We are in full swing recruiting participants for the BIO-004 clinical trial, which will tell us how people learn to switch off damaging immune responses to malaria parasites. We think this can tell us how children become immune to severe forms of malaria after only a handful of infections and without being able to effectively kill parasites. This could be game-changing for malaria immunology and disease control, and we couldn’t be more excited to get started after 5 years of planning.
We expect the trial to kick off in June 2024 and run for about 20 months. this will give us all of the samples we need to answer our questions (and keep us busy to retirement). To get everyone up to speed we’ve posted a video that explains the BIO-004 trial and the science behind this study. If you come back each month you’ll hear all of our trial and research-related news, as well as updates on our other big lab projects.
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