Professor David A. Fidock Phone: 212-305-0816 Lab Phone: 212-305-6958 Fax: 212-305-4038 Email: df2260@columbia.edu Website: fidock.org

Professor David A. Fidock
Phone: 212-305-0816
Lab Phone: 212-305-6958
Fax: 212-305-4038
Email: df2260@columbia.edu
Website: fidock.org

David A. Fidock, Ph.D.

C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Ph.D., Pasteur Institute Paris

Malaria drug resistance, chemotherapy, pathogenesis, fatty acid metabolism, cell development

Research
Biological investigations into Plasmodium falciparum, the etiologic agent of severe malaria, reveal an organism that is tremendously adept at overcoming therapeutic attack and evading host immunity. This haploid apicomplexan parasite causes disease in over half a billion individuals and kills over a million African children yearly, and prevents sterilizing immunity from being acquired even by individuals who have been infected thousands of times. Disease can result from severe anemia, hyperparasitemia, or other complications resulting from sequestration of parasitized red blood cells (RBC) in the microvasculature, a process that depends on the presentation of antigenically distinct parasite proteins on the infected RBC surface. Chemotherapeutic clearance of asexual blood stage parasites is the linchpin of malaria treatment and control, however it is systematically thwarted by the acquisition of resistance. The most dramatic consequence has been with chloroquine (CQ), for decades the gold standard until resistance appeared and pre-empted a dramatic increase in malaria mortality and morbidity rates, particularly in Africa.

During my past 30 years of malaria research, I have investigated how P. falciparum invades and develops within hepatocytes and RBC, what immune effector mechanisms operate on these stages, how antimalarials act and how parasites counter their action, and how parasites are successfully transmitted to Anopheles mosquitoes, their definitive host. My laboratory's ongoing and planned research channels these interests into several themes:

1) What are the parasite factors that mediate resistance to antimalarial drugs;
2) What biological processes are targeted by antimalarial drugs and what accounts for parasite death;
3) What biochemical and physiological functions are intrinsic to the digestive vacuole (DV) and the apicoplast, the site of action of CQ and of antibiotics respectively; and 
4) How does P. falciparum regulate its virulence and prevent the establishment of protective immunity.

These studies benefit from our extensive experience in P. falciparum transfection and we constantly strive for new innovations in genetics to enhance the power of these investigations.

Please see our lab website as well as my publications on PubMed and Google Scholar for more information about our research and publications.

Professor Fidock is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

 

Selected Publications

  1. Mok, S., Yeo, T., Hong, D., Shears, M.J., Ross, L.S., Ward, K.E., Dhingra, S.K., Kanai, M., Bridgford, J.L., Tripathi, A.K., Mlambo, G., Burkhard, A.Y., Ansbro, M.R., Fairhurst, K.J., Gil-Iturbe, E., Park, H., Rozenberg, F.D., Kim, J., Mancia, F., Fairhurst, R.M., Quick, M., Uhlemann, A.C., Sinnis, P. and Fidock, D.A. (2023) Mapping the genomic landscape of multidrug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum and its impact on parasite fitness. Science Adv. 9: eadi2364. PMC10631731.

  2. Mok, S. and Fidock, D.A. (2023). Determinants of piperaquine-resistant malaria in South America. Lancet Infect. Dis. 16: S1473-3099(23)00564-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37858324.

  3. Mihreteab, S., Platon, L., Berhane, A., Stokes, B.H., Warsame, M., Campagne, P., Criscuolo, A., Ma, L., Petiot, N., Doderer-Lang, C., Legrand, E., Ward, K.E., Zehaie Kassahun, A., Ringwald, P., Fidock, D.A. and Ménard, D. (2023). Increasing prevalence of Artemisinin-resistant HRP2-negative malaria in Eritrea. N. Engl. J. Med. 389: 1191-1202. PMC10539021.

  4. Deni, I., Stokes, B.H., Ward, K.E., Fairhurst, K.J., Pasaje, C.F.A., Yeo, T., Akbar, S., Park, H., Muir, R., Bick, D.S., Zhan, W., Zhang, H., Liu, Y.J., Ng, C.L., Kirkman, L.A., Almaliti, J., Gould, A.E., Duffey, M., O'Donoghue, A.J., Uhlemann, A.C., Niles, J.C., da Fonseca, P.C.A., Gerwick, W.H., Lin, G., Bogyo, M. and Fidock, D.A. (2023). Mitigating the risk of antimalarial resistance via covalent dual-subunit inhibition of the Plasmodium proteasome. Cell Chem. Biol. 30: 470-85.e6. PMC10198959.

