Bayer CropScience Key Partner in new Research Projects to fight Malaria

13-Sep-2007

Bayer CropScience announced that it has signed an agreement with the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) to collaborate on two projects aimed at finding new effective solutions in the fight against malaria and other vector borne diseases. The IVCC is a consortium of leading institutions in the field of the development of vector control products and information systems formed with a grant of $50.7 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The strategy of the consortium is to identify opportunities for the development of new products, strategies and tools for improved vector control and to enable and support those projects through developing partnerships that will provide the resources to bring them to fruition.

The first Bayer CropScience project, in partnership with the Medical Research Council, South Africa, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is aimed at finding a long-lasting solution for Indoor Residual Spraying for mosquito control. The second Bayer CropScience project includes LSTM and the University of Liverpool as partners to modify current active ingredients to solve the resistance problem which makes the combat against mosquitoes which transfer malaria and other diseases less and less effective.

"This partnership is a clear sign for us that our expertise and our long-term commitment to fight malaria by offering effective products in vector control has been acknowledged", says Prof. Dr. Friedrich Berschauer, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG. "We are very proud to work with the IVCC on finding a sustainable solution in the combat of one of the world's most devastating diseases."

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