Chetan Chitnis

Chetan Chitnis joined Institut Pasteur in 2014 to set up the Malaria Parasite Biology & Vaccines Unit. His laboratory investigates how malaria parasites invade human erythrocytes and uses these findings to develop new intervention strategies such as malaria vaccines. Dr. Chitnis completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990 and conducted postdoctoral research on malaria at the US National Institutes of Health. He returned to India in 1995 where he established a laboratory that combined fundamental and translational malaria research. Dr. Chitnis is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and has been a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and a Howard Hughes International Research Scholar. He is a recipient of the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences and the Bhatnagar Award in Medical Science, two of India’s most prestigious life sciences awards.