The challenges of introducing a malaria vaccine

摘要

Malcolm Molyneux is tracking progress in the fight against malaria and the safety and efficacy of the new malaria vaccine, RTS,S. Molyneux trained at Cambridge University and Bart's Hospital in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, after several appointments as a junior doctor, he went to work in Malawi in 1974 as a government specialist in medicine based at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. In 1984, he became senior lecturer – later professor – at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and returned to Malawi in 1995, where he worked principally in malaria, with a special interest in the treatment of severe disease in children. Molyneux directed the Blantyre base of the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme from 1995 until 2007 and continues to participate in its malaria research programme. He is a member of several data committees for international trials, and has chaired the Independent Data Monitoring Committee for the vaccine RTS,S for the past decade. Since 2015 he has been emeritus professor at the Liverpool School.