Dr Jack Richards is an Infectious Diseases Physician (Royal Melbourne Hospital) and Laboratory Head (Burnet Institute). His team seeks to accelerate elimination efforts by developing new diagnostics and surveillance systems by bridging between basic science, clinical medicine, and public health. They bring the following activities to ACREME: development of medical in vitro diagnostic tests (LAMP, G6PD, serological), geospatial surveillance systems, immunology (naturally acquired and vaccine-induced immunity) and clinical medicine.Related Projects
- Developing better tools for diagnosing patients and populations at risk of primaquine induced haemolysis
- Developing new diagnostic tests for malaria
- Geographical information systems and spatial decision support systems.
- Identifying “hot spots” and “hot pops” with serological surveillance and operational research of high sensitivity tests
- Identifying populations at risk of multidrug resistant malaria
- Malaria vaccine development and evaluation
Related Publications
- A comparison of three methods to estimate G6PD activity in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
- Identification and prioritization of merozoite antigens as targets of protective human immunity to falciparum malaria for vaccine and biomarker development
- Molecular properties of human IgG subclasses and their implications for designing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases
- Opsonic phagocytosis of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites: mechanism in human immunity and a correlate of protection against malaria
- Proteome-wide mapping of immune features onto Plasmodium protein three-dimensional structures
- Strain-transcending immune response generated by chimeras of the malaria vaccine candidate merozoite surface protein 2
- Targets of complement-fixing antibodies in protective immunity against malaria in children
- The relationship between anti-merozoite antibodies and incidence of P. falciparum malaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis.