UGA Receives $5.6 Million Grant for Vaccine Research 9/24/2004
Athens, Ga. Rick Tarleton, University of Georgia Distinguished Research
Professor of Cellular Biology, received a five-year, $5.6 million grant
from the National Institutes of Health earlier this month to further
research aimed at developing and testing therapeutic vaccines to prevent
and treat a protozoan parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi), which causes Chagas
disease. ...more
UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives NIH Fogarty grant to train Brazilian scientists
Athens, Ga The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
(CTEGD) at the University of Georgia has received a $1.2 million,
five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty
International Center to provide informatics training to Brazilian
researchers. ...more
Researchers at University of Georgia provide first look at protein expression in Chagas Disease causing parasites
5/14/2005
The first-ever global survey of protein expression in the four
lifecycle stages of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes the
disease, could help lead to vaccine discovery and new drug targets,
according to Rick Tarleton, a cellular biologist in UGA's Center for
Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) and lead researcher.
...more
New genetic model could help scientists understand essential
aspects of parasite biology, leading to better understanding of
diseases that sicken millions
A team from the University of
Georgia and Montana State University has developed a way to conduct
powerful genetic studies directly in the parasite using Toxoplasma as a
model.
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Illinois professor named university's first GRA Orkin Eminent Scholar 4/26/2004
Roberto Docampo, a professor of veterinary pathology at the University of
Illinois, has been named the first Georgia Research Alliance Barbara and
Sanford Orkin Eminent Scholar in Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and
Cellular Biology at UGA. ...more
UGA partners with University of Pennsylvania for bio-defense and infectious disease research project
Athens, Ga. The University of Georgia signed a five-year $3.0 million
subcontract to develop a database that will contain comprehensive
information about some pathogens on a bio-defense priority list
established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Disease. The subcontract teams UGA with the University of Pennsylvania
to develop a virtual database that serves as a single access point to
genomic and related information about parasites in the phylum
Apicomplexa, which includes organisms that cause malaria and
toxoplasmosis.
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'A fitting tribute' - Coverdell Center Unveiled
Hundreds of University of Georgia students, staff and visitors turned
out on a warm Friday afternoon to hear former president George H.W.
Bush and tour the new building memorializing his old friend, the late
U.S. Sen. Paul D. Coverdell. ...more
Professor tries to unearth secrets of a deadly worm 8/21/2005
ATHENS, Ga.- Dan Colley doesn't look like a Brazilian celebrity. The
affable New York native doesn't even speak fluent Portuguese. But the
University of Georgia professor's study of a deadly parasite just won
him the Brazilian Presidential Medal for Scientific Merit, the
country's highest scholarly honor.
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The Plasmodium genome database - Designing and mining a eukaryotic genomics resource.
As reported elsewhere in this issue (M. J. Gardner et al. Nature 419,
498-511; 2002), a reference genome sequence for the human malaria
parasite Plasmodium falciparum is now complete. But how are researchers
to access P. falciparum genome sequence data, integrate this resource
with other relevant data sets, and exploit the resulting information
for functional studies, including identification of novel drug targets
and candidate vaccine antigens? ...more
Colley named director of disease study center at UGA 2/07/2002
ATHENS, Ga. The University of Georgias Center for Tropical and Emerging
Global Diseases recently named Daniel Colley as its new director. Colley,
the former director of the division of parasitic diseases at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, is a 30-year veteran of immunology
research ...more
Discovery by UGA researchers could lead to better drugs to treat a severe parasitic infection in AIDS patients and children 9/19/2004
In 1993, a water-borne parasite in Milwaukee was responsible for an
estimated 403,000 cases of acute gastrointestinal disease, and the outbreak
revealed that patients with AIDS are at an especially grave risk. About
half of Milwaukees residents with AIDS were infected with the parasite, 68
percent of whom died within six months. This parasite, Cryptosporidium
parvum, is highly resistant to standard water treatment, which has caused
additional concerns over its potential use in bioterrorism. ...more
Sanford Orkin gift new creates chair in parasite-disease center 11/08/1999
Atlanta businessman Sanford H. Orkin is contributing $750,000 to help
establish a new UGA faculty position for an expert on some of the
worlds most deadly parasitic diseases.
The gift will be applied toward a new Georgia Research Alliance Eminent
Scholar position in UGAs Center for Tropical and Emerging Global
Diseases. ...more
Prof researches parasites for new way to get the bugs out of disease 2/02/2004
Jessica Kissinger is always in a hurry. An airplane may be waiting to take
this expert in parasite genomics to a conference in Europe or Asia. A
student may be standing in the hall waiting to discuss a grade. And she
needs to get back to her research, which is helping re-imagine how
scientists use computers to study disease. ...more
UGA's new Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases is
taking aim at infections and parasites that kill 17 million people
worldwide each year
In earnest, three-week stretches, Bolyn Hubby hunches over a microscope in
a tiny lab above a medical clinic in Buenos Aires. Downstairs, patientssome
of whom are dying from a variety of tropical diseasesoffer samples of their
blood. Hubby diligently applies test vaccines developed at UGA to drop
after drop of infected blood, hoping to find a glimmer of acquired
resistancea clue in someone's blood that might point the way to a
successful vaccine. ...more
Ellison Medical Foundation awards grant of $275,400 to UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases 1/13/2004
A new five-year grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation will provide
international research training opportunities of two-to-three months for
University of Georgia undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral
scholars. ...more
Kojo Mensa-Wilmot is helping understand the biology of tropical diseases. 3/18/2004
Although treatments exist for numerous parasitic diseases, medical help in
the tropics is not always available, and the treatments themselves can be
deadly. Millions die or suffer from disfiguring lesions each year.
Mensa-Wilmot and his lab are focusing on understanding diseases caused by
Leishmania and T. Brucei, parasites that Mensa-Wilmot calls "cousins in
crime."...more
Researchers at the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases study a host of parasite-borne diseases. Winter 2000
Researchers at the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
study a host of parasite-borne diseasesResearchers at the UGA Center
for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases study a host of
parasite-borne diseases
Julie Moore, who joined the team last year as an assistant professor of
medical microbiology and parasitology, deals with one of the most
challenging and pernicious: malaria, which occurs in high incidence in
sub-Saharan Africa and other lesser-developed nations. She spends up to
four months each year in Kenya, India and other affected areas trying
to
understand the complexities of the disease. ...more
Bug Zappers 12/01/2000
Researchers at the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
study a host of parasite-borne diseases some well known, some youve
probably never heard of, but all a threat to global health.
...more