Meet The Speakers: Professor Abdoulaye Djimdé

Abdoulaye Djimdé is a CAMES Professor of Parasitology and Mycology and Chief of the Molecular Epidemiology and Drug Resistance Unit at the Malaria Research and Training Centre University of Bamako, Mali. There he leads a dynamic research group whose primary focus is to understand how variations in the genomes of the malaria parasite, the human host, and the mosquito vector relate to disease outcomes like the spread of antimalarial drug resistance. Currently, he serves as coordinator of the West African Network for Clinical Trials of Antimalarial Drugs, with funding from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership to conduct multicentre phase III studies in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea.