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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, United States
Elizabeth S. Egan, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Her laboratory studies host-pathogen interactions in Plasmodium falciparum malaria, with a focus on understanding host erythrocyte determinants of infection. In addition to her research, Dr. Egan is an attending physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Dr. Egan received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, and her M.D. and Ph.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. She completed her clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital. As a postdoctoral fellow in Manoj Duraisingh’s laboratory at Harvard School of Public Health, she pioneered the first genetic screen to identify erythrocyte host factors for P. falciparum using red blood cells derived from hematopoietic stem cells. Dr. Egan has received various awards for her research including a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Microbiology, New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, and Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Ongoing research in her laboratory at Stanford is focused on understanding the molecular and genetic determinants of human erythrocyte susceptibility to P. falciparum infection. They use a variety of approaches spanning molecular parasitology, human stem cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and population genetics.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, October 21, 2022
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET
Friday, October 21, 2022
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US ET