Research director in parasitology, Inserm
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi received his PhD in plant molecular biology from the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France, in 2000. He was then appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA). In 2004, he was appointed as a permanent scientist at the French Institute of Public Health INSERM, where he is currently Research Director. He leads the Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infection Immunity team at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (Grenoble, France). His group studies how T. gondii is able to hijack specific host cell signalling pathways during invasion and how epigenetic mechanisms control the developmental transition between acute and chronic phases of infection.

How a cancer drug could be repurposed to fight malaria-causing parasites
Oct 13, 2022 11:45 am UTC| Health
Malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which is transmitted by mosquitos. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2020, there were 241 million cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide, 94% of...