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UrduJoseph Amon, PhD, MSPH, has joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He assumed the role on October 15.
Tag: neglected diseases
Something old, something new combine for effective vaccine against parasitic skin disease
Scientists are planning for Phase 1 human trials of a vaccine they developed by using CRISPR gene-editing technology to mutate the parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a skin disease common in tropical regions of the world and gaining ground in the United States.
The big gulp: the inside-out protection of parasitic worms against host defenses
A team of developmental biologists at the Morgridge Institute for Research has discovered a means by which schistosomes, parasitic worms that infect more than 200 million people in tropical climates, are able to outfox the host’s immune system.