TURNING POINT COLLINS OUMA

摘要

Collins Ouma became a molecular biologist to help thwart malaria's high mortality rate in his native Kenya. Last November, he won the Royal Society Pfizer award for his work on identifying genes that may confer protection to children sufferingfrom severe malarial anaemia in western Kenya. Why did you decide to study malaria? I had a revelation between 1994 and 1998 while working on my science degree at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. I got sick twice and insisted on tests, which found I had malaria parasites. My symptoms were akin to what I saw when growing up, and I realized that my relatives probably died of malaria.