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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health

New malaria treatment approach shown effective

Anti-inflammatory agents developed by UBC microbiologist Robert Hancock, used in combination with anti-malarial drugs, have been shown to boost survival rates of severe malaria by as much as 50 per cent.

May 31, 2012

UBC researcher invents “lab on a chip” device to study malaria

University of British Columbia researcher Hongshen Ma has developed a simple and accurate device to study malaria, a disease that currently affects 500 million people per year worldwide and claims a million lives.

Feb 28, 2012

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