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Medicine for malaria

Theresa Catania, Tomasz Czechowski

  • 26 September 2014
    5pm - 9pm

  • Yorkshire Museum
    Hospitium     (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible
    (through the garden)

Event details

Anti-malarial drugs save thousands of lives every year, but how did these incredible medicines come about? At CNAP’s Artemisia Research Project you will able to find out about important research on the medicinal plant Artemsia annua (the major source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin) and the disease it battles with.

Come and look at the plant cells that save lives under a microscope, play a computer-based ‘plant-breeder’ game where you can create your own medicinal plants and create your own colourful wooden bookmarks! Even get a chance to win your own mosquito plush toy!