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Introducing the Mali team’s new strategy 

Posted 31st January 2023 by Dr. Mamadou Coulibaly

Following ten years of work with Target Malaria, the team at the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC) has decided to change its strategic direction, with the new aim of…

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“Swarm” – a sonification of the 2016 cage trials by Imperial College London

Posted 18th January 2023 by Jamie Perera

I’m a composer and a sound artist that creates works using sonification, that is, a practice that represents objects with sound. I find that each piece is an active exploration…

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COP15 delegates adopt the new Global Biodiversity Framework

Posted 6th January 2023 by Dr. Samantha O'Loughlin

On December 19th, the most important gathering on biodiversity concluded after two weeks of negotiations. It was regarded as the “last chance” to recover nature and the conference saw a…

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World Malaria Report 2022: New tools are needed to meet global malaria targets

Posted 8th December 2022 by Professor Azra Ghani

Today the World Health Organization published its annual World Malaria Report, finding that the African region continued to shoulder the heaviest burden of malaria, with 234 million cases and 593,000…

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Meet Target Malaria’s Young Scientists

Posted 24th November 2022 by Jacqueline Aidoo

What do you do with Target Malaria, and what do you enjoy about your work? I am currently a PhD candidate with Target Malaria Ghana at the University of Ghana,…

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My nomination as Officer of Academic Palms by the Ministry of Research

Posted 9th November 2022 by Professor Abdoulaye Diabaté

I was delighted to have been decorated by the Ministry of Research in Burkina Faso as an Officer of Academic Palms, in celebration of National Teachers’ Day on October 20th…

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High hopes for malaria prevention: recent results from the R21 vaccine trials

Posted 4th November 2022 by Dr. Alexandre Quach

In September, our hopes were lifted by the results of a phase 2b randomised controlled trial on the R21/Matrix-M antimalaria vaccine. The vaccine showed high efficacy, a good safety profile…

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New Postdoctoral Bioinformatician

Posted 26th October 2022 by Dr. Doko-Miles Thorburn

I am delighted to be joining Target Malaria as a Postdoctoral Bioinformatician, based at the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London. In this role, I will mainly be supporting…

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New population geneticist

Posted 3rd October 2022 by Dr. Giuseppe Emanuele Condorelli

I am delighted to be joining Target Malaria as a population geneticist at Polo d’Innovazione di Genomica, Genetica e Biologia (Polo GGB) in the laboratory of Ecology and Genetics based…

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New report by the Global Fund shows we need to redouble our efforts to end malaria by 2030

Posted 20th September 2022 by Abbey Ssemaganda

Last week, the Global Fund published a new report showing that efforts to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria began to recover in 2022 after the impact of the COVID-19…

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