Long-lasting and fast-acting<em> in vivo</em> efficacious antiplasmodial azepanylcarbazole amino alcohol (Publications)
With approximately 429,000 deaths in 2016, malaria remains a major infectious disease where the need to treat the fever symptoms, but also to provide relevant post-treatment prophylaxis, is of major importance
Antiprotozoal activities of epimeric aminobicycles (Publications)
sleeping sickness, and Plasmodium falciparum K-1, a multiresistant protozoan parasite which causes Malaria tropica. The results are compared to the activities of their formerly synthesized stereoisomers and
Synthesis and evaluation of beta-carbolinium cations as new antimalarial agents based on pi-delocalized lipophilic cation (DLC) hypothesis (Publications)
efficacy. beta-Carbolinium compounds exhibit medium suppressive activity in vivo against rodent malaria
Long-lasting and fast-acting<em> in vivo</em> efficacious antiplasmodial azepanylcarbazole amino alcohol (Publications)
With approximately 429,000 deaths in 2016, malaria remains a major infectious disease where the need to treat the fever symptoms, but also to provide relevant post-treatment prophylaxis, is of major importance
Synthesis of novel diazabicycles and their antiprotozoal activities (Publications)
potencies against Plasmodium falciparum K-1 and Trypanosoma b. rhodesiense, the causative organisms of malaria tropica and the East African form of sleeping sickness
How many mosquito nets are needed to achieve universal coverage? Recommendations for the quantification and allocation of long-lasting insecticidal... (Publications)
Long-lasting insecticidal nets are an effective tool for malaria prevention, and "universal coverage" with such nets is increasingly the goal of national malaria control programmes. However, national level campaigns
The three <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>Aurora-related kinases display distinct temporal and spatial associations with mitotic structures in asexual... (Publications)
Aurora kinases are crucial regulators of mitotic cell cycle progression in eukaryotes. The protozoan malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum replicates via schizogony, a specialised mode of cell division ch [...] throughout schizogony as well as in the non-dividing gametocyte stages, which are essential for malaria transmission. We demonstrate that all three PfARKs display distinct and highly specific and exclusive
A <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> PHIST protein binds the virulence factor PfEMP1 and comigrates to knobs on the host cell surface (Publications)
Uniquely among malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (iRBCs) develop membrane protrusions, known as knobs, where the parasite adhesion receptor P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane [...] formation and the associated iRBC adherence to host endothelium are directly linked to the severity of malaria and are functional manifestations of protein export from the parasite to the iRBC. A family of exported
A worldwide map of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> K13-propeller polymorphisms (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent gains in reducing the global burden of malaria are threatened by the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins. The discovery that mutations in portions of a P. [...] analyzed the K13-propeller sequence polymorphism in 14,037 samples collected in 59 countries in which malaria is endemic. Most of the samples (84.5%) were obtained from patients who were treated at sentinel
Two successful decades of Swiss collaborations to develop new anti-malarials (Publications)
Over the last two decades there has been a renaissance in the pipeline of new drugs targeting malaria, with the launch of new products that help save the lives of children throughout the world. In addition [...] Third, the emergence of product-development-partnerships, in this case led by the Medicines for Malaria Venture, based in Geneva, has helped to catalyze the development of new medicines and bring the community
