2 April, 2021
![HUJI Bites: Combatting Malaria with Dr. Anat Florentin HUJI Bites: Combatting Malaria with Dr. Anat Florentin](https://en.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/styles/os_news_full/public/anat.png?m=1669014403&itok=TeEJ8TO0)
Malaria is a major global health issue, killing half a million people each year – mostly very young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
In pursuit of a cure is Dr. Anat Florentin, a science and nature enthusiast, who joined Hebrew University’s Faculty School of Medicine in July 2020. On this episode of HUJI Bites, Florentin discusses her ground-breaking research into the apicoplast – an organelle inside the parasite cell and a promising candidate as a potential drug target against the disease.