Jane M. Carlton

Jane M. Carlton is a biologist at Johns Hopkins University whose research centers on two groups of single-celled parasites: those which cause malaria (the genus ''Plasmodium''), and trichomonads, which include the common sexually transmitted parasite ''Trichomonas vaginalis''. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Malaria Genomics and Public Health. She holds primary appointments in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a department shared by the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. Provided by Wikipedia