News From the Kaushansky Lab

July 2025

Alumni journal features Kaushansky Lab postdoctoral researcher

Elzani van Zyl, PhD, an Invent at Seattle Children’s postdoctoral scholar in the Kaushansky Lab and an alumna of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was featured as the cover story for the WPI Journal for her translational efforts to create anti-malarial therapeutics.

January 2025

Dr. Kaushansky awarded endowment

Congratulations to Dr. Kaushansky, who has been awarded the Tom Hansen Pediatric Investigator in Pediatric Innovation Endowment. Established to empower bold ideas and innovative approaches to research, this three-year endowment award recognizes Dr. Kaushansky's exceptional scientific achievements in infectious disease research, creativity, and visionary leadership across the broader Seattle Children’s Research Institute community.

January 2024

Selasi Dankwa selected as Next Generation Faculty Symposium speaker

One of 14 invited to speak at the prestigious event, Dankwa shared insights into why the blood-brain barrier fails in cerebral malaria. Read more in Selasi Dankwa Selected as Next Generation Faculty Symposium Speaker.

December 2023

A path toward eliminating relapsing malaria

Dr. Kaushansky and an international team successfully identified malaria protein inhibitors, an approach for relapsing malaria prevention. Read more in A Path Toward Eliminating Relapsing Malaria.

March 2019

What makes a particular hepatocyte attractive to the malaria parasite?

A new study in Cell Reports led by Drs. Alexis Kaushansky and Elizabeth Glennon found that higher levels of RPS6 are associated with susceptibility to infection. Read more from Science in Seattle.

October 2018

Opportunities for host-targeted therapies for malaria

Cell Press announces one of the best reviews published in 2018 is from Alexis Kaushansky and her colleagues which describes host factors and dependencies that contribute to malaria pathogenesis during various parasite life cycle stages and their potentials for host-targeted therapies. Read more in Trends in Parasitology.