Alan Cowman

Alan Cowman's laboratory studies malaria, a disease that is responsible for more than 400,000 deaths each year. They aim to advance the understanding of how malaria-causing parasites invade human cells. Recently, new parasite strains emerged that are resistant to available drugs. The goal is to develop new methods of killing the parasites or preventing them from infecting new cells. They hope that this will help develop new antimalarial treatments that will help to overcome the emerging drug-resistance problem.