Kirsten E. Lyke, MD
Titles
Professor of Medicine
Physician-Scientist, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
Director, Malaria Vaccine and Challenge Unit
School Affiliation
School of Medicine
Specialties
Malaria Vaccines and Immunology
About
Phone: (410) 706-7376
Email: klyke@som.umaryland.edu
Dr. Lyke is a clinical translational investigator with recognized expertise in malaria, tropical diseases, and parasite immunology. Dr. Lyke is board certified in adult Infectious Diseases and maintains an HIV clinic in addition to attending on the hospital wards as an Infectious Diseases Attending. She has been on faculty at the University of Maryland (UMB) School of Medicine since 2002. She is the current Director of The Malaria Vaccine and Challenge Unit. Much of her early academic career was spent pursuing fieldwork in Mali, West Africa, studying malaria and helminthes immunology, epidemiology and co-infection.
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