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Instructor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dr. DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff is a board-certified pediatric infectious disease specialist and Instructor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Pediatrics. She has a primary research interest in malaria vaccine development and natural and vaccine-induced immunity to Plasmodium falciparum, the most common and deadly cause of malaria worldwide. She is helping to lead a Phase I trial of a new malaria vaccine candidate based on the full-length circumsporozoite protein, examining the safety, immunogenicity and preliminary efficacy against controlled human malaria infection. Leveraging samples from this trial, Dr. Friedman-Klabanoff will examine the humoral immune responses to this vaccine on a peptide microarray to determine if those protected from infection have different antibody responses to the vaccine than those who are not. She is utilizing the peptide array platform to examine natural immunity to the pre-erythrocytic stages of malaria and protection from infection in a cohort of children in Malawi, supported by the Burroughs-Wellcome/ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Miriam Laufer. The overall goal of these projects is to examine the fine specificity of pre-erythrocytic antibodies to refine future malaria vaccine efforts.
Recently, Dr. Friedman-Klabanoff has expanded her research to also study the use of serological assays to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the community through the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership. She also conducts vaccine trials for malaria, mosquito-borne diseases, and SARS-CoV-2.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM US ET