Dr. Frank H. Collins This is Me

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1. 1. www.indystar.com

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   Published on: 9/21/2007   Last Visited: 9/21/2007

   Frank Collins, director of Notre Dame's Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, will direct the program. The consortium will develop and standardize methods for effectively measuring the rates of malaria parasite transmission by mosquitoes. A second research effort will focus on evaluating some of the more standard approaches to malaria control in different settings where the transmission rates are different. An example, he said, is comparing the use of bed nets containing insecticide and houses where indoor walls are sprayed with insecticide. "One of the biggest components of our project will be to evaluate such methods in a very rigorous and standardized way and make the information available to the larger malaria control community, so other people can use it," he said. The Gates Foundation is considered a leader in international public health, particularly in the fight against HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in the developing world.

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   Published on: 9/8/2004   Last Visited: 9/8/2004

   Other members of the team are Frank Collins, University of Notre Dame biology professor, and Vishvanath Nene, of TIGR - The Institute for Genomic Research - in Rockville, Md.

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   Published on: 1/6/2002   Last Visited: 11/6/2004

   "The same kind of thinking would apply to a number of insect-borne diseases," says Frank Collins, a mosquito biologist at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind. "There is a great deal of concern now about dengue virus. Dengue is a viral disease that is transmitted by Aedis mosquitoes, primarily Aedis Egypti. It's a major cause of disease and mortality." It is unclear what impact such a gene alteration might have on the environment. There is also a slim chance the new mosquitoes could somehow become more dangerous than the old ones. But Dr. Collins thinks the idea is worth exploring. "It's one thing to say we shouldn't be eating genetically engineered corn," Dr. Collins says.