About

Owain is originally from a small village in North Wales, and completed medical school at University College London before specialising in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. He also has an MSc in Medical Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where he currently holds an Academic Clinical Fellowship funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

His clinical and academic interest is the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of parasitic diseases. To that end, he has worked on several organisms and diseases, including malaria at the Francis Crick Institute (in the lab of Professor Mike Blackman), schistosomiasis diagnostics at London’s Natural History Museum (in the lab of Dr Bonnie Webster), and leishmaniasis at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London.

Most recently, Owain was based in the malaria lab of Professor Marcus Lee at the University of Dundee (https://leelab.org.uk/). He is excited to have now joined the team at the Fidock lab to continue working on malaria drug resistance and determinants of parasite fitness.

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