{"id":4049,"date":"2013-03-25T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:43","slug":"can-malaria-be-wiped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2013\/03\/can-malaria-be-wiped-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Malaria Be Wiped Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jury is still out on this question, but a new drug target has raised the hopes of malaria researchers that the disease can be treated more effectively in the future. The new compound, ELQ-300, was developed by a team of scientists at Portland&#8217;s Veteran Affairs Medical Center led by <a title=\"Michael Riscoe, VA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/xd\/education\/schools\/school-of-medicine\/departments\/basic-science-departments\/molecular-microbiology-and-immunology\/research\/parasitology\/riscoe.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Riscoe<\/a> that included Reed visiting professor <strong>Aaron Nilsen<\/strong> and <strong>Kip Guy, &#8217;89<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"ELQ-300\" src=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/content\/cen\/articles\/91\/i12\/New-Molecular-Weapon-Against-Malaria\/_jcr_content\/articlebody\/subpar\/articlemedia_0.img.jpg\/1363906361078.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first paper describing ELQ-300 has just appeared in Science Translational Medicine (<strong>DOI:<\/strong> <a title=\"Science Translational Medicine\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.3005029\" target=\"_blank\">10.1126\/scitranslmed.3005029<\/a>) with Aaron as the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">lead author<\/span>, and popular accounts have appeared this week in <a title=\"C&amp;ENews\" href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/91\/i12\/New-Molecular-Weapon-Against-Malaria.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chemistry &amp; Engineering News<\/strong><\/a> (2013 March 25, p. 35) and on the front page of the <a title=\"Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/health\/index.ssf\/2013\/03\/portland_scientists_new_malari.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Oregonian<\/strong><\/a> (2013 March 21).<\/p>\n<p>But stay tuned. Aaron tells me that <strong>Galen Miley &#8217;13<\/strong>, his thesis student, has prepared a compound that is even more effective than ELQ-300.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6\/11\/2013 update:<\/strong> Randie Dalziel just told me about this recent article: <a title=\"Science News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/349137\/description\/Experimental_malaria_drug_may_be_a_hot_prospect\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Experimental malaria drug may be a hot prospect | Body &amp; Brain | Science News<\/strong><\/a>, April 20, 2013, vol. 183 #8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury is still out on this question, but a new drug target has raised the hopes of malaria researchers that the disease can be treated more effectively in the future. The new compound, ELQ-300, was developed by a team&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2013\/03\/can-malaria-be-wiped-out\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Can Malaria Be Wiped Out?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-current-students","category-exciting-news","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}