Jen C. C. Hume, DPhil

Biography

Dr Hume set up and managed her first insectary at the University of Oxford during her doctoral studies and over the past 20 years has worked in a number of institutions and insectaries worldwide. A parasitologist by training, her particular area of interest is malaria transmission, a fascinating intersection of malaria parasites, mosquitoes and their reluctant human host. Dr Hume previously managed the Malaria Clinical Trials Center at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute overseeing numerous successful mosquito bite challenge studies. Malaria vaccine and challenge studies offer a unique opportunity to closely examine malaria-mosquito interactions and she has continued that interest here at NIH with the newly opened state of the art insectary facilities at LMIV and through a close working partnership with collaborators in Mali, Liberia, Guinea-Conakry and Cambodia.