Pragya Sharma

Studies of vacuolar iron transporter homologue from Plasmodium falciparum in a yeast model system

Malaria is a serious and often a fatal disease in humans, caused by a parasite commonly transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. Plasmodium falciparum is by far the deadliest of all malaria parasites. According to the most current World Malaria Report, there were 247 million cases of malaria in 2021, up from 245 m...