  5. Okombo, J., Mok, S., Qahash, T., Yeo, T., Bath, J., Orchard, L.M., Owens, E., Koo, I., Albert, I., Llinas, M. and Fidock, D.A. (2022). Piperaquine-resistant PfCRT mutations differentially impact drug transport, hemoglobin catabolism and parasite physiology in Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages. PLoS Pathog. 18: e1010926. PMC9645663.

  6. Arendse, L.B., Murithi, J.M., Qahash, T., Pasaje, C.F.A., Godoy, L.C., Dey, S., Gibhard, L., Ghidelli-Disse, S., Drewes, G., Bantscheff, M., Lafuente-Monasterio, M.J., Fienberg, S., Wambua, L., Gachuhi, S., Coertzen, D., van der Watt, M., Reader, J., Aswat, A.S., Erlank, E., Venter, N., Mittal, N., Luth, M.R., Ottilie, S., Winzeler, E.A., Koekemoer, L.L., Birkholtz, L.M., Niles, J.C., Llinas, M., Fidock, D.A. and Chibale, K. (2022). The anticancer human mTOR inhibitor sapanisertib potently inhibits multiple Plasmodium kinases and life cycle stages. Sci. Transl. Med. 14: eabo7219. PMID: 36260689.

  7. Wicht, K.J., Small-Saunders J.L., Hagenah, L.M., Mok, S. and Fidock, D.A. (2022) Mutant PfCRT can mediate piperaquine resistance in African Plasmodium falciparum with reduced fitness and increased susceptibility to other antimalarials. J. Infect. Dis. 226: 2021-2029. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac365. PMID: 36082431

  8. Okombo, J., Mok, S., Qahash, T., Yeo, T., Bath, J., Orchard, L.M., Owens, E., Koo, I., Albert, I., Llinás, M. and Fidock D.A. (2022) Piperaquine-resistant PfCRT mutations differentially impact drug transport, hemoglobin catabolism and parasite physiology in Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages. PLoS Pathog. 8: e1010926. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010926. PMID: 36306287

  9. Arendse, L.B., Murithi, J.M., Qahash, T., Pasaje, C.F.A., Godoy, L.C., Dey, S., Gibhard, L., Ghidelli-Disse, S., Drewes, G., Bantscheff, M., Lafuente-Monasterio, M.J., Fienberg, S., Wambua, L., Gachuhi, S., Coertzen, D., van der Watt. M., Reader, J., Aswat, A.S., Erlank, E., Venter, N., Mittal, N., Luth, M.R., Ottilie, S., Winzeler, E.A., Koekemoer, L.L., Birkholtz, L.M., Niles, J.C., Llinás, M., Fidock, D.A. and Chibale, K. (2022) The anticancer human mTOR inhibitor sapanisertib potently inhibits multiple Plasmodium kinases and life cycle stages. Sci. Transl. Med. 14: eabo7219. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abo7219. PMID: 36260689

  10. Stokes, B,H., Ward, K.E. and Fidock, D.A. (2022) Evidence of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Africa. N. Engl. J. Med. 386: 1385-1386. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2117480. PMID: 35388682

  11. Sinnis, P. and Fidock, D.A. (2022) The RTS,S vaccine-a chance to regain the upper hand against malaria? Cell 185: 750-754. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.028. PMID: 35245476

  12. Small-Saunders, J.L., Hagenah, L.M., Wicht, K.J., Dhingra, S.K., Deni, I., Kim, J., Vendome, J., Gil-Iturbe, E., Roepe, P.D., Mehta, M., Mancia, F., Quick, M., Eppstein, M.J. and Fidock, D.A. (2022) Evidence for the early emergence of piperaquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and modeling strategies to mitigate resistance. PLoS Pathog. 18: e1010278. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010278. PMID: 35130315

  13. McCarthy, J.S., Yalkinoglu, Ö., Odedra, A., Webster, R., Oeuvray, C., Tappert, A., Bezuidenhout, D., Giddins, M.J., Dhingra, S.K., Fidock, D.A., Marquart, L., Webb, L., Yin, X., Khandelwal, A. and Bagchus, W.M. (2021) Safety, pharmacokinetics, and antimalarial activity of the novel plasmodium eukaryotic translation elongation factor 2 inhibitor M5717: a first-in-human, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, single ascending dose study and volunteer infection study. Lancet Infect. Dis. 21: 1713-1724. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00252-8. PMID: 34715032

