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Professor Cowman received his Ph.D. in parasitology from the University of Melbourne. For his work on Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Cowman is the recipient of many awards, including the 1990 Burnet Prize, the 1992 Glaxo Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases, the 1993 Gottschalk Medal for Medical Science and Biology of the Australian Academy of Sciences, the 1994 Boehringer-Mannheim Medal, the 2001 Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal, the Centenary Medal from the Governor-General of Australia, and appointment as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Professor Cowman is currently a researcher in the Division of Infection and Immunity at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. He was first named an HHMI International Research Scholar in 1992. This is his third HHMI award.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Alan Cowman wants to know how Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the most lethal form of human malaria, invades mature red blood cells. This information will be important in determining the potential of the proteins involved in the process as vaccine and drug candidates.
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