topnaman | Malaria blog

The latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains a large set of malaria articles  including results from the RTS,S vaccine phase 2 trials. RTS,S is the malaria vaccine furthest along in the development pipeline and is managed by a public-private partnership led by GlaxoSmithKline and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (the early [...]

That’s the title of a just released supplement of the Malaria Journal (open access). We know we will need new tools to make malaria elimination feasible (previously discussed here). Largely reviews, the articles do not contain  groundbreaking ideas but are a good summary of opinions and issues surrounding topics ranging from malaria in pregnancy to [...]

The Gates Foundation recently released the 104 funded “exploration” topics from an applicant pool of about 4,000 grants. It’s an interesting initiative (previously mentioned here) and my friend Andrew McKee has already posted a great summary of the grants directly or indirectly related to malaria. It’s interesting to note all the applications I came across [...]

I should begin with a disclaimer - I’m not a malaria vaccine researcher. The idea I’m proposing may be a dead end, or possess some fatal flow unknown to me. Still, from what I do know, it seems to make a lot of sense. I came to this idea after looking into older research regarding [...]

At the beginning of this month Gates announced the second round of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. The original Grand Challenges in Global Health sought to identify the most critical scientific challenges in global health and direct funding towards solving them. The Explorations Initiative, which accepted its first round of applications last spring, seeks to [...]