  14. Thathy, V. and Fidock, D.A. (2021) Malaria parasite beats the heat. Nature Microbiol. 6: 1105-1107. doi: 10.1038/s41564-021-00953-5. PMID: 34400834

  15. Murithi, J.M., Deni, I., Pasaje, C.F.A., Okombo, J., Bridgford, J.L., Gnadig, N.F., Edwards, R.L., Yeo, T., Mok, S., Burkhard, A.Y., Coburn-Flynn, O., Istvan, E.S., Sakata-Kato, T., Gomez-Lorenzo, M.G., Cowell, A.N., Wicht, K.J., Le Manach, C., Kalantarov, G.F., Dey, S., Duffey, M., Laleu, B., Lukens, A.K., Ottilie, S., Vanaerschot, M., Trakht, I.N., Gamo, F.J., Wirth, D.F., Goldberg, D.E., Odom John, A.R., Chibale, K., Winzeler, E.A., Niles, J.C. and Fidock, D.A. (2022) The Plasmodium falciparum ABC transporter ABCI3 confers parasite strain-dependent pleiotropic antimalarial drug resistance. Cell Chem. Biol. 29: 824-39. PMC8727639.

  16. Fidock, D.A. and Rosenthal, P.J. (2021) Artemisinin resistance in Africa: How urgent is the threat? Med. 2: 1287-8. PMC8729812.

  17. Murithi, J.M., Pascal, C., Bath, J., Boulenc, X., Gnädig, N.F., Pasaje, C.F.A., Rubiano, K., Yeo, T., Mok, S., Klieber, S., Desert, P., Jiménez-Díaz, M.B., Marfurt, J., Rouillier, M., Cherkaoui-Rbati, M.H., Gobeau, N., Wittlin, S., Uhlemann, A.C., Price, R.N., Wirjanata, G., Noviyanti, R., Tumwebaze, P., Cooper, R.A., Rosenthal, P.J., Sanz, L.M., Gamo, F.J., Joseph, J., Singh, S., Bashyam, S., Augereau, J.M., Giraud, E., Bozec, T., Vermat, T., Tuffal, G., Guillon, J.M., Menegotto, J., Sallé, L., Louit, G., Cabanis, M.J., Nicolas, M.F., Doubovetzky, M., Merino, R., Bessila, N., Angulo-Barturen, I., Baud, D., Bebrevska, L., Escudié, F., Niles, J.C., Blasco, B., Campbell, S., Courtemanche, G., Fraisse, L., Pellet, A., Fidock, D.A. and Leroy, D. (2021) The antimalarial MMV688533 provides potential for single-dose cures with a high barrier to Plasmodium falciparum parasite resistance. Sci. Transl. Med. 13: eabg6013. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abg6013. PMID: 34290058

  18. Stokes, B.H., Dhingra, S.K., Rubiano, K., Mok, S., Straimer, J., Gnädig, N.F., Deni, I., Schindler, K.A., Bath, J.R., Ward, K.E., Striepen, J., Yeo, T., Ross, L. S., Legrand, E., Ariey, F., Cunningham, C.H., Souleymane, I.M., Gansané, A., Nzoumbou-Boko, R., Ndayikunda, C., Kabanywanyi, A.M., Uwimana, A., Smith, S.J., Kolley, O., Ndounga, M., Warsame, M., Leang, R., Nosten, F., Anderson, T.J., Rosenthal, P.J., Ménard, D. and Fidock, D.A. (2021) Plasmodium falciparum K13 mutations in Africa and Asia impact artemisinin resistance and parasite fitness. Elife 10: e66277. doi: 10.7554/eLife.66277. PMID: 34279219

  19. Okombo, J., Kanai, M., Deni, I. and Fidock, D.A. (2021) Genomic and genetic approaches to studying antimalarial drug resistance and Plasmodium biology. Trends Parasitol. 37: 476-492. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.02.007. PMID: 33715941

  20. Vanaerschot, M., Murithi, J.M., Pasaje, C.F.A., Ghidelli-Disse, S., Dwomoh, L., Bird, M., Spottiswoode, N., Mittal, N., Arendse, L.B., Owen, E.S., Wicht, K.J., Siciliano, G., Bosche, M., Yeo, T., Kumar, T.R.S., Mok, S., Carpenter, E.F., Giddins, M.J., Sanz, O., Ottilie, S., Alano, P., Chibale, K., Llinas, M., Uhlemann, A.C., Delves, M., Tobin, A.B., Doerig, C., Winzeler, E.A., Lee, M.C.S., Niles, J.C. and Fidock, D.A. (2020). Inhibition of resistance-refractory P. falciparum kinase PKG delivers prophylactic, blood stage, and transmission-blocking antiplasmodial activity. Cell Chem. Biol. 27: 806-16. PMID: 32359426.

