Professor Manoj Duraisingh is John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and has been at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan) since 2002. He is also an associate member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Professor Duraisingh’s research program at the Harvard Chan focuses on the biology of host-parasite interactions in malaria. His laboratory develops and applies the latest genetic technologies associated with Plasmodium spp. and red blood cells to elucidate and study the critical interactions between the host cell and the malaria parasite. Professor Duraisingh is also engaged in collaborative studies in malaria-endemic areas, where he focuses on the biology and pathogenesis of P. vivax and P. falciparum parasites in natural populations. He is the lead investigator of the pathogenesis and infection biology project of the India-based National Institutes of Health-funded International Center for Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR) in South Asia and investigator of the Malaria Evolution in South Asia (MESA).

Professor Duraisingh earned a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, master’s degree in Science, and Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom, conducting research on the molecular basis of drug-resistance in the malaria parasite. He completed postdoctoral research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne on the fundamental parasitic processes of host cell invasion and immune evasion by malaria parasites.