McWilson Warren PhD (1929–2021) Scientist Malaria Researcher and ASTMH Editor

摘要

McWilson Warren, a long-standing member of the ASTMH, passed away in January of this year at the age of 91 years. Mac, as he was affectionately known, was born on a small tobacco farm outside Clinton, NC, where he grew up and attended local schools. He earned both his bachelor and master’s degrees at the University of North Carolina. An undergraduate course in parasitology sparked what was to be a most exciting and extraordinary career. Mac earned his master’s under the guidance of John Larsh, becoming intrigued with malaria and the biological complexity of parasites. Larsh steered Mac to Martin Young’s NIH laboratory in Columbia, SC, where he learned to rear and dissect mosquitoes, and prepare blood films on patients undergoing malaria therapy for neurosyphilis. After 2 years in Young’s laboratory, Mac enrolled in the PhD program at Rice University in 1954 under the guidance of Asa Chandler, where he worked on dwarf tapeworm biology. Mac then took a position in the Preventive Medicine Program at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine from 1957 to 1961 where, among other things, he worked on hospital acquired Staphylococcus infections.