(IN BRIEF) Scientists have identified the first instances of genetic mutations in Anopheles funestus mosquitoes that confer resistance to DDT, a previously widespread insecticide now banned due to environmental concerns. This discovery, made by researchers from the University of Glasgow … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Education, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged DDT, Dr. Francesco Baldini, Fredros Okumu, Genetic Resistance, Ifakara Health Institute, Insecticide Use, Joel Odero, malaria, Mosquitoes, Tanzania, University of Glasgow
(IN BRIEF) Unitaid has allocated over £6 million in new funding to the University of Liverpool-led LONGEVITY project, aimed at enhancing long-acting therapeutics for tuberculosis, malaria, and hepatitis C. Started in 2020, the project has achieved preclinical milestones for long-acting … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Environment, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Non Profit, Science, Switzerland, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged hepatitis C, Infectious Disease Therapeutics, LONGEVITY Project, malaria, partnership, Professor Andrew Owen, Professor Louise Kenny, Professor Steve Rannard, Professor Tariq Ali, Professor Wiebe Van Der Hoek, sustainability, Switzerland, tuberculosis, UNITAID, University of Liverpool
(IN BRIEF) The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), in collaboration with BASF and Promega, is partnering to research and develop innovative insect control tools for combating mosquito-borne diseases like malaria. The project, funded by the Bill & … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Defence, Environment, Germany, Healthcare, Industrial, Management, News, Science
Tagged BASF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Elizabeth A. Caine, Dr. Harold Bastiaans, Dr. Pie Müller, Insect Control Methods, malaria, Mosquito-Borne Diseases, partnership, Promega, Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs), sustainability, Swiss TPH
Accelerating projects on access to medicines, support for vulnerable communities, environmental conservation, and diversity and inclusion Creation of Sanofi Global Health, global nonprofit unit to provide 40 of the world’s poorest countries access to 30 essential medicines (PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 7-Apr-2021 — … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Healthcare, News, Non Profit, Pharma & Biotech, Society
Tagged access to medicines, Cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases, climate change, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR strategy, Diabetes, diversity, environmental protection program, Fabry, Gaucher, healthcare professionals, Inclusion, malaria, nonprofit unit, open letter, Paul Hudson, Pharmaceutical, Planet Mobilization, polio, Pompe diseases, preservation of the environment, rare diseases, Sanofi, Sanofi Global Health, sleeping sickness, support for vulnerable communities, tuberculosis, vaccines, WHO, World Health Organization, Zero plastic packaging
Project Africa GRADIENT calls on local researchers to submit proposals exploring the link between genetic diversity and response to malaria and tuberculosis drugs in African patients. Combined funding commitment of GBP 2.8 million (USD 3.6 million) over five years. Researchers … Read the full press release
Posted in Healthcare, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Society, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Tagged Africa, African genetic diversity, Chagas disease, drug therapeutics, genetic diversity, Genomic, GSK, Human genetics, Leprosy, Lutz Hegemann M.D., malaria, Novartis, Pauline Williams, Prof. Glenda Gray, Project Africa GRADIENT, SAMR, scientific research, sickle cell disease, South African Medical Research Council, therapeutics, tuberculosis
LIVERPOOL, 02-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified a single genetic change in Salmonella that is playing a key role in the devastating epidemic of bloodstream infections currently killing around 400,000 people each year in sub-Saharan … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Science, Technology
Tagged bloodstream, epidemic, HIV, infections, iNTS, malaria, Professor Jay Hinton, Salmonella, ST313, University of Liverpool
Research scientists in Tübingen discover indications that two types of parasites are actually one with several host species – this has consequences for the global battle against the disease Tübingen, Germany, 28-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Tropical medicine experts from Tübingen … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Science
Tagged malaria, Malaria parasites, tropical medicine experts, Tübingen, Yanomami indigenous Indians
It has long been known that people with blood type O are protected from dying of severe malaria. In a study published in Nature Medicine, a team of Scandinavian scientists explains the mechanisms behind the protection that blood type O … Read the full press release
London, 29-4-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) today announced the start of a phase III global programme to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tafenoquine, an investigational medicine which is being developed for the treatment and … Read the full press release
New research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology offers hope to children who are stricken with malaria. Stockholm, Sweden, 25-4-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Malaria can be mild or deadly, especially for children under 5. But there is no way to tell which patients … Read the full press release
Researchers have found a new way to curb the spread of the mosquito-borne parasite. Helsinki, Finland, 02-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Malaria disappears when family size drops to less than four persons per household. This connection was established in an extensive international study … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Finland, Healthcare, Science
Tagged disease, Docent Lena Huldén, Larry Huldén, malaria, population density, size of families, study, University of Guelph, University of Helsinki, use of DDT
14-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Oxford, NIMR Tanzania and Retrogenix LTD, have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red blood cells stick to the sides of … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Education, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged Assistant Professor Louise Turner, Assistant Professor Thomas Lavstsen, blood vessels, combat malaria, DRUGS, endothelial, endothelial protein C, EPCR, malaria, Malaria parasites, malaria symptoms, NIMR Tanzania, parasite, parasite proteins, PfEMP1, regulating blood coagulation, Retrogenix LTD, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, vaccines
21-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint article in this … Read the full press release
Posted in Healthcare, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Cerebrovascular disease, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Diarrhoeal diseases, disability, disease, disease on men, Global health policy, health policy, HIV/AIDS, Ischemic heart disease, Low back pain, Lower respiratory infections, malaria, premature death, Preterm birth complications, Road injury, University College London
Brussels, 29-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — An EU-funded research project aims to start testing a new diagnostic tool for malaria one year ahead of schedule. The pioneering smartphone-like device uses cutting-edge nanotechnology to detect not only the malaria infection but also any drug … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Education, Electronics & Machinery, European Union, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Politics, Science, Society, Technology
Tagged anti-malarial drugs, diagnostic tool, diagnostic tool for malaria, disease, DNA sequencing, DRUGS, EU-funded, handheld diagnostics, Karolinska Institute, Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN, malaria, malaria infection, malaria research, Nanomal, nanotechnology, pinprick of blood, prototype device, QuantuMDx Group, St George’s, University of London, University of Tuebingen, vaccines
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