Fighting Malaria with Moldy Cereal

Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

Debopam Chakrabarti, an infectious disease specialist at UCF, recently received a $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to use fungus-derived compounds to develop better treatments for malaria. He is partnering with Robert Cichewicz, a natural-product chemist from the University of Oklahoma, who has collected over 65,000 fungal isolates mostly from fungi naturally […]

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