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LATEST GROUP NEWS

September 2026:

The NIH has awarded  Principal Investigator Dr. Paul Carlier and MPI Dr. Belen Cassera $3.76 Million to develop  irresistible blood stage antimalarials. 

August 2026:

Congratulations to Dr. Bo Zhou for successfully defending his PhD thesis! We wish him well at The Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Vanderbilt.

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Medicinal Chemistry for Global Public Health

Malaria is a scourge in the developing world, affecting 200 million people and killing nearly 450,000 annually. To treat this infected population,  new antimalarial drugs are urgently needed. As such, we are taking a two-pronged strategy to reduce malaria transmission and mortality.

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The Malaria Problem

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