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The Leading Scientists and Researchers 

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

Jane Carlton

Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Genomics 

Melissa Conrad

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

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

Associate 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; measles; HIV; malaria; Africa

Douglas Norris

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Genetic diversity within arthropod and arthropod-borne pathogen populations

Christopher Potter

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; genome editing

Theresa Shapiro

Professor, School of Medicine; Division Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology

Research:  Molecular and clinical pharmacology of antiparasitic drugs

 

Photini Sinnis

Photini Sinnis

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; sporozoites; Plasmodium; mosquitoes; liver; skin

Prakash Srinivasan

Prakash Srinivasan

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; parasitology; host-parasite interactions; vaccine development

David Sullivan

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: Plasmodium, malaria, metal heme crystal, chemotherapy, drug discovery, placental malaria, cerebral malaria, FDA drug library

Amy Wesolowski

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology

Research:  Using a range of mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the role of human behavior on infectious disease dynamics

Fidel Zavala

Fidel Zavala

Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology  

Research: malaria; malaria, transgenic mice, T-cells, memory, vaccines

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Rahul Bakshi

Research Associate of Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Clinical Pharmacology | Shapiro Lab

Francisco Callejas-Hernandez

Francisco Callejas-Hernández

Research Associate | Carlton Lab

Emma Camacho

Assistant Research Professor | Casadevall Lab

Shengzhang Dong

Senior Research Associate | Dimopoulos Lab

Yuemei Dong

Senior Research Associate | Dimopoulos Lab

Rubayet Elahi

Research Associate I Prigge Lab

Yevel Flores-Garcia

Senior Research Associate | Zavala Lab

Mary Gebhardt

Assistant Scientist I Moss Lab

Diego Giraldo Sanchez

Research Associate I McMeniman Lab

Sachie Kanatani

Research Associate I Sinnis Lab

Anne Kessler

Anne Kessler

Program Director | JHMRI and Assistant Scientist | Carlton Lab

 

Shahbaz Khan

Research Associate I Coppens Lab

Godfree Mlambo

Assistant Scientist I Dimopoulos Lab

Deepti Sarkar

Research Associate I Srinivasan Lab

William Still

Research Associate I Carlton Lab

Steven Sullivan

Associate Scientist | Carlton Lab

Abhai Tripathi

Associate Scientist

Faculty Emeritus

Peter Agre

Director Emeritus, JHMRI

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Professor Emeritus | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

 

Clive Shiff

Professor Emeritus | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Board of Advisors

Ashley Birkett

Global Head of Bacterial and Parasitic Diseases 
Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH

Elizabeth Chizema

National Coordinator 
Zambia End Malaria Council at the Zambia Ministry of Health,
Secretariat Officer at African Leaders Malaria Alliance

Mesay Hailu

Director General
Ethiopian Public Health Institute

Margaret McDonnell

Executive Director
United to Beat Malaria

Laura Norris

Senior Program Officer
Malaria Team
Gates Foundation

David Olsen

Retired Scientific Associate VP of Neglected Tropical Diseases Discovery
Merck Research Laboratories

Eleanor Riley

Professor Emeritus of Immunology and Infectious Disease
The University of Edinburgh

Michael Santos

Senior Vice President and Chief Population Health Science Officer
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

Staff