Alan Frederick Cowman AC, FRS, FAA, CorrFRSE, FAAHMS, FASP, FASM was born on 27 December 1954 and is an internationally acclaimed malaria researcher whose work specialises in researching the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, and the molecular mechanisms it uses to evade host responses and antimalarial drugs.
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Alan Cowman then took up a postdoctoral position to study Drosophila at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
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Alan Cowman was awarded an honorary doctorate from QUT university in Brisbane, Australia in 2020.
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Alan Cowman returned to WEHI in 1986, and concentrated his research on genes that make malaria parasites resistant to drugs.
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Alan Cowman holds honorary professorships with the University of Melbourne and Harvard University.
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Alan Cowman's work has been supported by a senior principal research fellowship from the NHMRC since 2018, a Wellcome Trust Australian senior research fellowship in 1988, then by three successive international research scholarships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Alan Cowman held an Australia fellowship from 2007 to 2012.
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Alan Cowman's research focus has been on protozoan infections, in particular the cause of malaria, which kill over 400,000 people each year world-wide.
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Alan Cowman made significant advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms which the malaria parasites use to take over human cells, and how they evade the body's natural defenses.
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Alan Cowman found that once malaria parasites take over human red blood cells, and remodels them so they can reproduce without triggering the patient's immune system.
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Alan Cowman investigated how the parasites build resistance to antimalarial drugs.
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Alan Cowman conducts research into the genetic properties of the parasite, and he was the first researcher to develop a live genetically attenuated vaccine of P falciparum.