University of York Receives $13.6 for Malaria Research – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), part of the University of York, has received a $13.6-million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to complete research on a plant that could help alleviate the global shortage of effective treatments for malaria—a disease that kills more than one million people every year, most of them children in Africa. The Centre, part of the Biology Department at York University, has been working on a fast-track breeding research programme for the plant Artemisia annua—currently the sole source of the leading anti-malarial drug, artemisinin.

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