Research on Chagas Disease - Research Links

IDRI is a Seattle-based not-for-profit organization committed to applying innovative science to the research and development of products to prevent, detect and treat infectious diseases of poverty.

By integrating capabilities, IDRI strives to create an efficient pathway to bring scientific innovation from the lab to the people who need it most.

View IDRI's Chagas-specific efforts here:http://www.idri.org/index.php?name=rd&subName=chagas

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an independent international humanitarian organization that delivers emergency medical aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters or exclusion from health care in more than 60 countries around the world.

MSF has been treating patients with Chagas disease since 1999 and has worked in Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil and Nicaragua. See more here: http://www.msf.org.uk/chagas.focus

SBRI works to advance global health by working to eliminate the world's most devastating infectious diseases through leadership in scientific discovery. SBRI's infectious disease research is the foundation for new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that benefit those who need our help most: the 14 million who will otherwise die each year from infectious diseases.

See more information on SBRI's work on Chagas disease here: http://www.sbri.org/diseases/chagas.asp

The Sanger Institute is a genome research institute primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust that uses large-scale sequencing, informatics and analysis of genetic variation to further the understanding of gene function in health and disease and to generate data and resources of lasting value to biomedical research.

In 2005, the Sanger Institute led a team that decoded the genome of Trypanosoma Cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas Disease along with other parasites that cause major infectious diseases.

The press release can be found here: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Info/Press/2005/050714.shtml

The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) of the University of Georgia (UGA) is a university-wide, interdisciplinary center established in 1998 to foster research, education and service related to tropical and emerging infectious diseases.

Based on a strong foundation of parasitology, immunology, cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics, CTEGD's 18 faculty are from 8 Departments in 4 Colleges. The Center is made up of a wide range of research programs that focus largely on protozoan and metazoan parasites, their hosts and their vectors concerning such diseases as malaria, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis, lymphatic filariasis, African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, and schistosomiasis.

Information on Chagas disease research at CTEGD can be found here: http://www.ctegd.uga.edu/tarleton.php