Professor David Conway
BSc PhD
Professor
of Biology
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
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David runs a research group conducting population genetic, experimental and epidemiological studies of malaria parasites. Based in London, he also works with colleagues in several countries in West Africa, as well as in Malaysia. He was previously based at the MRC Unit in The Gambia for several years where he also studied other aspects of malaria, and prior to that has also worked on other infectious diseases including trachoma and strongyloidiasis. He studied at the University of Nottingham and University of Edinburgh, and worked at Imperial College London before joining LSHTM. He has published over 200 research articles (Google Scholar Citations).
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
David co-ordinates an MSc module on 'Pathogen Genomics' in the Summer Term which is running for the ninth year. He previously developed an MSc module entitled 'Genetics of Pathogens and Vectors' and ran this for nine years, and has also taught on other modules, and on the Distance Learning module on Malaria. He has taught externally at UCL and on two BBSRC residential Summer Schools. He has supervised MSc research projects at LSHTM, and supervised BSc projects of students from Imperial College, UCL, and Guy's Hospital. He has supervised 12 PhDs at LSHTM and co-supervised 5 registered elsewhere.
Research
David leads a research group with a focus on malaria, and is particularly interested in: (i) the effects of natural selection on parasite antigens that are the targets of protective immune responses, (ii) the effects of different epidemiological situations on parasite population genetic structures, (iii) naturally acquired immune responses and their relevance to protection, (iv) erythrocyte invasion phenotypes of merozoites.
He is based in London, and has has spent considerable time overseas including six years as Head of the Malaria Research Programme at the MRC Laboratories in The Gambia, where he led work supported by grants from the MRC and several other funders. He has held 17 research grants at LSHTM (8 from the Wellcome Trust, 4 from the MRC, 3 from the EU including one from the ERC, and 2 from the Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust), 2 of which are current.
Selected Publications
