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Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research

Donna Huber on June 10, 2025

Assistant Professor Samarchith “Sam” Kurup is the first UGA researcher to receive the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award. Kurup studies the parasites that cause malaria and how they penetrate the body’s defenses, which could lead to more effective therapeutics. (Photo by Lauren Corcino) Every year, malaria evades the immune …

Chet Joyner receives Fred C. Davison Early Career Scholar Award

Donna Huber on April 11, 2025

Chester Joyner, assistant professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s infectious diseases department and member of CTEGD, is integrating molecular biology, immunology and vaccine development to develop new therapies needed to treat and prevent malaria. His work addresses some of the biggest challenges in the field by studying Plasmodium vivax dormancy in the liver, investigating why …

Ph.D. candidate Ale Villegas and advisor Vasant Muralidharan receive Gilliam Graduate Fellowship Award

Donna Huber on July 28, 2021

PhD Candidate Ale Villegas and Advisor Dr. Vasant Muralidharan (Photo Courtesy of Vasant Muralidharan) Malaria’s connection to Georgia goes back to the colonial period. The Southeastern United States provided prime conditions for a thriving mosquito population which ensured the spread of the disease. The state capital moved from Louisville to Milledgeville in 1806 in part because of …

Jessica Kissinger elected ASTMH Fellow

Donna Huber on November 16, 2020

Jessica Kissinger (Photo by Peter Frey) University of Georgia geneticist Jessica Kissinger has been elected a 2020 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Fellow. Kissinger is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Genetics, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She also holds appointments in the Institute of Bioinformatics and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. …

Anat Florentin receives 2018 Postdoctoral Research Award

Donna Huber on April 23, 2018

Anat Florentin, a postdoctoral researcher in Vasant Muralidharan‘s laboratory at the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, studies molecular mechanisms that drive life stages of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of parasite species that infect humans with malaria. During her exceptionally productive years at UGA, she has advanced two related areas of research to learn more about the …

Professor Wins Award for Innovation in the University Classroom

ovprweb on July 1, 2016

Julie Moore strives to inspire students in the laboratory and the classroom. Recently she was recognized for her innovative classroom methods with a Creative Teaching Award from the University of Georgia.

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