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CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research Project (2018)

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  • Focus Area: Global Health & Development
  • Portfolio Area: Human Health and Wellbeing
  • Portfolio Area: Science for Global Health
  • Focus Area: Scientific Research
  • Organization Name: CDC Foundation
  • Amount: $1,044,501

  • Award Date: October 2018

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    CDC’s insectary and mosquito lab, where research on malaria control is conducted. (Photo courtesy David Snyder / CDC Foundation)

    Grant Investigators: Chris Somerville and Heather Youngs

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigators. CDC Foundation staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.

    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,044,501 to the CDC Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to support research on malaria control. This funding will be used to support work on the cryopreservation of mosquito larvae and embryos (which, if successful, would make it easier for researchers to maintain different strains of mosquitoes) and on RNA interference (which could lead to important improvements in efforts to control mosquitoes that spread malaria). Conceptually, we consider this part of our previous grant to Target Malaria.

    This is a renewal of our September 2016 grant to the CDC Foundation and falls within our work on scientific research.

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