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Opening the gates for a new therapeutic opportunity in the fight against apicomplexan parasites

Apicomplexan parasites are a diverse group of protozoan parasites, several of which cause important human and animal diseases, such as malaria, cryptosporidiosis and toxoplasmosis. Many of these diseases are endemic in developing countries, which are impacted by the lack of cost-efficient…

New drug leads to treat toxoplasmosis unveiled by collaboration between Washington University, UCSF and the SGC

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the apicomplexan protozoa Toxoplasma gondii and can pose a significant threat to immunocompromised individuals, e.g. those undergoing organ transplantation or chemotherapy and HIV/AIDS patients, who cannot fight back the infection and are thus…

SGC joins European Union Framework Programme 7 grant on Affinomics.

The SGC has been awarded more than 0.5 M Euro as part of a joint EU FP7 -Health grant: 'Protein Binders for Characterisation of Human Proteome Function: Generation, Validation, Application "Affinomics", which encompasses 15 participant labs in eight different European countries for 5 years.

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