The Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) is a consortium of labs funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of antimalarial drugs.
Hot off the press! We have identified and characterized MFR3, a novel multidrug resistance mediator in P. falciparum. Read all about it in @ACS_Infectious:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Looking to recruit a molecular biologist as a postdoc to our lab to work on Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance and drug modes of action. To join a vibrant team at the Columbia university medical center in New York, working closely with @MedsforMalaria and @MalariaTargetID
Congratulations Dr. David Fidock and team for winning the MMV Project of the Year 2020 Award 👏
Over the past decade, this team has contributed significantly to MMV's portfolio and our efforts against antimalarial resistance.
Read more: bit.ly/38bkP4I
Looking forward to @ElizabethWinze1 giving the Craig Lecture this morning at the Alan Magill Sumposium today at #TropMed20. Superb scientist leading the @MalariaTargetID consortium funded by @gatesfoundation
Need some reading material for the weekend?
Check out this recent paper identifying serine hydrolases as druggable targets in #Plasmodium. Great work from MalDA affiliate labs and collaborators!
A new drug target for stopping the spread of malaria has been found after a @CellReports study led by @DrBoddey blocked Plasmodium falciparum from completing the ‘transmission stage’ of its lifecycle. In collaboration with @Griffith_Uniwehi.edu.au/news/new-drug-ta…
For the first time, global efforts are preventing almost 100 million cases of #malaria every year. 🙌
This is great news, but @WHO's report shows that the decline in cases & deaths has slowed significantly. We must accelerate progress to #EndMalaria. gates.ly/35pLhVO
Check out this @biorxivpreprint article on genome engineering in #malaria parasites from a MALDA member lab! The AT-rich P. falciparum genome is extremely challenging to manipulate, so this is some truly exciting work from Jacquin Niles' group at @MIT!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
With our latest MalDA meeting coming to an end, we would like to celebrate all of the hardworking #malaria researchers that make this collaboration so successful. Thanks for the insightful discussions and great #science!
In vitro selection predicts malaria parasite resistance to dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitors in a mouse infection model stm.sciencemag.org/content/1…