Over 50 scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Research Institute, the Fred Hutch, local biotechs, and other Seattle area research groups joined forces to celebrate World Malaria Day 2022 at UW's South Lake Union campus on April 25. The day was an opportunity to share important WHO messages about malaria's impact and control measures with the public visiting the SLU campus and to reconnect with fellow researchers. In the two years since COVID-19 started, Seattle area research teams have published over 100 papers on malaria in scientific journals (see linked list). Here's to more great science aimed at curbing this terrible disease!
Monday April 25, 2022 is World Malaria Day. Teams at UW-Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, PATH, the Institute for Systems Biology, the Gates Foundation, MalariaNoMore, local biotechs, and others are working tirelessly to develop better drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, to more fully understand severe disease, to use existing public health tools more effectively, and to ensure good governance and ongoing funding commitments across a range of malaria programs.
We hope you'll join us at an informal gathering of our Seattle area malaria researchers on the UW South Lake Union campus (750 Republican, between the E and F buildings weather-permitting) at 3PM for a “Seattle Team Malaria” group photo. Come out and show Seattle how many area researchers spend every working day focused on this incredibly important and burdensome disease. We'll post the event photos here and on Twitter! Links to World Malaria Day 2022 information: - WHO: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-malaria-day/2022 - Roll Back Malaria Partnership: https://endmalaria.org/worldmalariaday2022 Congratulations to Pathobiology Program graduate student Caroline Duncombe who was selected as a recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation to support her thesis research in the Murphy Laboratory. Caroline's research is focused on the role of biological sex in vaccine-induced immune responses. We are very grateful to the NSF for supporting our trainees, and we look forward to important and impactful findings emerging from Caroline's research efforts.
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