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Wellcome Trust and malaria

The Wellcome Trust is one of the world's leading supporters of research in tropical medicine. Over the last ten years it has funded £150 million of research on malaria, and has supported a number of initiatives that aim to tackle the huge burden of malaria in the developing world.

Major Overseas Programmes

Kenya: the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme based at Kilifi on the Kenyan coast and in Nairobi.
Malawi: the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, based in Blantyre.
South-east Asia: the Wellcome Trust South-east Asia Programme, based in Thailand and Vietnam.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

One of the world's leading centres of genome sequencing and analysis, the Sanger Institute played a key role in the sequencing of the malaria parasite genome.

World Malaria Day 2012: Sustain gains, save lives - invest in malaria: Tremendous progress has been made in the past 20 years of malaria research, but the need for investment is greater than ever, says Marta Tufet. 25/04/2012

Emergence of artemisinin resistance on Thai-Myanmar border raises spectre of untreatable malaria: Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the frontline treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and Myanmar is reported in the 'Lancet'. 05/04/2012

Study provides first direct evidence of effect of malaria on fetal growth: A study of almost 3800 pregnancies has provided the most accurate and direct evidence to date that malaria infection reduces early fetal growth. 10/02/2012

New malaria maps to guide battle against the disease: A new suite of malaria maps has revealed the current global pattern of the disease in unprecedented detail, allowing researchers to see how malaria has changed over several years. 24/01/2012

Counterfeit and substandard drugs threaten crisis in Africa: Hopes of controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts. Unless urgent action is taken, millions of lives could be put at risk. 16/01/2012

75th stories: Nick White, malaria and artemisinin: In one of 14 features to mark the 75th anniversary of the Wellcome Trust, Anjana Ahuja looks at Nick White, Director of the Wellcome Trust's South-east Asia Major Overseas Programme.

Video feature: Kevin Marsh and and the challenges of fighting tropical disease in Africa: In this video Kevin Marsh introduces his work and discusses his most exciting current projects.

Two decades of research in Vietnam: The Wellcome Trust Vietnam Major Overseas Programme is a flourishing clinical research unit embedded in the Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mapping malaria: Integrated maps, combining data from satellites and other sources are providing new insights into malaria interventions. Mun-Keat Looi talks to Abdisalan Noor, a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow in Kenya, on his work in the field of geospatial modelling.

Four species of Plasmodium: There are over 120 species of the parasite genus Plasmodium, but only four of these infect humans to cause malaria.