Professor Kevin Marsh
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Kevin Marsh
Professor of Tropical Medicine
Kevin Marsh is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford and senior advisor at the African Academy of Sciences. He qualified in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1978 and began his research career at the MRC Unit in the Gambia working on the immunology of malaria. In 1989 he established with colleagues a series of research projects on malaria in Kilifi on the Kenyan coast. These have subsequently developed into an international programme working on all aspects of health in east Africa (the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme) involving around 800 staff working across a number of countries in east Africa of which he was director until August 2014.
Kevin Marsh has a particular interest in developing and strengthening research capacity and scientific leadership in Africa and has sponsored or supervised over 40 research fellows and doctoral students which have included four winners of the Royal Society Pfizer prize for research in Africa. He is currently supporting the development of a new platform for the acceleration of science in Africa through the African Academy of Sciences and at Oxford University he is the Director of Africa Oxford Initiative. He is fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Prince Mahidol prize for medicine in 2010 and the Al Sumait prize for development in Africa in 2016.
Key publications
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New antigens for a multicomponent blood-stage malaria vaccine
Osier FH. et al, (2014), Science Translational Medicine, 6, 247ra102 - 247ra102
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Memory B cells are a more reliable archive for historical antimalarial responses than plasma antibodies in no-longer exposed children
Ndungu FM. et al, (2012), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 8247 - 8252
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Relation between falciparum malaria and bacteraemia in Kenyan children: a population-based, case-control study and a longitudinal study
Scott JAG. et al, (2011), The Lancet, 378, 1316 - 1323
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The Selection Landscape of Malaria Parasites
Mackinnon MJ. and Marsh K., (2010), Science, 328, 866 - 871
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Effect of a fall in malaria transmission on morbidity and mortality in Kilifi, Kenya
O'Meara WP. et al, (2008), The Lancet, 372, 1555 - 1562
Recent publications
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Competing risk events in antimalarial drug trials in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network individual participant data meta-analysis
(2019), Malaria Journal, 18
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Observational study: 27 years of severe malaria surveillance in Kilifi, Kenya
Njuguna P. et al, (2019), BMC Medicine, 17
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IgM in human immunity to Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
Boyle MJ. et al, (2019), Science Advances, 5
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Antigenic cartography of immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) (vol 15, e1007870, 2019)
Tuju J. et al, (2019), PLOS PATHOGENS, 15
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Antigenic cartography of immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1).
Tuju J. et al, (2019), PLoS pathogens, 15