Congrats to our own Dianna Hergott for passing her General Exam in the UW Epidemiology PhD Program today. Dianna brilliantly addressed the committee's questions and even taught the career malaria researchers new insights about these important parasites. Thanks for the hard work Dianna and best of luck on your important ongoing and future thesis research!
Congratulations to UW Lab Medicine Chief Resident Dr. Ben Bradley and the affiliated UW team for publishing the findings of their autopsy study on some of the first U.S. COVID-19 deaths in the Lancet. These findings help to define the pathology of the newly-emerged SARS-CoV-2 virus in humans. Ben will be joining our group's research efforts to carry on SARS-CoV-2 T cell vaccine development initiated by Irene Cruz Talavera. Looking forward to working with Ben and seeing if this vaccine could be one of the much-needed 'shots on goal' to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
After many years, many mosquitoes, many generous human volunteers, and countless hours of work by the Seattle Malaria Clinical Trials Center, the Fred Hutch, the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Research Institute and other partners, our publication on the prophylactic efficacy of the novel antimalarial drug KAF156 is now accepted and online in Clinical Infectious Diseases (click for link). Doses as low at 100 mg protected against controlled human malaria infection, and the drug was safe and well tolerated. We'll see what happens next for this potent antimalarial.
The new Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Murphy Laboratory are excited to report that our own Dr. Melanie Shears has been promoted to a faculty track position as Acting Instructor. This position affords greater scientific independence for Dr. Shears, who helps lead the Laboratory's non-human primate research program. Congratulations Melanie!
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