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Overview

David J. Conway is primarily affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses extensively on medicine, particularly within public health, immunology, genetics, parasitology, and molecular biology.

Their work addresses several main topics:

  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Conway has contributed to a variety of recent publications in notable venues, including:

  • An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples, 2021, Wellcome Open Research
  • Pf7: an open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 20,000 worldwide samples, 2023, Wellcome Open Research
  • Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype, 2021, Nature
  • Chloroquine resistance evolution in Plasmodium falciparum is mediated by the putative amino acid transporter AAT1, 2023, Nature Microbiology
  • A heat-shock response regulated by the PfAP2-HS transcription factor protects human malaria parasites from febrile temperatures, 2021, Nature Microbiology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Conway include:

  • Dominic Kwiatkowski
  • Umberto D'Alessandro
  • Sónia Gonçalves
  • Eleanor Drury
  • Richard D. Pearson

Their work has appeared regularly in several prominent publication venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beings

    Balbir Singh;Lee Kim Sung;Asmad Matusop;Anand Radhakrishnan

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Humans Is Widely Distributed and Potentially Life Threatening

    Janet Cox-Singh;Timothy M. E. Davis;Kim-Sung Lee;Sunita S. G. Shamsul

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Efficacy of RTS, S/AS02 malaria vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum infection in semi-immune adult men in The Gambia: a randomised trial

    Kalifa A. Bojang;Paul J. M. Milligan;Margaret Pinder;Laurence Vigneron

  • Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

    Magnus Manske;Magnus Manske;Olivo Miotto;Olivo Miotto;Susana Campino;Susana Campino;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn

  • Multiple populations of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia

    Olivo Miotto;Jacob Almagro-Garcia;Jacob Almagro-Garcia;Jacob Almagro-Garcia;Magnus Manske;Bronwyn MacInnis

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia: a retrospective analysis

    Serign J Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine;Jamie Erskine;Samuel E Anya;Samuel E Anya

  • Breadth and Magnitude of Antibody Responses to Multiple Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Antigens Are Associated with Protection from Clinical Malaria

    Faith H. A. Osier;Faith H. A. Osier;Gregory Fegan;Gregory Fegan;Spencer D. Polley;Linda Murungi

  • Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

    Muminatou Jallow;Yik Ying Teo;Yik Ying Teo;Kerrin S. Small;Kerrin S. Small;Kirk A. Rockett;Kirk A. Rockett

  • Plasmodium knowlesi: reservoir hosts and tracking the emergence in humans and macaques.

    Kim-Sung Lee;Paul C. S. Divis;Siti Khatijah Zakaria;Asmad Matusop

  • ISOLATION OF VIABLE PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MEROZOITES TO DEFINE ERYTHROCYTE INVASION EVENTS AND ADVANCE VACCINE AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Michelle J Boyle;Danny W Wilson;Jack S Richards;David T Riglar

  • Effect of two different house screening interventions on exposure to malaria vectors and on anaemia in children in The Gambia: a randomised controlled trial.

    Matthew J Kirby;David Ameh;Christian Bottomley;Clare Green

  • Human antibodies fix complement to inhibit Plasmodium falciparum invasion of erythrocytes and are associated with protection against malaria.

    Michelle J. Boyle;Linda Reiling;Gaoqian Feng;Christine Langer

  • A principal target of human immunity to malaria identified by molecular population genetic and immunological analyses.

    David J. Conway;David R. Cavanagh;Kazuyuki Tanabe;Cally Roper

  • High recombination rate in natural populations of Plasmodium falciparum

    David J. Conway;Cally Roper;Ayoade M. J. Oduola;David E. Arnot

  • Genomic epidemiology of artemisinin resistant malaria

    A. Amato;A. Amato;O. Miotto;O. Miotto;O. Miotto;C.J. Woodrow;C.J. Woodrow;J. Almagro-Garcia;J. Almagro-Garcia

  • Strong Diversifying Selection on Domains of the Plasmodium falciparum Apical Membrane Antigen 1 Gene

    Spencer D. Polley;David J. Conway

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia : a retrospective analysis. Commentary

    Peter Byass;Serign J. Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh University of Oxford
Kirk A. Rockett
Kirk A. Rockett University of Oxford
Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Eleanor M. Riley
Eleanor M. Riley University of Edinburgh
Margaret Pinder
Margaret Pinder Durham University
Chris Drakeley
Chris Drakeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Taane G. Clark
Taane G. Clark London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Umberto D'Alessandro
Umberto D'Alessandro University of London
Giorgio Sirugo
Giorgio Sirugo University of Pennsylvania

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