  21. Gnadig, N.F., Stokes, B.H., Edwards, R.L., Kalantarov, G.F., Heimsch, K.C., Kuderjavy, M., Crane, A., Lee, M.C.S., Straimer, J., Becker, K., Trakht, I.N., Odom John, A.R., Mok, S. and Fidock, D.A. (2020). Insights into the intracellular localization, protein associations and artemisinin resistance properties of Plasmodium falciparum K13. PLoS Pathog. 16: e1008482. PMC7192513.

  22. Small-Saunders, J.L., Hagenah, L.M. and Fidock, D.A. (2020) Turning the tide: targeting PfCRT to combat drug-resistant P. falciparum? Nature Rev. Microbiol. 18: 261-262. doi: 10.1038/s41579-020-0353-8. PMID: 32300249

  23. Mok, S., Stokes, B.H., Gnädig, N.F., Ross L.S., Yeo, T., Amaratunga, C., Allman, E, Solyakov, L, Bottrill, AR, Tripathi, J., Fairhurst, R.M., Llinás, M., Bozdech, Z., Tobin, A.B. and Fidock, D.A. (2021) Artemisinin-resistant K13 mutations rewire Plasmodium falciparum’s intra-erythrocytic metabolic program to enhance survival. Nature Commun. 12: 530.

  24. Dorjsuren, D., Eastman, R.T., Wicht, K.J., Jansen, D., Talley, D.C., Sigmon, B.A., Zakharov, A.V., Roncal, N., Girvin, A.T., Antonova-Koch, Y., Will, P.M., Shah, P., Sun, H., Klumpp-Thomas, C., Mok, S., Yeo, T., Meister, S., Marugan, J.J., Ross, L.S., Xu, X., Maloney, D.J., Jadhav, A., Mott, B.T., Sciotti, R.J., Winzeler, E.A., Waters, N.C., Campbell, R.F., Huang, W., Simeonov, A. and Fidock, D.A. (2021) Chemoprotective antimalarials identified through quantitative high-throughput screening of Plasmodium blood and liver stage parasites. Sci. Rep. 11: 2121.

  25. Uwimana, A., Legrand, E., Stokes, BH., Ndikumana, JM., Warsame, M., Umulisa, N., Ngamije, D., Munyaneza, T., Mazarati, JB., Munguti, K., Campagne, P., Criscuolo, A., Ariey, F., Murindahabi, M., Ringwald, P., Fidock, D.A., Mbituyumuremyi, A. and Ménard, D. (2020) Emergence and clonal expansion of in vitro artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H mutant parasites in Rwanda. Nature Med. 26: 1602-1608.

  26. Wicht, K.J., Mok, S. and Fidock, D.A. (2020) Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Annual Rev. Microbiol. 74: 431-454.

  27. LaMonte, G.M., Rocamora, F., Marapana, D.S., Gnädig, N.F., Ottilie, S., Luth, M.R., Worgall, T.S., Goldgof, G.M., Mohunlal, R., Santha Kumar, T.R., Thompson, J.K., Vigil, E., Yang, J., Hutson, D., Johnson, T., Huang, J., Williams, R.M., Zou, B.Y., Cheung, A.L., Kumar, P., Egan, T.J., Lee, M.C.S., Siegel, D., Cowman, A.F., Fidock, D.A. and Winzeler E.A. (2020) Pan-active imidazolopiperazine antimalarials target the Plasmodium falciparum intracellular secretory pathway. Nature Commun. 11: 1780.

  28. Kim, J., Tan, Y.Z., Wicht, K.J., Erramilli, S.K., Dhingra, S.K., Okombo, J., Vendome, J., Hagenah, L.M., Giacometti, S.I., Warren, A.L., Nosol, K., Roepe, P.D., Potter, C.S., Carragher, B., Kossiakoff, A.A., Quick, M., Fidock, D.A.* and Mancia, F.* (2019) Structure and drug resistance of the Plasmodium falciparum transporter PfCRT. Nature 576: 315-320. *Co-corresponding authors.

