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Latest News 03/2012

Combination drug treatment can cut malaria by 30 per cent

Malaria infections among infants can be cut by up to 30 per cent when antimalarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12 month period, a three-year clinical trial in Papua New Guinea has shown.

The trial showed the drug regime was effective against both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax...

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$USD1.05 million award to study liver-stage malaria

Malaria researcher Dr Justin Boddey from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has won a $USD1.05 million Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Grant to study the early stages of malaria infection, in the hopes of finding new ways to treat malaria.

Dr Boddey studies the...

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Professor Jane Visvader elected to Australian Academy of Science

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute breast cancer researcher Professor Jane Visvader has been selected to become a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

The fellowship recognises Professor Visvader’s research over the past decade that has identified the rare ‘breast stem cells’ that can give...

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