Principal Research Fellowship #1023636 (Old ID 22478)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Vaccine development against malaria and other complex diseases remains a challenge for the scientific community. A rational approach to vaccine development is to identify the target antigens and epitopes of protective immunity, characterise the mechanisms of protective immunity in animal models and humans, develop and refine vaccine platforms and formulations that induce the desired immune responses against the identified antigenic targets, and down-select candidate vaccines for testing in human clinical trials. My research program encompasses core themes of basic research on immune mechanisms and host-parasite interactions as well as antigen and epitope discovery from genomic sequence data using immunomic approaches, using malaria as a model.
Date
01 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2017
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Vaccines;Immunity;Infectious Diseases
Funding Body
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Amount
153787
Project Team
N/A