Assistant Director of Transfusion Medicine, Lifespan AMC
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory Director, International Health Institute, Brown University
Jonathan_Kurtis@Brown.edu
T: 401 863-9830
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Brown University
Box G-B 497
Providence RI 02912
Medical education/Graduate education:
M.D. Brown University 1996
Ph.D. Brown University 1996
Post-Doc WRAIR 1997
Residency:
University of Pennsylvania 1997-2000
Fellowship:
Transfusion Medicine 1999-2000
Board certification:
Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine
Research interests:
Vaccine Development for Malaria and Schistosomiasis; Mechanisms of morbidity (nutritional, anemia, cognitive and hepatic) in schistosomiasis and malaria; Pubertal modulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines; Effect of parasitic diseases on maternal and pregnancy outcomes
Current approved research grants:
NIH/NIAID R01-AI48123 “Puberty, immunity and malnutrition in S. japonicum”
NIH/NIAID R03 “Novel Vaccine Candidates for Falciparum Malaria”
NIH/NIAID R01-AI53681 “Immunity, Puberty and Malnutrition in P. falciparum”
Most recent significant publications:
Kurtis, J. D., D. E. Lanar, M. Opollo, and P. E. Duffy. 1999. Interleukin-10 responses to liver-stage antigen 1 predict human resistance to Plasmodium falciparum. Infection & Immunity 67:3424.
Friedman, J., J. Kurtis, R. Mtalib, M. Opollo, and P. Duffy. in press. Malaria is related to decreased nutritional status among male adolescents and adults in the setting of intense perennial transmission. Journal of Infectious Diseases. (Note: J.F. and J.K. are joint first authors)
Leenstra, T., F. ter Kuile, S. K. Kariuki, C. F. Nixon, A. J. Oloo, P. A. Kager, and J. D. Kurtis. in press. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels predict decreased malaria parasite density and increased hemoglobin concentration in pubertal girls from western Kenya. Journal of infectious Diseases.
