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Simon Draper

Investigator, Blood-stage Malaria Group, The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford

My undergraduate degree was in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Trinity College, Oxford University, and included research projects at the Institute for Hormone and Fertility Research in Hamburg, Germany, and at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford with Dr Chris Norbury. I subsequently joined Prof Adrian Hill’s research group in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University.

The subject of my DPhil thesis was the development of new antibody-inducing vectored vaccines against the blood-stage of malaria infection. I have since stayed on at the Jenner Institute, first as a Junior Research Fellow of Merton College, and subsequently as a MRC Career Development Fellow.

The aim of my work is to develop and translate new vaccine candidates for malaria into proof-of-concept human clinical studies. My group has a particular interest in optimising antibody induction by vectored vaccines, as well as better understanding vaccine-induced immunity to the blood- and mosquito-stages of malaria infection.

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