The Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases (CDIPD) is an interdisciplinary research center based at UCSD
CDIPD targets diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but which are largely ignored by traditional drug and vaccine discovery companies because they primarily affect the poor and underserved
Operating as usual
09/27/2020
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8 Texas cities were alerted to a brain-eating amoeba found in water supply — CNN Residents of eight cities have been alerted that a brain-eating amoeba was found in a southeast Texas water supply, leading one of the towns to issue a disaster declaration.
07/06/2020
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Rare brain-eating amoeba infection confirmed in Florida, health officials say — Fox News A person in Florida has been infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials.
04/02/2020
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The Guy Who Helped Invent the N95 Mask Thinks He’s Found a Way to Clean and Reuse Them — VICE “We should get the results in one or two days.”
04/02/2020
How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19 This video made possible with support of Brilliant - the first 200 subscribers to go to http://Brilliant.org/MinutePhysics get 20% off a Premium subscription...
03/30/2020
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FDA issues emergency-use authorization for anti-malaria drugs amid coronavirus outbreak — The Hill The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday issued an emergency-use authorization for a pair of anti-malaria drugs as health officials work to combat the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.
03/30/2020
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
Visualizing the History of Pandemics The history of pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to the ongoing COVID-19 event, ranked by their impact on human life.
03/30/2020
https://www.livescience.com/cat-infected-covid-19-from-owner.html
Cat infected with COVID-19 from owner in Belgium This is the first case of human-to-cat transmission of the novel coronavirus.
12/07/2018
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Priority Review Vouchers Revitalizing Neglected Disease Drug Development — Forbes There's room for cautious optimism with respect to neglected tropical disease drug development, as recently the issuance of priority review vouchers in exchange for neglected disease drug approvals has picked up considerably.
12/07/2018
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Woman Contracted Rare and Fatal Brain-Eating Amoeba After Using Neti Pot with Tap Water: Doctor — People A Seattle woman with a sinus infection tragically died after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba. The 69-year-old woman first developed a persistent sinus infection, which led doctors to prescribe her with a commonly-used neti pot to flush out her sinuses, according to a case report published in Se...
11/26/2018
Miriam A Giardini posted an update to their GoFundMe campaign. Dear friends, We would like to take this special time of the year, Thanksgiving, to express our immense gratitude. There were over 200 new bone marrow donors registered through our campaign, what is amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! We are also very thankful for all the prayers, good though...
11/26/2018
https://www.gofundme.com/donate-bone-marrow-priceless
Click here to support Donate Bone Marrow/Doe Medula Óssea organized by Miriam A Giardini This campaign aims at encouraging people to become bone marrow donors worldwide and at raising funds to help Jair’s treatment. To register as a bone marrow donor in the USA, please visit Jair's link: Join.bethematch.org/Jair . (--> Ou para se cadastrar como doador de medula óssea no Brasil, aces....
11/07/2018
The abstract registration deadline for the SCEP Symposium has been extended to Monday, Nov. 12th
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10/14/2018
https://www.caister.com/protozoan
Protozoan Parasitism: From Omics to Prevention and Control Expert international authors review the current hot-topics in this area to provide an up-to-date overview. The book is dedicated to Trypanosoma cruzi, an organism not only responsible for a serious tropical disease but also a good model system for fundamental and applied biology research and four ot...
10/03/2018
https://www.wired.com/story/naegleria-fowleri-investigation/
A Brain-Eating Amoeba Just Claimed Another Victim Naegleria fowleri lays waste to cells in the brain, leading to a grisly demise in the very rare cases when it manages to lodge itself in a victim's nasal cavity.
08/01/2018
In behalf of Jair Sequeira-Neto. Jair was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia a few weeks ago. Jair’s best chance to cure is to go through a bone marrow transplant.
https://www.gofundme.com/donate-bone-marrow-priceless
Click here to support Donate Bone Marrow: Priceless organized by Miriam Giardini *This is an international campaign. Please, choose your language in this order: - English - Português - Korean (한국어) - Deutsche - Italiano - Français - Español English Hi, my name is Miriam. My best-half since 1999, Jair is a wonderful husband and father of our three precious children. He i...
05/23/2018
How Orphan Drugs Became a Highly Profitable Industry Government incentives, advances in technology, and an army of patient advocates have spun a successful market—but abuses of the system and exorbitant prices could cause a backlash.
01/10/2018
Bill Gates reveals how he decides where to spend his billions - Business Insider https://apple.news/A-yXMHZhTSl-x6ft_ccDz5g
Bill Gates reveals how he decides where to spend his billions — Business Insider Bill Gates has sunk billions of dollars into vaccinations and therapies for the world's deadliest diseases. At a recent conference, he explained how he goes after low-hanging fruit that few people have thought to grab. Bill Gates has invested billions of dollars into solutions for the world's deadli...
01/10/2018
Bill Gates says investing in cancer therapies could 'control all infectious disease' - Business Insider https://apple.news/ASUhZqHBITLav9rVs6Oufnw
Bill Gates says investing in cancer therapies could 'control all infectious disease' — Business Insider Bill Gates said in a recent keynote address that he's confident the world will develop cancer therapies that can "control all infectious diseases." Together with his wife Melinda, the couple has invested billions in companies over the last decade to develop such therapies. Bill Gates is betting big�...
If we can beat Ebola, why not sleeping sickness too? - Mosaic https://apple.news/ATFrlsvCiMT6zDznlRMxxOw
Chagas Disease In Dogs: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatments - Dogtime - Dogtime https://apple.news/Atg57qS53Ozm0PsynINUM6w
https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/22/brain-eating-amoeba/
Scientists hunt for drug to kill deadly brain-eating amoeba The first high-volume screening is being used to hunt for compounds that kill brain-eating amoeba N. fowleri, which is deadly in 98 percent of cases.
Nobel Prize in Medicine: Drugs helping the poor - DW
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Cell phone-based microscope leads to possible strategy for treating river blindness - Science Magazine
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If we can beat Ebola, why not sleeping sickness too? - Mosaic
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Chagas Disease In Dogs: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatments - Dogtime - Dogtime
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New Process May Lead to Vaccine for Schistosomiasis - Science & Technology Research News
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Why aren’t we curing the world’s most curable diseases? - Salon
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Scientists Cured a Deadly Neurological Disease Using a Revolutionary Method - Futurism
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A New Strategy to Undermine Big Pharma’s Price Gouging Actually Worked - Slate
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Scientists hunt brain-eating amoeba with a 97% fatality rate - International Business Times, UK Edition
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Q***r CARE This SoCal-based research study is a su***de prevention project for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults
UCSD Caregiver Study The UCSD Caregiver Study aims to help dementia caregivers cope with the challenges that arise from caring for their loved ones.
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Kiml2020: International Workshop on Knowledge-infused Mining and Learning Co-located with the Knowledge Graph Conference 2021
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UCSD Virtual Reality Study UCSD is using virtual reality to measure substance craving in adult (18+) users of various products
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SDSU Cognition and Language in Aphasia Lab Based in the SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, our faculty and student researchers work to understand more about aphasia and find ways of improving treatment and supporting people living with aphasia and their families.
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