Researchers at Q-Pharm and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) will begin clinical trials to test the efficacy of current and potential antimalarial drugs using human volunteers. New ways are urgently needed to test emerging drugs and vaccines that have the potential to treat malaria, a disease responsible for up to a million deaths per year. "Our first step is to develop a method to test if future drugs will be effective against malaria, by comparing two drugs already known to be effective," said lead physician and QIMR researcher Professor James McCarthy...

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