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Postdoctoral Fellow

The Geneva Foundation • Silver Spring, MD, US • published 2026-10-23 02:05:07.168412

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About the Position The Post\-Doctoral Fellow I provides assistance to the Principal Investigator, Co\-Investigators, and Research Staff. S/he ensures enrollment numbers are successfully met, when applicable, and protocol adherence, monitoring visits, overseeing regulatory and administrative details, data management assistance and project close\-out support is provided. About the Project Every year, over 200 million cases of malaria occur globally with over half a million deaths, mainly of children. Malaria is a major health risk for billions of people living in Sub\-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia as well as for travelers and military personnel serving in these regions. Malaria is associated with severe chills, fever, and sweating, and is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito infected with parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The most severe disease and death is caused by infection with P. falciparum; however, morbidity and mortality are also on the rise for P. vivax infection in Southeast Asia, which is a great health threat to U.S. military personnel deployed to these areas. Due to high rates of resistance of Plasmodium parasites to anti\-malarial drugs, there is an urgent need t...

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