12 min
Tiny Fly, Deadly Bite Canada Foundation for Innovation
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- Life Sciences
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais.University of Calgary post-doctoral student Chukwunonso Nzelu studies the deadly tropical disease Leishmaniasis.Leishmaniasis is a devastating disease that kills tens-of-thousands of people every year. By studying the sandflies that transmit it, the University of Calgary’s Chukwunonso Nzelu is helping to zero in on a vaccineRaising sandflies is tricky, but with the help of Chukwunonso Nzelu’s expertise, researchers have grown a large, thriving colony of the insects at the University of Calgary’s high-level containment insectarium. It’s a critical resource for studying how the flies transmit Leishmaniasis to humans, with the goal of producing a vaccine against the disease which kills 30 000 people a year. What they learn could also inform the prevention of other insect-borne diseases like Lyme disease and malaria.Return to the collection (https://www.innovation.ca/story/i-picture-my-research-canada)
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais.University of Calgary post-doctoral student Chukwunonso Nzelu studies the deadly tropical disease Leishmaniasis.Leishmaniasis is a devastating disease that kills tens-of-thousands of people every year. By studying the sandflies that transmit it, the University of Calgary’s Chukwunonso Nzelu is helping to zero in on a vaccineRaising sandflies is tricky, but with the help of Chukwunonso Nzelu’s expertise, researchers have grown a large, thriving colony of the insects at the University of Calgary’s high-level containment insectarium. It’s a critical resource for studying how the flies transmit Leishmaniasis to humans, with the goal of producing a vaccine against the disease which kills 30 000 people a year. What they learn could also inform the prevention of other insect-borne diseases like Lyme disease and malaria.Return to the collection (https://www.innovation.ca/story/i-picture-my-research-canada)
12 min