People
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
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Research: malaria; sporozoites; Plasmodium; mosquitoes; liver; skin
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
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Research: malaria; malaria, transgenic mice, T-cells, memory, vaccines
Staff
- Ana Coyne, MS, MFA | acoyne4@jh.edu
Communications & Marketing Manager - Josh Weinzapfel
Sr. Grants & Contract Analyst - Trish Ward, BS
Center Administrator - Genevieve Williams, MPH, MBA
Program Manager