  29. Dhingra, S.K., Small-Saunders, J.L., Ménard, D. and Fidock, D.A. (2019) Plasmodium falciparum resistance to piperaquine driven by PfCRT. Lancet Infect. Dis. 19: 1168-1169.

  30. Ross, L.S. and Fidock, D.A. (2019) Elucidating mechanisms of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. Cell Host Microbe 26: 35-47.

  31. McLean, K.J., Straimer, J., Hopp, C.S., Vega-Rodriguez, J., Small-Saunders, J.L., Kanatani, S., Tripathi, A., Mlambo, G., Dumoulin, P.C., Harris, C.T., Tong, X., Shears, M.J., Ankarklev, J., Kafsack, B.F.C., Fidock, D.A. and Sinnis, P. (2019) Generation of transmission-competent human malaria parasites with chromosomally-integrated fluorescent reporters. Sci. Rep. 9: 13131.

  32. Ménard, D. and Fidock, D.A. (2019) Accelerated evolution and spread of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum takes down the latest first-line antimalarial drug in southeast Asia. Lancet Infect. Dis. 19: 916-917.

  33. Stokes, B.H., Yoo, E., Murithi, J.M., Luth, M.R., Afanasyev, P., da Fonseca, P.C.A., Winzeler, E.A., Ng, C.L., Bogyo, M. and Fidock, D.A. (2019) Covalent Plasmodium falciparum-selective proteasome inhibitors exhibit a low propensity for generating resistance in vitro and synergize with multiple antimalarial agents. PLoS Pathog. 15: e1007722.

  34. Dhingra, S.K., Gabryszewski, S.J., Small-Saunders, J.L., Yeo, T., Henrich, P.P., Mok, S. and Fidock, D.A. (2019) Global spread of mutant PfCRT and its pleiotropic impact on Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance and fitness. MBio 10: mBio.02731-18.

  35. Bunnik, E.M., Venkat, A., Shao, J., McGovern, K.E., Batugedara, G., Worth, D., Prudhomme, J., Lapp, S.A., Andolina, C., Ross, L.S., Lawres, L., Brady, D., Sinnis, P., Nosten, F., Fidock, D.A., Wilson, E.H., Tewari, R., Galinski, M.R., Ben Mamoun, C., Ay, F. and Le Roch, K.G. (2019) Comparative 3D genome organization in apicomplexan parasites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116: 3183-3192.

  36. Antonova-Koch, Y., Meister, S., Abraham, M., Luth, M.R., Ottilie, S., Lukens, A.K., Sakata-Kato, T., Vanaerschot, M., Owen, E., Jado, J.C., Maher, S.P., Calla, J., Plouffe, D., Zhong, Y., Chen, K., Chaumeau, V., Conway, A.J., McNamara, C.W., Ibanez, M., Gagaring, K., Serrano, F.N., Eribez, K., Taggard, C.M., Cheung, A.L., Lincoln, C., Ambachew, B., Rouillier, M., Siegel, D., Nosten, F., Kyle, D.E., Gamo, F.J., Zhou, Y., Llinas, M., Fidock, D.A., Wirth, D.F., Burrows, J., Campo, B. and Winzeler, E.A. (2018) Open-source discovery of chemical leads for next-generation chemoprotective antimalarials. Science 362: eaat9446.

  37. Sa, J.M., Kaslow, S.R., Krause, M.A., Melendez-Muniz, V.A., Salzman, R.E., Kite, W.A., Zhang, M., Moraes Barros, R.R., Mu, J., Han, P.K., Mershon, J.P., Figan, C.E., Caleon, R.L., Rahman, R.S., Gibson, T.J., Amaratunga, C., Nishiguchi, E.P., Breglio, K.F., Engels, T.M., Velmurugan, S., Ricklefs, S., Straimer, J., Gnadig, N.F., Deng, B., Liu, A., Diouf, A., Miura, K., Tullo, G.S., Eastman, R.T., Chakravarty, S., James, E.R., Udenze, K., Li, S., Sturdevant, D.E., Gwadz, R.W., Porcella, S.F., Long, C.A., Fidock, D.A., Thomas, M.L., Fay, M.P., Sim, B.K.L., Hoffman, S.L., Adams, J.H., Fairhurst, R.M., Su, X.Z. and Wellems, T.E. (2018) Artemisinin resistance phenotypes and K13 inheritance in a Plasmodium falciparum cross and Aotus model. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115: 12513-12518.

