We’re recruiting a post-doctoral scientist
Apply through here: https://careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-POSTDOCTORAL-ASSOCIATE-NC-27710/1080119900/ Here are the details: Postdoctoral Fellow Position Computational approaches to malaria parasite antigen diversity Duke Global Health Institute The Taylor lab is recruiting an exceptional post-doctoral scientist to work on the transmission of malaria parasites between hosts. The candidate will join an existing team at Duke, Johns Hopkins, Moi University, Kemri-Wellcome Trust […]
Join us! Attention aspiring post-doctoral scientists
The Malaria Collaboratory (sites.duke.edu/taylorlab) is recruiting an exceptional post-doctoral scientist to work on the molecular and immuno-epidemiology of malaria parasites. The candidate will join an existing team at Duke, Johns Hopkins, Moi University, and our field site in Kenya, and engage with investigators at all sites across various disciplines. The ongoing main project leverages an […]
Cody Nelson gets made as a malariologist
Congratulations to Cody (and team members) for his new paper in Nature Communications analyzing the genetic relationships between parasites infecting household members in Western Kenya: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13578-4 Basically, parasites are more closely related genetically between members of the same household than between households, suggesting that household members are participating in the same transmission chain as those […]
Congratulations to Jens!
Jens Petersen PhD has been awarded an additional year of support as a post-doctoral scientist by the Alfred Benzon Foundation (http://www.benzon-foundation.dk/). This will allow him to continue to investigate the effects of sickle-trait and other red cell disorders on phenotypes of parasitized red cells.
EPiTOMISE enrollment passes 50%
The EPiTOMISE study (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03178643) has passed 50% of its planned enrollees. Congratulations once again to Sarah, Seline, Ernest, and Faith in Homa Bay for their recruitment and excellent care of these children through the trial.
EPiTOMISE enrollment crosses 100
The EPiTOMISE study in Homa Bay, Kenya, has just enrolled its 100th participant. Congratulations on fine work to Sarah Korwa and her team in Homa Bay. The study is randomizing children under 10y to one of three malaria chemoprevention regimens in order to identify better ways to prevent malaria in this high-risk group of kids. […]
Welcome Jens!
Jens Petersen has joined us as a post-doctoral fellow. He earned his PhD from the University of Copenhagen and has just relocated to Durham from Denmark. He’ll be working on P falciparum pathogenesis and other projects that we dream up with him.
EPiTOMISE enrollment hits 25%
The EPiTOMISE study – an RCT of malaria chemoprevention in children with sickle cell anemia in Homa Bay, Kenya – has enrolled 25% of our target enrollment of 246. The first patient was enrolled in January 2018. Congratulations to the crack study team operating at Homa Bay County Hospital for successfully recruiting these children and […]
Congratulations Joe!
Our very own Joe Saelens has been selected as an inaugural TL1 Post-doctoral Scholar by Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (https://www.ctsi.duke.edu/TL1-postdoc-training-program). The program will pay him to perform science for up to two years, and enable him to get “made” in clinical and translational research by applying his bench and data science background to […]
World Malaria Day reflections
Another World Malaria Day has arrived, marking another year’s passage of sustained malaria transmission. This has gotten Assumpta thinking about finding and eradicating these parasites, as she describes in her new DGHI blog post: The Challenges of Treating a Disease without Symptoms. Thanks to Assumpta for thinking on this important topic-
