Plasmodium Enolase: A Novel Candidate for a Multi Stage Broad spectrum anti-malarial Vaccine

by Prof. Gotam K. Jarori (Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR)

Wednesday 3 May 2017, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-66 (Mumbai)

"Malaria is largely a preventable and curable disease that still inflicts ~200 million people a year and kills about half a million, mostly children in poor parts of the world. In our recent efforts towards understanding Structure Activity relationship in a Plasmodium protein, we came across an antigenic epitope that has potential to be a candidate for a multi-stage broad spectrum anti-malarial vaccine. In this talk, I will describe the recent findings from our lab and discuss their implications to current search for an effective vaccine against malaria."