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Email

james.mccarthy@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Department of Infectious Diseases
ORCID

0000-0001-6596-9718

Prof James McCarthy

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Department of Infectious Diseases

489 Scholarly works
15 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Exploring community and expert perceptions of the acceptability of an oropharyngeal gonorrhoea controlled human infection model in Australia
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-30975-6
  • 2026

    Journal article

    GID/CTLH E3 ligase complex control cell fate programs for sexual development of Plasmodium falciparum
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69183-9
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Effect of ibuprofen on the pharmacokinetics of intravenous flucloxacillin in healthy adults
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2025.107684
  • 2026

    Journal article

    MK-7602: a potent multi-stage dual-targeting antimalarial
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.106061
  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Transforming Perinatal Research to Improve Outcomes in Preterm Birth
  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    CURE-NG: A Human Challenge Model to Develop New Treatments for Gonorrhoea
  • 2020

    Research Grant

    Tropical Diseases: Translating Discoveries Into Better Health
James McCarthy

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    More than a fever: Encephalitis due to typhoid fever.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2025.108092
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Adjunctive ruxolitinib attenuates inflammation and enhances immunity in volunteers experimentally infected with Plasmodium falciparum
    DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aea2531
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Selecting candidate Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains for oropharyngeal gonorrhoea human challenge: a genomics-based analysis of clinical isolates
    DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101105
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Population pharmacokinetics of penicillin G: insights into increased clearance at low concentrations to guide development of improved long-acting formulations for syphilis and prevention of rheumatic fever
    DOI: 10.1128/aac.00269-25
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Osteoprotegerin and its ligands RANKL and TRAIL in falciparum, vivax, and knowlesi malaria
    DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112768
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Establishing the lowest penicillin concentration to prevent pharyngitis due to Streptococcus pyogenes using a human challenge model (CHIPS): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
    DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2024.101038

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2026

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    A Gene Drive to Control Malaria
  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    The Role of Cytochrome Polymorphisms in Primaquine Metabolism and Effects on Its Activity in Radical Cure of Plasmodium Vivax Infection

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