Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski
Dominic leads the Sanger Institute Malaria Programme, which uses genomic and genetic approaches to discover molecular mechanisms of host-parasite interactions.
Dominic is a clinical researcher working on malaria and other childhood diseases of the developing world.
He joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2006 to lead the Malaria Programme, as a part of the Institute's programme in Pathogen Genetics. He also maintains a joint appointment - and a busy laboratory - at the University of Oxford, where he is a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Professor in the Department of Paediatrics.
Although separated by geography, Dominic's team works together to bridge the complementary strengths of the Sanger Institute, where they are the Malaria Programme: Kwiatkoski Group, and the University of Oxford, by combining high-throughput genomic approaches with large-scale clinical epidemiology studies to investigate biological mechanisms of disease.
One of the team's major tasks across both sites is to coordinate MalariaGEN, a network of malaria researchers in 20 countries, which aims to accelerate vaccine development by discovering natural mechanisms of protective immunity to malaria.
Selected Publications
BCG-malaria co-Infection has paradoxical effects on C57BL/6 and A/J mouse strains.
Parasite immunology2008;30;1;1-12
PUBMED: 18086011; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2007.00983.x
