Tropical diseases: Translating discoveries into better health (Old ID 24683)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Our overall working hypotheses are: 1. The rational design of tropical disease vaccines and other therapeutics requires improved understanding of immunology, host-parasite interactions and application of innovative bioengineering. 2.Improved interventions will be required to eliminate tropical infectious diseases. Our Specific Aims are: 1. Discover pathogenic and immune mechanisms, protective antigens, biomarkers and therapeutic targets for the control of tropical infectious diseases. 2. Develop new vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. 3. Optimise human pathogen challenge models to study host-pathogen interactions and test new vaccines and therapeutics. 4. Develop and test new clinical and public health interventions in disease-endemic settings.
Date
01 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2022
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Malaria;Vaccine;Diagnostic;Protein;Therapeutic;Immunomodulatory
Funding Body
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Amount
4400810
Project Team
Alex Loukas