "Science Without Borders" program. The award will help Kissinger and her South American colleagues expand...