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Faith Osier

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District Hospital. She is concerned about the brain drain out of African universities. She is a mentor with Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders. Osier is a visiting professor at the University of Oxford, where she works in the Infection Immunology and Translational Medicine group. She is
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to continue her malaria research. Until 2022, Osier was the executive director of the IAVI - Human Immunology Laboratory in London. Ultimately, Osier looks to "eliminate malaria for the health and economic empowerment of Africa".
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degree in 1996. She worked in the Coast General Provincial Hospital for two years, before joining Kilifi District Hospital. She completed a Masters in Human Immunity at the
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In June 2022, Osier was appointed co-director of Imperial College London's Institute of Infection, where she is establishing a malaria research group.
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network which enhances research capacity by aiding the sharing of samples and resources from longitudinal Malaria cohorts.
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Osier is interested in improving the prospects of African Scientists, and has her own research group in the
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on the Council of the Federation of African Immunological Societies. She is Vice President of the
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Immune responses to polymorphic antigens and protection against severe malaria in Kenyan children.
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Immune responses to polymorphic antigens and protection against severe malaria in Kenyan children
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Immune responses to polymorphic antigens and protection against severe malaria in Kenyan children
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Osier is interested in how people develop a natural immunity to malaria. She works with the
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merozoites: mechanism in human immunity and a correlate of protection against malaria.
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invasion of erythrocytes and are associated with protection against malaria.
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Merozoite Antigens Are Associated with Protection from Clinical Malaria.
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and was supervised by Kevin Marsh. Osier is the current President of the
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Michelle J. Boyle, Linda Reiling, Gaoqian Feng, Christine Langer,
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Before moving to the UK, Osier worked as a Medical Officer at
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Faith Osier TED Talk - The key to a better malaria vaccine
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SMART (South-south Malaria Antigen Research ParTnership)
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is a Kenyan immunologist, paediatrician and educator.
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Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders, IDeAL
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She was awarded the 295:Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 8: 647:"Prof. Faith Osier | Kemri | Wellcome Trust" 567:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 1005:Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences 197: 146: 125: 121:Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences 81: 49: 36: 20: 1010:Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows 733:"2014 Royal Society Pfizer Prize Seminar" 482: 480: 326:Department for International Development 476: 277:, a position she will hold until 2022. 253:was born in Kenya in 1972. trained the 791:"Researcher Spotlight: Dr Faith Osier" 621:"Faith Osier Interview | Immunopaedia" 560: 1020:Alumni of the University of Liverpool 755: 753: 7: 615: 613: 582: 580: 578: 543:Among'in, Osier, Faith Hope (2008). 513: 511: 509: 369:in 2018. Faith is the leader of the 14: 519:"Prof. Faith Osier - AcademiaNet" 346:Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 797:. 26 August 2014. Archived from 287:Kenya Medical Research Institute 827:. 5 August 2015. 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Kenya
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University of Liverpool
University of Nairobi
Open University
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Sofia Kovalevskaya Award
Royal Society Africa Prize
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences
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https://www.faithosier.net
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Heidelberg University
University of Oxford
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
National Health Service
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Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Kevin Marsh
University of Nairobi
MBChB
University of Liverpool
Open University
International Union of Immunological Societies
Kenya Medical Research Institute
Kilifi
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

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