Hilda Wacuka
Supervisors
Dr. Francis Ndung’u
Dr. Francis Ndung’u
Email : FNdungu@kemri-wellcome.org Francis did his earlier education in Nairobi, Kenya, before proceeding to the National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK, where he did his PHD in immunology with Dr Jean Langhorne and Prof Kevin Marsh. He was awarded the PHD in 2005, after which he took up a post-doctoral training position at the same institute, and was successful at implementing a new programme of research in quantifying antigen-specific memory B cells in a mouse model of malaria. He moved back to Kenya in 2008 as post-doctoral researcher, with the aim of obtaining own funding to start and build a research group. His main areas of interest are: (i) immunological memory to malaria in historically infected individuals, and, (ii) hosts factors responsible for increased susceptibility to P falciparum malaria in a small proportion of children that experience excessively more malaria than expected.
Hilda is graduate with a degree in BSc. Biochemistry from Kenyatta University, and an alumnus of Loreto High School, Limuru. She is currently a PgD Fellow with IDeAL
Her current research work focuses on the humoral response to Malaria parasite in children, with particular focus on the blood stage of infection. In the long run, she aims at making her positive contribution to Malaria eradication, among other infectious diseases affecting children.
This fellowship is an ideal start of a career in Science and Research. In that regard, she hopes to use this foothold to advance her studies in the areas of Immunology and Infectious Diseases.
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