Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham (IMAGE)

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham

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Melbourne scientists have taken a significant step toward developing a new vaccine for malaria, revealing for the first time an 'atomic-scale' blueprint of how the parasite invades human cells. Using the Nobel Prize-winning technology cryo-EM (cryo-electron microscopy), Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham and colleagues mapped the previously hidden first contact between Plasmodium vivax malaria parasites and young red blood cells they invade to begin the parasites' spread throughout the body.

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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

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