Question: How long have you been studying malaria?

Julian Rayner answered on 15 Mar 2011:

Hi katrinaandlucy, or katrina and lucy.

I have been working on it for 13 years now. The field has changed hugely in that time, helped by changes in technology, and the sequencing of all the genes in the parasite genome, which gives us a list of all the things that it takes to be a malaria parasite. We have made really great progress, and raise real hopes that the disease could be eradicated one day, in your or my lifetime. Now we just have to follow through on those hopes…