April 17, 2018
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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!
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April 11, 2018
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
Assumpta's been awarded a graduate-student educational enrichment award to immerse herself in a Kiswahili course in Nairobi this summer. Safari nzuri!
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By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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...
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February 12, 2018
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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...
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By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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...
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By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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!
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September 1, 2017
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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!
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June 19, 2017
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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!
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June 14, 2017
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
[caption id="attachment_343" align="alignleft" width="167"] Mycologists and parasitologists discuss recent research advances at Duke.[/caption] 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...
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April 5, 2017
By: Steve Taylor, M.D.
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...
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