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Meet Stuart Ralph
Professor Stuart Ralph
Professor Ralph is interested in parasitic diseases, with a primary focus on the causative agent of severe malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. The burden of disease-causing parasites is particularly high in developing countries. Complete genome sequences are available for many of these parasites, so a wealth of data is available from which to search for potential targets for chemotherapeutic interventions. Prof
Stuart is working on identifying and characterising promising drug targets from Plasmodium falciparum and other parasites, as well as studying the modes of action and mechanisms of resistance for existing drugs.
I’m interested in infection biology and the Parkville Precinct really punches above its weight in infectious diseases. My research explores how the body reacts to infectious disease, how we discover new drugs and vaccines to combat infectious diseases.
"The other thing that attracts many of us to Melbourne is the students. For those of us who have worked at other institutions, we recognise the students at Melbourne are a consistently engaged cohort with some students among them who are really brilliant – it’s a real treat to interact with students of that calibre," Stuart says.