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The investigators below are among the world’s foremost experts and innovators in their specialties and are supported by a dedicated leadership team and advisory board. 

Our postdoctoral scholars and graduate students represent the next generation of leadership in malaria research and public health. 

Faculty

Deborah Andrew 

Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology  

Research: Salivary gland biology  

Jane Carlton

Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Genomics 

Isabelle Coppens 

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Malaria parasite autophagy in liver  

George Dimopoulos

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Modifying mosquitoes

Matthew Ippolito 

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology  

Research: Malaria pharmacology in rural Africa

Conor McMeniman

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Mosquito olfactory function 

Doug Norris

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Genetic diversity within arthropod and arthropod-borne pathogen populations

Sean Prigge

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; apicoplast; enzymology; mitochondrion; vitamins; metabolism; transcriptomics; metabolomics; enzyme cofactors; genome editing

Photini Sinnis

Photini Sinnis

 

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; sporozoites; Plasmodium; mosquitoes; liver; skin

Prakash Srinivasan

Prakash Srinivasan

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; parasitology; host-parasite interactions; vaccine development

David Sullivan

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Plasmodium, malaria, metal heme crystal, chemotherapy, drug discovery, placental malaria, cerebral malaria, FDA drug library

Fidel Zavala

Fidel Zavala

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; malaria, transgenic mice, T-cells, memory, vaccines

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