Professor Abdoulaye Djimdé, Director, Developing Excellence in Leadership and Genetic Training for Malaria Elimination in sub-Saharan Africa (DELGEME)

Djimdé received his Pharm.D in Mali in 1988 and Ph.D. from University of Maryland Baltimore in 2001.  He is Associate Professor of Parasitology-Mycology and head of the Molecular Epidemiology and Drug Resistance Unit of the MRTC, University of Science, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali. Djimde conducts field- and laboratory-based studies on how genetic events in the malaria parasite, the human host and the mosquito vector’s genome relate to treatment outcomes and the spread of drug resistance. He is a founding member of the Worldwide Antimalarial Drug Resistance Network and served on its Scientific Advisory Board. Djimde served as Chair of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Task Force, was appointed as one of two International Fellows at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2012 and is the Coordinator of the West African Network for Clinical Trials of Antimalarial Drugs (WANECAM) and of the Plasmodium Diversity Network-Africa (PDNA).

Abdoulaye is also the president of the African Association for Research and Control of Antimicrobial Resistance.