A Caenorhabditis elegans CORE facility for anthelmintic research and beyond
Name of applicant
Tina Vicky Alstrup Hansen
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 521,182
Year
2023
Type of grant
Research Infrastructure
Summary
The aim is to establish a CORE facility for the free-living worm Caenorhabditis elegans. C. elegans will be used to express drug targets from parasitic worms, hence serve as a surrogate for parasitic worms in drug testing and circumvent the use of experimental animals. C. elegans will also be used as a screening tool for identifying novel antiparasitic drugs and test environmental pollutants.