How Malaria Kills
Research on Malaria
Sunny spent more than a decade conducting research on malaria, taking an evolutionary approach to the disease in an effort to identify novel drug or vaccine targets. He discovered a new molecular “switch” that explains how malaria parasites escape human immune systems.
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