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WASP enrolls its first participants
The first participants have been enrolled in Webuye, Kenya, in the WASP study, an observational study of antenatal syphilis. Congratulations to Dr Laktabai and the study team for getting this study off the ground!
Hongera kwa Assumpta
Assumpta’s been awarded a graduate-student educational enrichment award to immerse herself in a Kiswahili course in Nairobi this summer. Safari nzuri!
Congratulations Kelsey!
Kelsey has two recent accomplishments: She’s ticked the final boxes to transition from the MSPH program and become a full-fledged PhD student in Epidemiology (at UNC). Pending receipt of the piece of paper granting her the MSPH, of course. She’s also been awarded a Pre-dissertation travel award from UNC, to allow her to travel to […]
EPiTOMISE enrolls its first participants
Congratulations to the EPiTOMISE Homa Bay-based study team for enrolling the first child participants in the trial. The EPiTOMISE study comparing malaria chemoprevention strategies in children with sickle-cell anemia in Kenya. After 1.5 years of planning, the first participant was enrolled and randomized on January 29, and several more have followed soon after. Congratulations and […]
New Lancet ID series published on malaria in pregnancy
Colleagues in the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium have published in Lancet Infectious Diseases a comprehensive trio of reviews on the state of the science of malaria in pregnancy. The reviews are focused around the Burden, pathology, and costs, prevention, and treatment and reflect the work of the prior 10 years of the Gates Foundation-funded Malaria in […]
Welcome Joe!
Joe Saelens joined the lab about a month ago to start investigating P falciparum pathogenesis in sickle-trait red blood cells. Welcome to the world of malaria parasites Joe!
Welcome Kelsey Sumner!
Kelsey Sumner, current MSPH/PhD student in Epidemiology at UNC and recent graduate of Duke with a degree in global health, has joined us to analyze spatial variation in malaria parasites in Western Kenya. Welcome Kelsey!
Welcome rotan Lauren Smith
Lauren, a UPGG rotation student, has joined Steve Haase’s lab and is cutting her teeth analyzing RNA-seq data from P falciparum time-series experiments. Welcome to parasitology Lauren!
1st Annual EPIC Symposium
The 1st Annual Eukaryotic Pathogenesis Investigators Colloquia Symposium was held May 26 at Duke University Medical Center. The event welcomed triangle-based and external investigators to discuss research into the pathogenesis of human disease caused by fungi and parasites. Fungal Keynote speaker Mairi Noverr PhD of LSU Health Science Center presented interactions between pathogenic fungi and […]
Hoan Ngo is a Biomedical Engineer
Congratulations as well to Hoan Ngo of the Vo-Dinh lab of the Pratt School, an affiliate member of the Collaboratory. Hoan has defended his thesis focused on the development and application of nanodiagnostic platforms and will soon be awarded a PhD in Biomedical Engineering.
