Placement of the heat. NIAID spends more on research on malaria.
BETHESDA, MARYLAND - The US government is ratcheting his attack against malaria, a disease which kills up to 1.5 million people per year. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Institute is taking steps to create a shared repository of research materials on malaria, malaria increase its budget to $ 1.8 million -delà the current $ 20 million (see table), and support the DNA sequencing of two new strains of malaria parasites
last year, an international consortium began sequencing the strain deadliest, Plasmodium falciparum , and now NIAID -. the largest donor in the world of malaria research --The adding P. vivax and P. berghei in the list. NIAID repository, meanwhile, will provide high-quality researchers, rare reagents, which Fauci hopes to attract newcomers to the field. The initiative is supported by the NIH director Harold Varmus, who pledged at a meeting in Dakar, Senegal, last winter to help build a new network, based in African malaria researchers ( Science , 17 January, p. 299). Varmus also spoke of the project at Columbia University last month, saying, "It's time for malaria and other tropical diseases called on exotic alcoves in which medical schools have traditionally housed and put them in the flow "of biology.
Varmus and other leaders of the NIH plan to meet European and African health officials in the Netherlands July 7 to examine 130 research proposals, they requested last winter and develop a shared funding plan . Said Stephen Hoffman, researcher malaria US Navy: "This is very exciting morale building aspects, I hope translates [long-term] funding."
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