Member since: June 2018

Research interest
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Title of PhD project
Accelerated selection of drug resistance in P. falciparum due to variant red blood cells

Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Frank P. Mockenhaupt

Bergmann C, van Loon W, Habarugira F, Tacoli C, Jäger JC, Savelsberg D, Nshimiyimana F, Rwamugema E, Mbarushimana D, Ndoli J, Sendegeya A, Bayingana C, Mockenhaupt FP (2021).
Increase in Kelch 13 Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum, Southern Rwanda.
Emerging infectious diseases, 27(1), 294–296. doi:  10.3201/eid2701.203527.

van Loon W, Gai PP, Kulkarni SS, Rasalkar R, Siegert K, Wedam J, Boloor A, Baliga S, Kumar A, Jain A, Mahabala C, Shenoy D, Devi R, Gai P, Mockenhaupt FP. (2020)
MiRNA-146a polymorphism was not associated with Malaria in Southern India.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 May;102(5):1072-1074.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0845.

van Loon W, Gai PP, Hamann L, Bedu-Addo G, Mockenhaupt FP. (2019)
MiRNA-146a polymorphism increases the odds of malaria in pregnancy.
Malar J. 18:7.
doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2643-z.

Gai PP, van Loon W, Siegert K, Wedam J, Kulkarni SS, Rasalkar R, Boloor A, Kumar A, Jain A, Mahabala C, Baliga S, Devi R, Shenoy D, Gai P Mockenhaupt FP
Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines gene polymorphisms and malaria in Mangaluru, India (2019)
Malar J 18:328
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2966-9