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Dyann Wirth, Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Malaria Initiative, will discuss malaria and malaria eradication efforts during a reddit “AMA (Ask…
Climate change altering migration of disease-carrying bugs
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Gene-edited mosquitoes might help fight malaria
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Dyann Wirth honored by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Dyann Wirth was honored by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) with the Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal for “outstanding work in the field of malariology.” Wirth, who is Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases…
Dissecting the power of a historic vaccine
An international team unravels the genetic basis for the protective effects of the RTS,S malaria vaccine — the first candidate vaccine to win approval by European health officials. October 21, 2015 -- Last month, the public health community…
Genes linked with malaria’s virulence shared by apes, humans
For immediate release: October 12, 2015 Boston, MA ─ The malaria parasite molecules associated with severe disease and death—those that allow the parasite to escape recognition by the immune system—have been shown to share key gene segments with…
At HUBweek, experts focus on global health threats
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Scientist who discovered malaria treatment wins Nobel Prize
The discovery of a potent antimalarial treatment by Youyou Tu of China, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, is “one of the greatest examples of the century” of the translation of scientific discovery, according to malaria expert Dyann…