Location:
The Kirby Institute Level 6 Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
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Contact for enquiries
Rata Joseph +61 (0)2 9385 0900 rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Professor James McCarthy- Senior Consultant Infectious Diseases, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital; Lab Head Professor, Clinical Tropical Medicine, Queensland Institute of Medical Research; and Professor of Medicine, The University of Queensland.
"The human challenge model:facilitating basic and translational research in Malaraia."
Bio:
Professor James McCarthy is a Senior Scientist at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, and an Infectious Disease Specialist at Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. His clinical training was undertaken in Australia the United Kingdom and the United States. He began his research career at the Laboratory for Parasitic Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA before returning to Australia 18 years ago. A major focus of his parasitology research group is undertaking clinical trials that entail deliberate infection of human volunteers with malaria parasites by intravenous injection of Plasmodium-infected red blood cells. Volunteers are then followed in the pre-symptomatic period using a very sensitive test that can detect the DNA of parasites in the blood for up to one week before they become unwell. This system is making it much easier to test new drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tests for malaria.