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TOPIC:
"FIGHTING MALARIA THROUGH RESEARCH"
Co- Organizers: INTI Foundation and Institute
for Medical Research (IMR)
Date:
13 April 2004
ABOUT
THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Mo Klinkert is born on 9 July 1952 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
She is married with two lovely children, and she obtained her PHD
in Biology at University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1979. Mo Klinkert
has worked for 17 years on fundamental and applied questions in parasitology,
with special emphasis on the human parasite, Schistosoma mansoni.
She has been studying biologically relevant proteins, examining them
as targets for vaccination and chemotherapy. In 1999 she joined the
Department of Parasitology in the Institute for Tropical Medicine
of the University of Tubingen, Germany, where she embarked on studies
related to the biology of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
She
was invited to deliver the public lecture in English entitled "Fighting
Malaria Through Research" on 13th April 2004 at 10.00am-11.00am
at the Institute for Medical Research, KL. The admission is free.
Synopsis:
Malaria is the world's most important tropical parasitic disease.
Each year between 300 to 500 million people worldwide catch malaria
and at least 1 million people, mostly children under five, die from
it. Some quick facts on the history of malaria, malaria as a disease
and its impact as a major public health problem will be presented.
The prospects of conquering malaria through research will form the
main focus of the seminar. We will discuss some major advances that
have been made in the last 20 years using a variety of different molecular,
immunological and genetic approaches to understand how the parasite
invades the human host and causes disease.
For
further detail of Dr. Mo's research on malaria, please visit http://www.pamvac.org
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