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Matthias Marti

Matthias Marti, Prof. Dr.

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Biography: Originally on track as a schoolteacher, I started to work on infectious diseases during my University Diploma at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel in 1995 (supervision: Prof Reto Brun). After training in biochemistry in a parasite lab at University of Texas, El Paso (supervision Prof Sid Das), I did a PhD on the cell biology of the intestinal parasite Giardia lambla at the Institute of Parasitology in Zurich (supervision Profs Adrian Hehl and Peter Koehler). A postdoc in the in the lab of Prof Alan Cowman at WEHI in Melbourne (Australia) introduced me to malaria research, with a research focus on host parasite interactions. In 2007, I started as an Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. Since then, I have developed an interdisciplinary programme focused on malaria transmission at the intersection between basic research, field studies and translation. In 2016 I was hired as a Professor in Parasitology at the University of Glasgow, and in 2022 appointed as chair in Parasitology and head of the Institute of Parasitology (University of Zurich).