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Team
JAMES TUJU
Postdoc
KENYA
To make vaccines and understand how they might work, we need to synthesize the parasite’s proteins in the laboratory.
This is my job.
KARAMOKE NIARE
PhD Student
MALI
Many parasite proteins that we consider important for vaccines occur in multiple forms and can keep changing over time. My PhD project focuses on understanding how human antibodies outwit these moving targets and clear infections
ANNE KINYUA
Postdoc
KEN MWAI
PhD Student
KENYA
I am a biostatistician. Searching for the parasite proteins that could make good vaccine candidates is like looking for a needle in a haystack. My PhD explores the use of different mathematical tools to find the needle.
AKUA BOTWE
PhD Student
GHANA
Some malaria infections lead to clinical symptoms whilst others do not. My PhD project seeks to find out whether antibodies against parasite proteins have a role to play in this.
PATIENCE KIYUKA
PhD Student
KENYA
My PhD project seeks to identify the proteins the parasite uses as camouflage, protecting itself from destruction. Such proteins would make great vaccine candidates.
LYDIA NYAMAKO
Research Officer
ROKHAYA SANE
PhD Student
SENEGAL
In my project, I will focus on a group of individuals that have been monitored over several years to understand how their antibody responses against important parasite proteins develop or mature over time.
RODNEY OGWANG
PhD Student
RINTER KIMATHI
Research Officer
KENYA
I support multiple projects and have worked extensively on processing data from KILChip
EMILY CHEPSAT
Research Officer
DOREEN MUTEMI
Research Officer
LILIAN WALALA
Master Student
Alumni
GATHONI KAMUYU
Postdoc
KENYA
During my PhD project I discovered new proteins from the malaria parasite that might be good for malaria vaccines. I am exploring their vaccination potential in more detail during my Postdoc.
LINDA MURUNGI
Postdoc
KENYA
I am working to understand how antibodies actually kill parasites
NELSON KIBINGE
Postdoc
KENYA
I am working to understand long-term protection against malaria and how it can be achieved
DANIEL KIBOI
Postdoc
KENYA
My study compares parasite proteins from malaria infections that resulted in illness with those that did not
TIM CHEGE
Assistant Research Officer
KENYA
I provide support to multiple projects, from protein expression to programming the microarray printer for runs