Posted on February 28, 2024
A network of world-class scientists across Africa has entered the global drug discovery arena
Posted on February 13, 2024
We are thrilled to share some big (pun intended) news from the M2PL
Posted on August 17, 2023
The M2PL students participated at the 8th annual Southern African Malaria Research Conference hosted by the South African Medical Research Council.
Posted on June 24, 2023
“I would encourage all postgraduate students to take the leap of faith and apply for that conference you would like to attend even if you are hesitant. After all, you miss 100% of the opportunities you don't take.” These sentiments were shared by Henrico Langeveld, PhD Biochemistry...
Posted on March 29, 2023
Henrico Langeveld had the privilege of presenting at the Protein Kinases of Parasitic Protozoa V Conference.
Posted on October 27, 2022
Malaria remains a serious public health concern and challenges such as malaria parasite drug or antimalarial resistance is impacting heavily on the goal to eliminate the disease.
Posted on July 21, 2022
Despite being fully preventable and treatable, malaria remains a challenging and very complex disease to eliminate.
Posted on May 20, 2022
It is a pleasure to announce that M2PL has graduated 17 students in the Autumn graduations.
Posted on April 25, 2022
The UP ISMC focuses on the human, parasite and vector aspects when addressing malaria control and elimination challenges, and is already making tangible contributions towards mitigating malaria through several approaches.
Posted on April 25, 2022
Nature communications have put together a themed collection that showcases Malaria research toward disease elimination published in the journal. It is exciting that our article ‘Multistage and transmission-blocking targeted antimalarials discovered from the open-source MMV Pandemic Response...
Posted on April 25, 2022
NAS Featured scientist: Dr Dina Coertzen Senior Postdoctoral fellow: Malaria Parasite Biology and Drug Discovery laboratory (M2PL), Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology
Posted on February 23, 2022
We welcome new members to the M2PL group.
Posted on November 12, 2021
Novel kinases play an essential role during asexual proliferation of Plasmodium falciparum parasites
Posted on November 01, 2021
Hilde von Gruning had the priviledge of presenting at the PMP XXXII
Posted on August 18, 2021
Women's Month: Focus on Ms Meta Leshabane
Posted on August 16, 2021
Virtual conference: 6th Malaria Research Conference 2021
Posted on July 12, 2021
Ashleigh van Heerden recently published her work that gives insight on machine learning and the use of chemo-transcriptomic profiles to stratify antimalarials based on their mode of action. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Invited special issue: Apicomplexan genes to drug...
Posted on July 05, 2021
M2PL is featured on this issue of the Faculty newsletter 2021.
Posted on May 17, 2021
Congratulations to all our M2PL graduates The following degrees were conferred to our students on the 5th of May 2021 Meta Leshabane MSc Biochemistry (cum laude) Dore Joubert MSc Biotechnology (cum laude) Suzan Maboane MSc Biochemistry Eunice Claassen BSc Hons Biochemistry cum laude...
Posted on April 25, 2021
Featuring a scientist in Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS): Prof Lyn-Marie Birkholtz (Professor in Biochemistry and Director of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Sustainable Malaria Control. She also leads the Parasite Cluster in the UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria...
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