Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Professor Sinnis MD is Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and one of the Deputy Directors of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Her research interests focus on malaria and in particular, on sporozoites, the infective stage of the parasite. She currently serves on the editorial board of Science Advances and PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases and is a member of the NIH grant review panel focused on parasitic infections.

She is passionate about mentoring students and junior faculty and served as course director of the Biology of Parasitism course offered at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole from 2015-2019.