3
Brian W. Simpson, with photos by Mark Lee, “Putting the Bite on Malaria,”
Johns Hopkins Public Health
, Fall 2001,
http://www.jhsph.edu/magazineFall01/Feature1.htm
. The authors were summarizing a more in-depth description that is supplied in the classic work by Andrew Spielman and Michael D’Antonio,
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
(New York: Hyperion, 2001).
4
Ethne Barnes,
Diseases and Human Evolution
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 77. I relied on Barnes for much of the description of how the parasite attacks malaria victims.
5
Carole Long graciously allowed me to sit in on a class she teaches at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, near the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The quotation is from that class.
6
A. Ghosh, M. J. Edwards, and M. Jacobs-Lorena, “The Journey of the Malaria Parasite in the Mosquito: Hopes for the New Century,”
Parasitology Today
16, no. 5 (2000): 196-201.
7
U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment,
Pharmaceutical R&D, Costs, Risk and Rewards
, OTA-H-522 (Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993).
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3
Donald G. McNeil, “Millions of Lives on the Line in Malaria Battle,”
New York Times
, January 25, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/health/policy/25mala.html
; Donald G. McNeil, “Deal Seeks to Offer Drug for Malaria at Low Price,”
New York Times
, July 18, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/health/18malaria.html
.
6
Keasling has said the same thing in other interviews. For example, see Michael Specter, “A Life of Its Own,”
New Yorker
, September 28, 2009.
10
Kimberlee Roth, “A Love of Science and a Vision to Save Millions of Lives Make Her Day,”
Chronicle of Philanthropy
, April 6, 2006.
11
“Victoria G. Hale,”
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
4 (November 2005).
13
Hale later left OneWorld Health and founded Medicines 360, a non-profit pharmaceutical aiming to address unmet needs of women and children.
16
Lecture at UGA Global Diseases Series, University of Georgia at Athens, February 28, 2006.
17
Merrill Goozner, “Stopping Hookworm,”
The Scientist
21, no. 7 (2007): 52.
18
Peter J. Hotez, David H. Molyneux, Alan Fenwick, Jacob Kumaresan, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Lorenzo Savioli, “Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases,”
New England Journal of Medicine
357, no. 10 (2007): 1010-1027,
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/10/1018
.
23
Malaria R&D Alliance, Malaria Research and Development, “An Assessment of Global Investment,” November 2005.
25
Robert W. Snow, Carlos A. Guerra, Juliette J. Mutheu, and Simon I. Hay, “International Funding for Malaria Control in Relation to Populations
at Risk of Stable
Plasmodium falciparum
Transmission,”
PLoS Medicine
5, no. 7 (2008).
26
Marcel Hommel, “Towards a Research Agenda for Global Malaria Elimination,”
Malaria Journal
7, suppl. 1 (2008).
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2
Ian Sample, “Malaria: GM Mosquitoes Offer New Hope for Millions,”
The Guardian
, March 20, 2007; Mauro T. Marrelli, Chaoyang Li, Jason L. Rasgon, and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, “Transgenic Malaria-Resistant Mosquitoes Have a Fitness Advantage When Feeding on
Plasmodium
-Infected Blood,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, March 19, 2007,
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/13/5580.full
.
3
Judith Epstein, “What Will a Partly Protective Malaria Vaccine Mean to Mothers in Africa?”
The Lancet
370, no. 9598 (2007): 1523-1524.
6
Russell had a career in the Army Medical Corps from 1959 through 1990, rising to commandant of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and was founding president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
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7
Simeon Bennett, “Malaria Disaster Looms from Bug’s Resistance, Fakes,” Bloomberg, May 26, 2009,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=NOTA:GR&sid=adA_6th.08Jk
; Paul N. Newton, Rose McGready, Facundo Fernandez, Michael D. Green, Manuela Sunjio, Carinne Bruneton, Souly Phanouvong, et al., “Manslaughter by Fake Artesunate in Asia—Will Africa Be Next?” PLoS Medicine, June 13, 2006,
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030197
.
9
Bennett, “Malaria Disaster.”
10
Judith Epstein, “What Will a Partly Protective Malaria Vaccine Mean to Mothers in Africa?”
The Lancet
370, no. 9598 (2007): 1523-1524.
11
Government funding has come from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health. In Sanaria’s earliest days, funding also came from a band of friends and helpful lawyers, to whom Hoffman gave a small slice of equity in the company.
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1
“America Philanthropy,”
The Economist
, January 25, 2007.
2
“Bill Gates: World Economic Forum 2008,” Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, “A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century,” World Economic Forum 2008, Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2008, text online at Microsoft News Center,
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2008/01-24wefdavos.mspx
.
6
Jonathan Kozol,
On Being a Teacher
(Oxford, U.K.: OneWorld Publications, 1981).