Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will present its second malaria conference, ‘Challenges in Malaria Research: Progress towards elimination' at the University of Basel, Switzerland from October 10-12, 2012. The publisher will present the conference in conjunction with its journals Malaria Journal and Parasites and Vectors.
‘Challenges in Malaria Research’ seeks to address the key issues associated with malaria.
Keynote speakers Richard Cibulskis, from the World Health Organization (WHO), Simon Hay, from the University of Oxford, and Laurence Slutsker from the Centre for Disease control (CDC), will kick start the meeting on October 10th with a discussion on the many challenges associated with malaria surveillance.
Other sessions will examine the success of current measures for controlling the malaria parasite. Currently the primary treatment is based on Artemisinin and its derivatives. However a major setback for controlling the disease remains the spread of Artemisinin resistance. The global consequences and challenges caused by the spread of resistance will be outlined by Rob Newman, WHO, and Nicholas White, from the University of Oxford.
Progress of some of the vaccines in development will also be revealed during the conference. Challenges in Malaria Research will close by charting the trials and successes of elimination programmes from around the world.
