Last Updated: 12/12/2025
Targeting commitment to sexual differentiation in Plasmodium
Objectives
This project will develop urgently needed strategies to target gametocytes, and thus block malaria transmission.
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Rationale and Abstract
Efforts to control malaria in endemic areas are very often thwarted by ‘carriers’, who have transmissible parasites in their bloodstream (called gametocytes), but who suffer no symptoms. These gametocytes serve as a reservoir ready to reinitiate disease transmission when mosquito numbers increase.
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Date
Jan 2016 — Dec 2018
Total Project Funding
$518,095
Funding Details
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia, Australia
Grant ID: 1098992
AUD 688,954
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