Professor Elizabeth Winzeler

Elizabeth Ann Winzeler is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine where she is PI of the Winzeler lab. Her lab uses systematic, data intensive methods to solve problems at the interface of host pathogen biology typically involving large collections of chemical screening data and whole genome sequencing. She is also the program director of the Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA), a consortium of 18 different laboratories who have individually developed and maintained many of the platforms that contribute to early stage anti-malaria drug development including target discovery and validation. She is a fellow of the American Academy in Microbiology. She has published more than 200 publications. She has received awards from: the Keck Foundation, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the 2014 Bailey-Ashford Medal, the 2017 Medicines of Malaria Venture Project of the year, the 2018 Alice and C.C. Wang Award, the 2018 William Trager Award, the 2020 Rady Children’s Hospital Awards of Excellence in Basic Research, the 2020 UCSD Health Sciences Women Leadership Award and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

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