Rhoel Dinglasan attended graduate school at Yale University, earning a MPH in Global Health
with a concentration in Infectious Disease and the MPhil in Molecular Vector Biology (Dengue
transmission/Wolbachia biology), before transferring to the Center for Vaccine Development at
the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, to earn a PhD in Microbiology & Immunology,
working in the laboratory of Prof. Abdu Azad on Anopheles mosquito glycobiology. He was a
Dmitri V. d’Arbeloff (Millipore Foundation) and NIAID, NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Scholar Award postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, a
renowned expert on mosquito transgenesis and vector host-pathogen interactions at the Johns
Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI). He joined the Molecular Microbiology &
Immunology/JHMRI faculty of Johns Hopkins University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in
early 2009 with a National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, US National Institutes of
Health (NIH) K22 Career Development Award. Dinglasan’s research interests include mosquito
biology & physiology, pathogenesis, and the application of mass spectrometry-based
approaches toward the molecular and cellular analysis of critical transition steps during malaria
parasite (human-mosquito-human) transmission.
Importantly, his research program also
leverages nanoparticle technology in the development of vaccine and drug delivery systems as
well as diagnostics. He was recruited to the University of Florida in 2015 as part of the UF
Preeminence Faculty Initiative and is currently an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases
(Tenured) at the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Director of the CDC Southeastern
Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases. His academic affiliations are with the
Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine and
the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at the UF College of Medicine. Dinglasan has
served as Chair of the Enabling Technologies Consultancy Group for the Malaria Eradication
Research Agenda (malERA). He currently serves on the Editorial Board of PLoS Neglected
Tropical Diseases and the Advisory Board for the United States Military Malaria Vaccine
Program.
Biography
He currently serves on the Editorial Board of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Advisory Board for the United States Military Malaria Vaccine Program.
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