Scientists have developed a novel immunisation method that will induce fast and effective protection in humans against the life-threatening malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum[1]published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine on 30 July 2009 under the title, “Protection against a malaria challenge by sporozoite inoculation”. This discovery could contribute significantly to the development of an effective vaccine for the infectious disease that infects 350m to 500m people world-wide and kills over 1m people each year.. The findings of Associate Professor Laurent Renia from A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) and his counterparts in the Netherlands and France were
