August 16, 2011
Dr. Linnie Golightly successfully competed for an R01 grant, entitled "Endothelial Progenitor cells and the Pathogenesis of Cerebral Malaria," and also secured funding through the Gates Challenge Grants with Alberto Bilenca at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel and John March at Cornell in Ithaca to develop a point-of-care test of malaria by a cell phone imaging probe and a novel cholera vaccine based upon in vivo bacterial communication pathways.