Jane Carlton PhD

Jane Carlton was graduating with a PhD in Genetics from Edinburgh University in 1995, Professor Carlton took up research positions at the University of Florida, then NCBI at NIH, and then TIGR (The Institute for Genomic Research, founded by J. Craig Venter and Claire Fraser).

Since 2006, her group has been at New York University undertaking research into the biology and evolution of important human parasites. She is Program Director of the Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India, an NIH-funded International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research. In 2010 she was awarded the Stoll-Stunkard Award from the American Society for Parasitologists; in 2012 she was elected a Fellow of AAAS; and in 2018 she was honoured with a Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow endowed chair from NYU.