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05 Jun 2015 – Post grid calculations continue to yield progress and inspire new methods against deadly diseases
The GO Fight Against Malaria project team has been making good use of the calculations which were conducted by our volunteers and that concluded in summer 2013. Their findings have sparked progress against not only malaria, but tuberculosis as well. They have one paper published and two more about to be submitted. They continue their work to publish their findings, after which they will resume the analysis on and experimental assessment of the massive amount of data generated by World Community Grid volunteers.  
  Tags: Project Update
09 Feb 2015 – Making progress against two of the world’s deadliest diseases
The GO Fight Against Malaria team has just published a paper in which they describe an unexpected benefit of their research: they’ve identified two compounds that could advance the future development of new drugs to treat tuberculosis, including drug-resistant tuberculosis. These results open up a new front in the fight against tuberculosis, which is constantly evolving to resist existing treatments.  
  Tags: Event or Milestone , Research Paper
14 Jul 2014 – GO Fight Against Malaria update: promising early findings for malaria & drug-resistant tuberculosis
Dr. Alexander Perryman describes the analysis and initial findings from the first phase of GO Fight Against Malaria, which include the discovery of several promising hits against key drug targets for treating both malaria and drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis. They are conducting further analysis and experimentation on the massive amount of data generated by World Community Grid volunteers.  
  Tags: Project Update
25 Jun 2013 – End of the GO Fight Against Malaria project
The computations for the GO Fight Against Malaria project are recently complete, so Dr. Alex Perryman posted a thank-you message to members and an extensive review of the project.  
  Tags: Event or Milestone , Project Update
24 Apr 2013 – GO Fight Against Malaria project update
The GO Fight Against Malaria (GFAM) project researchers are challenging other scientists to openly collaborate, rather than compete, in finding ways to combat malaria. To this end, the GFAM project has made their results publicly available to other researchers and encourages others to suggest additional computational searches within the GFAM project.  
  Tags: Project Update
16 Nov 2012 – GO Fight Against Malaria project update
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums  
  Tags: Project Update
16 Nov 2011 – Launch of the GO Fight Against Malaria Project
World Community Grid is pleased to announce the launch of the GO Fight Against Malaria project.  
  Tags: Event or Milestone , Media , Video

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