DiscoBio News

Malaria research conducted at Griffith University, including that by Professor Avery and the Discovery Biology team, was featured in the ‘Insight’ section of the courier mail. Find the full article here.

Congratulations go to Discovery Biology PhD candidate Tristan Glover, who has won the poster prize at the annual Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery Student Symposium.

In partnership with international collaborators, Discovery Biology has contributed to the characterisation of a potent anti-malarial compound, ELQ-300. Recently published in Science: Translational Medicine, the pre-clinical compound is an inhibitor of mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex  and has demonstrated efficacy in mouse models of malaria. The Griffith University press release can be found here The artcile can be found here    

Professor Vicky Avery and Dr Jeremy Burrows (Medicines for Malaria Venture – MMV) were awarded an ARC Linkage grant of $520,000 to undertake their proposal entitled “Screening Platforms for Malaria Drug Discovery: Identification of new therapeutics”

For several years, Discovery Biology has been the only laboratory in Australia to house an Opera HTS Confocal Imaging System (Perkin Elmer), which has been used extensively in numerous HTS campaigns. We are pleased to announce the arrival of a second Opera system, which will further increase the HCA capacity of Discovery Biology.