Leadership and Board
Jane M. Carlton, PhD
Jane Carlton, PhD, a biologist and leader in the field of comparative genomics, joined the Bloomberg School of Public Health as director of the JHMRI on August 1. Carlton’s research is focused on using genomics—the interdisciplinary study of an organism’s complete set of genes and DNA, or genome—to further understand the biology and evolution of malaria parasites and their mosquito vectors. Carlton comes from New York University, where she was the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor in the Department of Biology and the School of Public Health; faculty director of Genomic Sequencing at the Center for Genomics & Systems Biology; and the program director of a National Institutes of Health-funded International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research based in India.
Research focus: several species of the Plasmodium parasite that cause malaria, including Plasmodium vivax.
George Dimopoulos, PhD, MBA
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Prior to joining the Institute, Dimopoulos was Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London (2001-03) and an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar (2004-07).
Research focus: mosquitoes that transmit human pathogens
William Moss, MD, MPH
Program Director of the Southern & Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Moss led the International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) of Southern Africa from 2010 - 2017 and has led the ICEMR of Southern and Central Africa since 2017. He oversees the field work at Macha Research Trust in Zambia.
Research focus: malaria transmission in the field
Sean Prigge, PhD
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Director of Biophysics Core Facility
Research focus: biophysical studies of malaria apicoplast and mitochondrial proteins
Photini Sinnis, MD
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Before joining the Institute, Sinnis was an Associate Professor at New York University School of Medicine in the Department of Medical Parasitology and Department of Medicine.
Research focus: sporozoites, the infective stage of the malaria parasite
Scientific Advisory Board
- Carolina Barillas-Mury, MD, PhD
Chief, Mosquito Immunity and Vector Competence Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Daniel Goldberg, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine - Diane Griffin, MD, PhD
University Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, - Thomas Kelly, MD, PhD
Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Sanjai Kumar, PhD, MSc
Chief, Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Louis Miller, MD
Chief, Malaria Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH, FASTMH
Global health leader consultant; expert in malaria, clinical trials, vaccine development, and communicable disease control and research - Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS
Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Allan Spradling, PhD
Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington - Kathryn Zoon, PhD
Scientist Emerita, National Institutes of Health