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Tonny Owalia

Portrait of Tonny Owalla

Graduate Student
Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Tonny is a graduate student and part of Ashley Vaughan’s team.  He is interested in understanding the basic biology of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Currently, he is using genetic crosses and phenotypic trait analysis to examine the contribution of the mutations C469F and R561H in the Kelch13 gene to artemisinin resistance in clinical isolates from Rwanda.

 

Institutional Affiliations: 

Center for Global and Infectious Disease Research,

Seattle Children’s Research Institute;

Pathobiology PhD program, Department of Global Health,

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.