Presented by Professor Paul Horrocks.
The last decade has seen, for the first time in a generation, a fall in the mortality and morbidity inflicted by the malaria parasite. Yet despite these successes, malaria still imposes a significant health and socioeconomic burden on those living in endemic regions. The current challenges evolve around maintaining the momentum with the emergence and spread of resistance in both the parasite the mosquito vector to current line treatment and control methods, respectively. Paul’s talk will draw on his research in malaria parasite biology, pathophysiology and drug discovery to illustrate the complexity in the challenges faced in tackling this devastating global disease.
Paul gained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh before moving to the University of Würzburg in Germany to explore gene regulation in the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum. He moved back to the UK to work at Oxford University on the malaria genome project before completing his postdoctoral career at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Paul joined Keele University Medical School in 2005 with a fellowship from the Royal Society. Paul is now a Professor of Molecular Parasitology leading a research team that explores the molecular mechanisms of parasite cell death as well as the development of assays in support of the antimalarial drug discovery pipeline.
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