Profile of Thomas E. Wellems

摘要

Malaria parasites can hijack red blood cells and escape immune defenses, producing a disease that causes tremendous rates of childhood mortality and disability, especially in Africa. Many medicines developed against malaria have lost efficacy, because the parasites evolve and gain resistance. Thomas E. Wellems, chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in the Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (Bethesda, MD), attacks malaria from the laboratory and the field.