Dr Michelle Wykes (ARC Future Fellow)

Dr Michelle Wykes studies the mechanisms by which Plasmodium spp, which cause malaria, are able to evade immunity, with a view to developing novel therapeutics.
Her recent research has focussed on the Programmed cell death pathway (PD-1) and how the ligands PD-L1 and PD-L2 mediate chronic and severe disease as well as initiating immunity.