French Parasitology Alliance For Health Care
Call for new Membership to ParaFrap
10-12-2018
This call aims to unite the best forces of French Parasitology into ParaFrap. Candidates already members of another LabEx are eligible for membership. It is anticipated that 8 new members will be admitted after the 5-year prolongation of the LabEx ParaFrap has been accepted. Applications are accepted now (see instru... Read more
First all-oral treatment approved against THA
19-11-2018
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive scientific opinion of fexinidazole, the first all-oral treatment that has been shown to be efficacious for both stages of sleeping sickness. This approval is a result of clinical trials led by the non-profit research... Read more
Eleonora Aquilini awarded at MPM2018
12-10-2018
Congratulations to Eleonora Aquilini, ParaFrap postdoctoral researcher in Maryse Lebrun's Team, who won one of the “Best Full Length Talks” price at the 2018 (29th) Annual Molecular Parasitology Meeting, for her story on a new perspective on rhoptry secretion in Toxoplasma. She won a free trip and a talk to the AS... Read more
Amandine Guerin - EMBO fellowship
12-10-2018
Amandine Guerin, postdoc in Boris Striepen's lab (Philadelphia, USA - www.striepenlab.org) and former ParaFrap PhD student in Maryse Lebrun's team, received a long-term EMBO fellowship for her postdoctoral research on Cryptosporidium host cell invasion and manipulation. The EMBO Long-Term Fell... Read more
EMBO Workshop : Thank you !
05-10-2018
Dear Participants, Thank you for participating in the EMBO Workshop on Molecular advances and parasite strategies in host infection. We are grateful that you took the time and effort to come and discuss your work at the workshop and we hope you have enjoyed the meeting and the venue. Your feedback and suggestions... Read more
Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases
12-09-2018
Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has a newly created position to enhance and expand its international profile on NTD research which is a priority within LSTM’s strategic plan. Click here for more information and how to apply. ... Read more
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Para Frap
ParaFrap, the French Alliance for Parasitology and Health Care, is a LabEx (Laboratory of Excellence) created by the French Ministry of Research in 2012 and regrouping currently 17 leading Parasitology groups in France
Objectives
Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Trypanosoma, Leishmania, Entamoeba, Theileria
- New scientific opportunities are provided by the recently available genome information for most major parasites and their hosts
- Combining the state-of-the-art of fundamental research and translational applications we expect to defeat major parasitic diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, African trypanosomiasis, amoebiasis and theileriosis
- herapeutic involvements (diagnostics, drugs and vaccines)
- ParaFrap will contribute to the future through a national student training
PhD program termed "ParaFrap Training"
Themes
Mechanisms of pathogenesis
Parasite molecular and cellular biology
Post genomic data exploration
International PhD Program
