Targeting carbohydrate metabolism in Leishmania [ 2016 - ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Prof Malcolm McConville (Principal investigator) ,  Prof Spencer Williams

Brief description There is an urgent need to develop new drugs to treat human leishmaniasis, a disease that causes debilitating and life-threatening diseases in millions of people worldwide. This project will investigate whether it is possible to develop a new generation of drugs that target a novel metabolic pathway in these parasites that we have shown to be essential for virulence.

Funding Amount $854,288.00

Funding Scheme Project Grants

Notes Standard Project Grant