Kirk Group - Membrane transport in parasites
Kiaran is not currently taking on students. All projects in which he is involved are undertaken in collaboration with the labs of Dr Adele Lehane and/or Dr Giel van Dooren and students are encouraged to contact them in relation to potential research projects.
Project | Status |
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Ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite | Current |
Novel nutrient/metabolite transporters in apicomplexan parasites | Current |
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Professor Kiaran Kirk elected Fellow of the Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Story | Monday 23 October 2017
The Research School of Biology (RSB) welcomes the election of Professor Kiaran Kirk as a Fellow to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Characterising a new drug target in the malaria parasite
Story | Tuesday 8 August 2017
Although significant advances in malaria control have been made in the past few decades, resistance to our current antimalarial drug repertoire threatens control efforts.
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Kiaran Kirk, BSB, and College of Science Dean
Story | Tuesday 9 May 2017
I have been extremely fortunate in having had very many highly talented people through the lab, and the successes that the lab has had
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Beating malaria: All guns to bear
Story | Wednesday 3 June 2015
Groups of scientists across ANU are teaming up to fight one of the world's most deadly diseases.
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'Concepts in Parasitology' at ANU Canberra and Kioloa Coastal Campus
Story | Thursday 18 December 2014
The future of parasite research in Australia will be in safe hands as 16 young Australian scientists converged for an intensive 2-week workshop with world-leading biologists to study worms, protozoans, ticks, fleas, lice and more.
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New molecules to burst malaria's bubble
Story | Tuesday 2 December 2014
Scientists have released details of a raft of new chemicals with potent anti-malarial properties which could open the way to new drugs to fight the disease.
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Kirk Dean of Science College
Story | Wednesday 30 April 2014
Professor Kiaran Kirk has been appointed as the Dean of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.
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New drug puts malaria under the pump
Story | Thursday 14 February 2013
Researchers have discovered how a new class of antimalarial drugs kills the malaria parasite, showing that the drugs block a pump at the parasite surface, causing it to fill with salt.