Jane Carlton, Ph.D.

Professor Jane Carlton, also known as “Genome_Jane” on Twitter, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. She received her PhD in Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1995, and worked at several academic and research institutions in the United States, including NCBI/GenBank at the National Institutes of Health, the genome sequencing center, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), and the Center for Genomics & Systems Biology at New York University. Professor Carlton is passionate about genomics and its power to revolutionize the study of parasites. Her research involves using comparative genomics to interrogate the biology and evolution of species of the malaria parasite, Anopheles mosquito, and the sexually transmitted parasite Trichomonas vaginalis and related species. For the past 18 years she has worked with researchers, clinicians, and public health practitioners in India as Director of an International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research funded by the NIH. She has published more than 160 research articles, been profiled by CNN, BBC, and The Economist, received awards from the American Society for Parasitologists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in recognition of “outstanding contributions to the field of malaria research” in March 2024.

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