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
William Moss
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Research: Infectious diseases; vaccine-preventable diseases; infectious disease epidemiology; child health; pediatrics; measles; HIV; malaria; complex emergencies; Africa; India
Douglas Norris
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Research: Genetic diversity within arthropod and arthropod-borne pathogen populations
Christopher Potter
Associated Professor of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Research: Neural circuits required for insect olfaction
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
Theresa Shapiro
Professor, School of Medicine; Division Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Research: Structure-activity of synthetic antimalarial trioxanes; DNA topoisomerases as antiparasitic drug targets; Molecular and clinical pharmacology of antiparasitic drugs
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
Amy Wesolowski
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Research: Using a range of mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the role of human behavior on infectious disease dynamics
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Rahul Bakshi
Research Associate of Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology | Shapiro Lab
Sophie Berube
Research Associate
Staff
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