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Dominic Kwiatkowski
FRCP
Kwiatkowski in 2018
Born
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski

(1953-05-25)25 May 1953
Hammersmith, London, England
Died27 April 2023(2023-04-27) (aged 69)
Scientific career
FieldsGenomics
Malaria[1][2]
InstitutionsWellcome Sanger Institute
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Guy's Hospital
Leyland Motors[3]
Websitesanger.ac.uk/people/directory/kwiatkowski-dominic

Dominic Kwiatkowski

FRCP[4][5] (25 May 1953 – 27 April 2023) was an English medical researcher and geneticist who was head of the parasites and microbes programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute[3] in Cambridge and a Professor of Genomics at the University of Oxford.[4] Kwiatkowski applied genomics and computational analysis to problems in infectious disease, with the aim of finding ways to reduce the burden of disease in the developing world.[4][6][7][8]

Education

Kwiatkowski trained as a paediatrician at Guy's Hospital[when?] in London.[4]

Career and research

Kwiatkowski spent several years in West Africa, where malaria causes high levels of infant mortality, and this was a major focus of his research over the past thirty years.[4] He made significant contributions to the understanding of malaria pathogenesis and genetic mechanisms of resistance to the disease.[4] He also pioneered genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Africa and led large international collaborations to characterise the genomic diversity of parasite and mosquito populations around the world.[4] This work is yielding deep insights into the evolutionary biology of drug resistance and pesticide resistance with practical implications for disease control.[4]

In 2005 Kwiatkowski founded a data-sharing network, MalariaGEN, which has fostered productive research collaborations in more than forty malaria endemic countries, and has become a model for equitable sharing of genetic data and research capacity building in resource-poor settings.[4][1]

Death

Kwiatkowski died on 27 April 2023, at the age of 69.[9]

Awards and honours

Kwiatkowski was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018[4] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000.[10]

References

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  3. ^ a b "Kwiatkowski, Dominic". Sanger.ac.uk.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Anon (2018). "Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski FMedSci FRS". Royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  5. ^ "Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski - The Academy of Medical Sciences". Acmedsci.ac.uk.
  6. ^ "Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski - Nuffield Department of Medicine". Ndm.ox.ac.uk.
  7. ^ Dominic Kwiatkowski publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. PMID 21853089
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  9. ^ Ferry, Georgina (16 May 2023). "Dominic Kwiatkowski obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski - The Academy of Medical Sciences". Acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2019.

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