Coffee-ring diagnostic offers hope in poorest regions

October 21, 2009

Vanderbilt University receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research

Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rick Haselton, titled “Coffee Ring Stain Diagnostics for Malaria.”

By VUMC News and Communications

March 12, 2007

Vanderbilt Investigators testing vaccine to slow malaria’s global march

Infectious diseases researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center are seeking healthy adults to help test a vaccine for malaria.

May 31, 2013

Chemical causes kidney failure in mosquitoes: study

Researchers are targeting a possible new weapon in the fight against malaria, science that could also be applied in the fight against other devastating mosquito-borne illnesses, according to a Vanderbilt study published in PLOS ONE.

By Jill Clendening