Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
The 2021 Shikani/El Hibri Prize was awarded to
Marcelo Jacobs Lorena, PhD for his distinguished career of contributions to malaria research, including discovering first mosquito pheromone.
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Watch the video recordings from the presenters at the 2021 Future of Malaria Research Symposium.
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The Johns Hopkins Malaria Minute podcast shares important advances in malaria research in 60 seconds with the global community interested and committed to the goal of malaria elimination.
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Sean Prigge, PhD, publishes in The EMBO Journal new insights into the complexity of the apicoplast – and its enduring activity even when disrupted - that changes scientists’ perception of the organelle and could inform new drug development strategies.
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The Dimopoulous lab completed a study on the odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) that is timely and important from a translational and public health perspective. Read in mBio.
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Science publishes Professor Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena's research on clock genes and environmental cues that influence Anopheles mosquito swarming and mating.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies produced the video, The War on Malaria, telling how Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Scientists lead the fight.
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Phil Thuma Honored
Phil Thuma, MD, honored with the Donald Mackay Medal, presented for outstanding work in tropical health from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
With a life-long interest in global health and a shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Peter Agre has focused his research on the role of aquaporins in malaria.
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In the News
- Science publishes study identifying First-Ever Anopheles Pheromone with Potential for Mosquito Population Control (Jacobs-Lorena lab)
- William Moss, MD, JHMRI Deputy Director, speaks with the BBC about how a one-size-fits-all COVID vaccine will not work everywhere in Africa.
- Geervani Daggupati receives Young Investigator Award First-Tier Mention at the ASTMH annual meeting (Srinivasan lab)
- Yuemei Dong, Maria L. Simões, and George Dimopoulos engineer mosquitoes that resist malaria parasites
- Diego Giraldo Sanchez in the McMeniman Lab wins Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship to study neuromodulatory networks controlling mosquito attraction to humans
- Toxoplasma is "like a bomb you have in the brain," says professor Isabelle Coppens in the Spring issue of the Johns Hopkins Public Health magazine
- Graduate Student Jordan Hoffman shares her as a Global Health Established Field Placement
- Nature publishes article on our field site Macha Research Trust in Zambia
- The National Health Research Authority of Zambia honors the Macha Research Trust field site with Outstanding Research Institution Award at the 8th Annual Zambia National Health Research Conference
- Young scientists organize, attend malaria conference at Johns Hopkins University in Rockville, Maryland November 2018 Hopkins Happenings (Trainees: Pringle, Nasir, Tauxe)
- Sequencing a malaria mosquito's motherline The JHU Hub (Norris)
- Chris Potter receives 2018 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
- George Dimopoulos receives the Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery & Innovation
- Mosquito Gut Bacteria May Offer Clues to Malaria Control The New York Times (Dimopoulos, Jacobs Lorena)
- The microbes in a mosquito’s gut may help fight malaria Science (Dimopoulos, Jacobs-Lorena)
- What Mosquitoes Smell, and Why We Should Care. WYPR (Potter)
- Hopkins gets $10 million federal grant to continue efforts to control, end malaria Baltimore Sun (Moss)
- Why is the Government Spying on Mosquitoes? New Republic (Norris)
- New Johns Hopkins Research may unlock how mosquitoes expereince human flavor Baltimore Sun (Potter)
- Fighting Malaria by Changing the Flavor of Humans Voice of America (Potter)
- Researchers identify fungus that makes mosquitoes more susceptible to malaria infection News-Medical.net (Dimopoulos)
- USAID awards Zika grant funding to three Johns Hopkins research teams Fox 45 News (Dimopoulos and McMeniman)
- Engineering Mosquitoes’ Genes to Resist Malaria. The New York Times. (Dimopoulos)
- New Concerns About Fighting Malaria. NPR The Diane Rehm Show. (Moss)
- Why a Vaccine that Works Only a Third of the Time is Still a Good Deal. NPR Goats and Soda. (Moss)
- Your Summertime Guide to Mosquitoes: Why They Like to Bite. The Washington Post. (Norris)
- Gains Being Made Against Malaria. Voice of America. (Moss)
- Malaria Eradication: Blocking Transmission to Mosquitoes. The Pharmaceutical Journal. (Dinglasan)
- A Conversation with Peter Agre (video recording). Neill, Ushma. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. (Agre)
- To beat malaria and dengue, vaccinate the mosquitoes.Science. (Dimopoulos)
Malaria afflicts 229 million people globally and kills approximately 409,000.*
The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute’s state-of-the-art facility is the hub for a community of multidisciplinary researchers dedicated to treat, control and eradicate this deadly disease.
Focused on four major areas of research: Entomology, Parasitology, Epidemiology and Immunology, JHMRI boasts experts from around the globe, all working to prevent and cure malaria.
*World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2020
Video: The War on Malaria - Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Scientists Lead the Fight