var Gene Regulation and Antigenic Variation in Malaria
Description: PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Malaria remains one of the most important infectious disease killers in the world today, causing up to a million deaths annually, primarily of young children in sub-Saharan Africa. This project focuses on the ability of malaria parasites to avoid the human immune response and to cause severe disease. A better understanding of these processes will lead to new, novel forms of treatment that will help to relieve the enormous public health burden that malaria inflicts on the developing world.
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $423,800
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2002-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Investigator: KIRK W DEITSCH
Institution: WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
Topic: Malaria Research and Control
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 6
Funder award ID: 5r01ai052390-17
OpenAlex ID: G2931743856