It makes me appreciate the community that transformed a little girl growing up in Kenya into an international award-winning scientist. - Faith Osier

If you go to a region with a lot of malaria, you find that only the children get seriously sick and the adults are basically immune. I wanted to understand the process that makes adults immune to malaria.

Malaria still claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year and has a major economic impact on the lives of many in sub-Saharan Africa. Children that survive severe malaria can be left with permanent physical disability that takes many forms.

As you move up it becomes harder because you’ll be distracted by dramas and sideshows, but remember that they’re not the main story.