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Laura Kirkman

Associate Professor of Medicine · Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

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History

New York Presbyterian- Cornell
Yale New Haven Hospital
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2001
Swarthmore College
1993

Research

Transformation of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites by homologous integration of plasmids that confer resistance to pyrimethamine
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1996 · 328 citations
Complex polymorphisms in an approximately 330 kDa protein are linked to chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum in Southeast Asia and Africa
Cell · 1997 · 294 citations
Malaria parasites utilize both homologous recombination and alternative end joining pathways to maintain genome integrity
Nucleic Acids Research · 2014 · First of 3 authors · 99 citations

Philip Rosenthal
6 papers
Amanda Chan
3 papers
Lars Westblade
3 papers
Luis Marcos
3 papers
Ann Woolley
2 papers
DE
Daniel Eiras
2 papers · 1 as a fellow
Gary Wormser
2 papers
Henry Murray
2 papers
Matthew Simon
2 papers
PK
Peter Krause
2 papers
Abby London
1 paper · 1 as a fellow
Abigail Orenstein
1 paper

Grants

Chromosomal Organization and DNA Repair Mechanisms in Plasmodium Falciparum: Implications for Antigenic Variation and Maintenance of Genome Integrity
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · R01
Contact PI · $870.1K · Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
2026–2031
Role of Translesional Polymerases in Genome Diversification of the Malaria Parasite
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · R01
Contact PI · $3.1M · Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
2019–2025
Novel Inhibitors of Malaria Proteasome
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · R21
PI · $466.1K · Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
2017–2020
Genetic Diversity in Virulence Genes of Plasmodium Falciparum
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · K08
Contact PI · $654.8K · Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
2008–2012