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Senior Research Fellow

A researcher's work from 20 years ago has helped to crack one of biology’s biggest mysteries.

Once upon a time it was infectious diseases like polio, measles or tuberculosis that most worried parents. With these threats now largely under control, parents face a new challenge – sky-rocketing rates of non-infectious diseases such as asthma, allergies and autism.

We assessed 30 sibships and 89 parent/case trios of presumed ocular toxoplasmosis (POT) to evaluate associations with polymorphisms in the NOD2 gene.

We identified several novel candidate genes which warrant further analysis in cohorts matched more precisely for clinical phenotypes.

Otitis media (OM) is a common disease in early childhood characterised by inflammation of the middle ear.

This study examines whether polymorphisms in the ERBB2 gene were associated with leprosy in primary and replication cohorts from northeastern Brazil.

Viruses, bacteria, and parasites have developed strategies to invade and establish long-term infections in their hosts.

Our findings are in line with a number of epidemiological studies which show a positive association between breastfeeding and OM in early childhood

Compared the in vitro susceptibility of two strains of Trypanosoma copemani and one strain of T. cruzi against drugs that show trypanocidal activity