Integrative approach for accelerating filarial worm drug discovery to treat river blindness

September 30th, 2021 – Jim Janetka, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Makedonka Mitreva, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and Sara Lustigman, Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology Member, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center have received a new multi-PI R01 award from the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute entitled “Integrative approach for accelerating filarial worm drug discovery to treat river blindness”.