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Organelle Specific Drug Screening: The Apicoplast

Joseph DeRisi of the University of California, San Francisco in the U.S. will generate a strain of apicoplast-free P. falciparum parasites to identify anti-malarial compounds from the Malaria Box that specifically target this organelle, which is essential for malaria parasite survival.

More information about New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-Malarial Compounds (Round 9)