• Question: How long have you studied Malaria and have you had any recent inventions to being close to finding a cure for Malaria?

    Asked by amyyhall to Julian on 15 Mar 2011.
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      Julian Rayner answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      I have been working on malaria for 13 years (scary!). We made a recent discovery about a protein that seems to be essential for parasites to recognise and invade human red blood cells, which makes it a great vaccine or drug target. We are in the early phases of testing that now. This kind of development takes a while, but we are pretty excited.

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