Cracking the mosquito olfactory code to beat malaria

Malaria is a disease that affects half of the world’s population and causes more than 400,000 deaths per year. Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes that use their sense of smell to find humans. This project will unravel how the mosquitoes detect and process smells, and how we can interfere with their sense of smell in order to reduce the number of mosquitoes who bite us.  The grant will fund the recipient, one postdoc, one PhD student and one technician, as well as the purchase of new equipment.