Malaria

Three researchers at CHOP received Doris Duke Foundation awards.

This month’s Featured Research Trainee is Petra Molnar, PhD, who studies metabolic regulators to develop antimalarial therapies.

Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Audrey Odom John, studies the microbial metabolism of parasites like malaria to improve diagnoses and available treatments.

This week’s news roundup features new findings in youth suicide risk, CAR T-cell therapy, obesity rates during the pandemic, and more.

A group of prominent vaccine researchers, including The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute's chief scientific officer, Philip R. Johnson, MD, and the University of Pennsylvania's Stanley Plotkin, MD, recently called for a "human vaccines project" to accelerate the development of vaccines to prevent "major global killers such as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases."