Early Day Motion·EDM 167

MALARIA RESEARCH AT DUNDEE UNIVERSITY

22 June 201542 Signatures

Primary sponsor

Chris Law

Scottish National PartyDundee Central

Motion Text

That this House congratulates Dundee University for its exciting and potentially world-changing discovery of a new compound which could treat malaria while also protecting people from the disease and preventing the spread of the disease; considers that such innovation in malaria drugs is necessary in light of the threat of resistance to current anti-malarial medicines; recognises that malaria continues to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths a year; and commends the Scottish Government's higher education policy, which continues to encourage such world-class innovation in Scottish universities through its supportive and progressive higher education policies.