Purpose
to identify safer drugs for treating the parasitic disease onchocerciasis in people who are coinfected with the Loa loa parasite by developing a small animal model to sustain early stage parasites that can be used for in vivo 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
Buea, South-West, Cameroon
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