  38. Lee, A.H., Dhingra, S.K., Lewis, I.A., Singh, M.K., Siriwardana, A., Dalal, S., Rubiano, K., Klein, M.S., Baska, K.S., Krishna, S., Klemba, M., Roepe, P.D., Llinas, M., Garcia, C.R.S. and Fidock, D.A. (2018) Evidence for regulation of hemoglobin metabolism and intracellular ionic flux by the Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter. Sci. Rep. 8: 13578.

  39. Ross, L.S., Dhingra, S.K., Mok, S., Yeo, T., Wicht, K.J., Kumpornsin, K., Takala-Harrison, S., Witkowski, B., Fairhurst, R.M., Ariey, F., Menard, D. and Fidock, D.A. (2018) Emerging Southeast Asian PfCRT mutations confer Plasmodium falciparum resistance to the first-line antimalarial piperaquine. Nature Commun. 9: 3314.

  40. Llanos-Cuentas, A., Casapia, M., Chuquiyauri, R., Hinojosa, J.C., Kerr, N., Rosario, M., Toovey, S., Arch, R.H., Phillips, M.A., Rozenberg, F.D., Bath, J., Ng, C.L., Cowell, A.N., Winzeler, E.A., Fidock, D.A., Baker, M., Mohrle, J.J., Hooft van Huijsduijnen, R., Gobeau, N., Araeipour, N., Andenmatten, N., Ruckle, T. and Duparc, S. (2018) Antimalarial activity of single-dose DSM265, a novel plasmodium dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor, in patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax malaria infection: a proof-of-concept, open-label, phase 2a study. Lancet Infect. Dis. 18: 874-883.

  41. Bunnik, E.M., Cook, K.B., Varoquaux, N., Batugedara, G., Prudhomme, J., Cort, A., Shi, L., Andolina, C., Ross, L.S., Brady, D., Fidock, D.A., Nosten, F., Tewari, R., Sinnis, P., Ay, F., Vert, J.P., Noble, W.S. and Le Roch, K.G. (2018) Changes in genome organization of parasite-specific gene families during the Plasmodium transmission stages. Nature Commun. 9: 1910.

  42. Fidock, D.A. (2018) A Breathprint for Malaria: New opportunities for noninterventional diagnostics and mosquito traps? J. Infect. Dis. 217: 1512-1514.

  43. Cowell, A.N., Istvan, E.S., Lukens, A.K., Gomez-Lorenzo, M.G., Vanaerschot, M., Sakata-Kato, T., Flannery, E.L., Magistrado, P., Owen, E., Abraham, M., LaMonte, G., Painter, H.J., Williams, R.M., Franco, V., Linares, M., Arriaga, I., Bopp, S., Corey, V.C., Gnadig, N.F., Coburn-Flynn, O., Reimer, C., Gupta, P., Murithi, J.M., Moura, P.A., Fuchs, O., Sasaki, E., Kim, S.W., Teng, C.H., Wang, L.T., Akidil, A., Adjalley, S., Willis, P.A., Siegel, D., Tanaseichuk, O., Zhong, Y., Zhou, Y., Llinas, M., Ottilie, S., Gamo, F.J., Lee, M.C.S., Goldberg, D.E., Fidock, D.A., Wirth, D.F. and Winzeler, E.A. (2018) Mapping the malaria parasite druggable genome by using in vitroevolution and chemogenomics. Science 359: 191-199.

  44. Vanaerschot, M., Lucantoni, L., Li, T., Combrinck, J.M., Ruecker, A., Kumar, T.R.S., Rubiano, K., Ferreira, P.E., Siciliano, G., Gulati, S., Henrich, P.H., Ng, C.L., Murithi, J.M., Corey, V.C., Duffy, S., Lieberman, O.J., Veiga, M.I., Sinden, R.E., Alano, P., Delves, M.J., Sim, K.L., Winzeler, E.A., Egan, T.J., Hoffman, S.L., Avery, V.M. and Fidock, D.A. (2017). Hexahydroquinolines are antimalarial candidates with potent blood stage and transmission-blocking activity. Nature Microbiol. 2: 1403-1414.

  45. Blasco, B., Leroy, D. and Fidock, D.A. (2017). Antimalarial drug resistance: linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology with the clinic. Nature Med. 23: 917-928.

  46. Ng, C.L., Fidock, D.A. and Bogyo, M. (2017). Protein degradation systems as anti-malarial therapeutic targets. Trends Parasitol. 33: 731-743.

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