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Sanjeev Krishna

Sanjeev Krishna is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St George's, University of London, known for work on artemisinin antimalarials and malaria diagnostics.

Shyam Sundar (Indian physician)

Shyam Sundar (born 1953) is an Indian infectious diseases physician and professor at Banaras Hindu University whose clinical trials changed the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, in South Asia.

Simon J. Draper

Simon J. Draper is a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford whose group developed the RH5.1 blood-stage malaria vaccine, 55% effective in a Burkina Faso trial.

Steve W. Lindsay

Steve W. Lindsay (Steven W. Lindsay) is a British public health entomologist and Emeritus Professor at Durham University whose trials of bednets, house screening, and larval control shaped WHO malaria policy.

Terrie E. Taylor

Terrie E. Taylor is an American osteopathic physician and malaria researcher at Michigan State University who has treated children with cerebral malaria in Blantyre, Malawi, since 1986.

Thomas B. Nutman

Thomas B. Nutman is a physician-scientist at the NIH Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases who studies immune responses to parasitic worms and directs field research in India and Mali.

Thomas F. McCutchan

Thomas F. McCutchan is an American malaria researcher at the National Institutes of Health whose laboratory established the molecular genetics of Plasmodium parasites, the agents of malaria.

Thomas N. Williams

Thomas N. Williams, known as Tom Williams, is a British pediatrician and haemoglobinopathy researcher at Imperial College London who studies sickle cell disease and malaria resistance in Kilifi, Kenya.

Victor Nussenzweig

Victor Nussenzweig (1928–2025) was a Brazilian-born immunologist and pathologist at New York University who co-discovered the malaria circumsporozoite protein, the antigen of the vaccines RTS,S and R21.

Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner

Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner (1867–1949) was a German-born Dutch malariologist and professor of tropical hygiene at the University of Amsterdam, known for Schüffner's dots, the red stippling in red cells infected with Plasmodium vivax.

Xin‐zhuan Su

Xin-zhuan Su is an American malaria researcher who leads the Malaria Functional Genomics Section at NIAID, NIH, known for identifying the var gene family of Plasmodium falciparum.