Jennifer Güler Wins CAREER Award

November 5, 2021

As we struggle to come to terms with the fact that more than half a million lives have been lost to COVID-19 in the United States, it can be easy to forget that nearly as many people die from malaria worldwide every single year.

“The CAREER Award will help us look, specifically, at how the parasites respond to stress, so if they’re in one of these new environments and it’s stressful for them – maybe there’s a limiting nutrient or a drug present and it’s causing stress – what sort of programs are going on inside that cell that allow it to survive?” Güler said. “Ultimately, what we learn could help us find a better way to treat this disease.” To read more, please click here.

Photo: Jennifer Güler (Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology). Photo by Molly Jordan Angevine