Elizabeth Winzeler Lorne Infection and Immunity 2019

Elizabeth Winzeler

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine Elizabeth Ann Winzeler is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. and performed postdoctoral work at Stanford before moving to a joint position at the Scripps Research Institute and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in 1999. At GNF she led a malaria drug discovery program that discovered several novel antimalarial chemotypes that have progressed into clinical trials (KAE609 and KAF156). In 2012 she moved to the University of California, San Diego where she leads a group that uses systematic, data intensive methods to solve problems at the interface of host pathogen biology typically involving large collections of chemical screening data and whole genome sequencing. She has received prestigious awards from the Keck Foundation, the Ellison Medical Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2014 she was awarded the Bailey-Ashford Medal for distinguished achievements in tropical medicine. (Funds from an Australian Research Council Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship Program are providing travel support for Elizabeth Winzeler).