Abdoulaye Djimdé is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in Mali. He works on the genetic epidemiology of antimalarial drug resistance and is a Wellcome Sanger Institute International Fellow. He is Chief of the Molecular Epidemiology and Drug Resistance Unit at the University of Bamako Malaria Research and Training Centre.
Abdoulaye Djimde received a PharmD degree from Ecole Nationale de Medecine et de Pharmacie of Bamako, Mali in 1988, a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA in 2001 and is Associate Professor of Parasitology-Mycology since 2012. He is currently Head of the Molecular Epidemiology and Drug Resistance Unit of the Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Science, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali. The primary goal of his research is to understand how the malaria parasite becomes resistant to antimalarial drugs and how that resistance spreads over time and space. With his team and collaborators he conduct field and laboratory based analyses to explore how genetic events in the malaria parasite, the human host and the mosquito vector’s genomes relate to treatment outcome and the spread of drug resistance.
In addition to his own research, he was instrumental in the formation of the Worldwide Antimalarial Drug Resistance Network and served on its Scientific Advisory Board for several years. He was appointed as Chair of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Task Force within WHO-TDR. In 2009, he was appointed as one of two International Fellows at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He currently serves as coordinator of the West African Network for Clinical Trials of Antimalarial Drugs (WANECAM) and Leader of the Plasmodium Diversity Network-Africa (PDNA). He is the Founding President of the African Association for research and control of AntiMicrobial Resistance (AAAMR www.africaamr.org ) and Directeur of Developing Excellence in Leadership and Genetics Training for Malaria Elimination in sub-Saharan Africa (DELGEME, www.delgeme.org).
He has co authored over 135 peer reviewed scientific publications (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Djimde+a.%2C).
List of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Djimde+a.%2C
LinkedIn Profil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdoulaye-djimde-6b983173/
Research Gate Profil: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdoulaye_Djimde
The achievements of the Director: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rthby3JJ4A
