Within 2009 the lab participated in two collaborative efforts that were awarded with competitive grants. The program TransMalariaBlock and the program FONCICYT-2008 /95294 (duration 4 and 2 years respectively).
TransMalariaBlock is a collaboration of European (IMBB, Imperial College, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Camerino) and African laboratories (Institut de Recherche en Science de la Sante (IRSS)/ Burkina Faso , University of Makerere, Uganda). The aim of TransMalariaBlock is to validate molecules with antiplasmodial activity (antimalaria drugs), to develop transmission blocking vaccines (TBVs) and to generate genetically modified mosquitoes refractory to malaria parasites.
FONCICYT-2008/95294 is a tripartite collaboration among IMBB, Mexican laboratories (Instituto National de Salud Publica, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico) and the Oxitec Ltd based in Oxford . This program is 50% funded by the European Union and 50% by the Mexican goverment and aims to develop methodologies for compating malaria and dengue, two important diseases for Mexico and Latin America.
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Title: Desarrollo de los mosquitos transgénicos resistentes a la transmisión de la malaria y dengue |
| Funding Source: Conacyt/FP7 |
Participation: Partnership |
| Contract Number: |
Budget (for the team): 191.398 euros |
| Duration: 2009-2011 |
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Title: Malaria Transmission Blocking by Vaccines, Drugs and Immune Mosquitoes: Efficacy Assessment and Targets |
| Funding Source: EU/FP7 |
Participation: Partnership |
| Contract Number: under negotiation |
Budget (for the team): 247.750 euros |
| Duration: 2009-2013 |
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Title: ProFI-Proteomics Facility at IMBB |
| Funding Source: EU/ Capacities-FP7-REGPOT-2008-1 |
Participation: Partnership |
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Total Budget: 1.000.000 euros |
| Duration: 2009-2012 |
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Title: Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite |
| Funding Source: EU/FP6/BioMalPar |
Participation: Partnership |
| Contract Number: LSH-CT2004-503578 |
Budget (for the team): 190.000 euros + a graduate student fellowship |
| Duration: 01/04/04-31/12/09 |
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Title: Establishment of a Parasite Genetic Manipulation laboratory |
| Funding Source: Bodosakis Foundation |
Participation: Partnership |
| Contract Number: DONATION |
Budget (for the team): 60.000 euros |
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Title: A functional study of matrix metalloproteases in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae with emphasis in their roles during parasite/mosquito midgut interactions |
| Funding Source: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology (HGSRT) |
Participation: Coordination/Single PI |
| Contract Number: 03??879 |
Budget (for the team): 51.000 euros |
| Duration: 01/01/06-31/12/08 |
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Title: Using molecular markers in a comparative study of interactions of P. berghei and P. falciparum ookinetes with the midgut of Anopheles |
| Funding Source: HGSRT |
Participation: Coordination |
| Contract Number: ??2912/7-3-05 |
Budget (for the team): 12.000 euros |
| Duration: 01/04/05-31/03/07 |
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Title: Post-genomic and proteomic functional study of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae and the Plasmodium parasite |
| Funding Source: HGSRT |
Participation: Coordination |
| Contract Number: ??5243 |
Budget (for the team): 100.000 euros |
| Duration: 01/05/04-31/10/06 |
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Title: A study of Plasmodium proteases focussing on ookinete/midgut interactions |
| Funding Source: WHO/TDR |
Participation: Coordination/single PI |
| Contract Number: V30/181/259 |
Budget: 104.681 euros |
| Duration: 01/12/03-31/05/06 |
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Title: Development of the tetracycline dependent transactivator (tTA) system for the functional analysis of genes in anopheline mosquitoes |
| Funding Source: EU/Marie Curie Return Fellowship |
Participation: Coordination/single PI |
| Contract Number: HPMF-CT2000-00815 |
Budget: 51.600 euros |
| Duration: 01/08/01-31/07/02 |
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