Purpose
to identify new drugs that destroy adult filarid parasitic worms by genetically engineering the related free-living and genetically tractable model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to carry an essential parasite gene, and using it for drug screens.
Grantee
Division
Global Health
Date
OCTOBER 2013
Region served
GLOBAL
Committed amount
$100,000
Grant topic
Discovery and Translational Sciences
Duration (months)
19
Grantee location
San Francisco, California, United States
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