Smith Lab

At the recent Molecular Parasitology Meeting, Priyanka Bansal, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Smith lab gave a talk about using drug-repurposing of kinase inhibitors as severe malaria therapeutics to reduce inflammatory blood vessel injury in cerebral malaria.

An article from the Smith lab was featured in the IDSA Daily News Briefing from the Infectious Disease Society of America. In this article, Fatou Joof, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Smith Lab and colleagues used bioengineered three-dimensional human brain microvessels to study how fever influences the binding of ring-stage Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells in the microvasculature.

Ying Zheng, PhD from the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), and Joe Smith, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, have collaborated on a new study published in Cell Reports that uses 3D engineered human brain microvessels to probe cerebral malaria inflammation.