Dr. Francis Ndung’u
Email : FNdungu@kemri-wellcome.org Current Students
Diana Nyabundi
Diana Nyabundi
Jacqueline Mutai
Rowland Osii
Past Students
Peninnah Makusa
Peninnah Makusa
Peninnah holds a BSc. in Biochemistry from the University of Nairobi and is pursuing MSc. in Biotechnology from the same university. She is currently an IDeAL Masters fellow. Her study at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust aims to examine the kinetics of antibody responses to Rh5 and EBA-175 merozoite variants in plasma samples obtained from an acute and convalescent cohort of children. She aims to use her research to inform malaria vaccine development.
She has a keen interest in immunology, molecular biology and epidemiology of infectious diseases.
Hilda Wacuka
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.
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.
- 51
- 66
- 48
- 104
- 44
- 423