Dr. Tracey Lamb is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah whose research focus is on malaria. She was educated in Scotland obtaining a BSc in Parasitology with 1st class honors from the University of Glasgow before earning her PhD in parasite immunology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She completed a four-year Career Development Fellowship at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London before setting up her laboratory at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Lamb is an alumni of the "Biology of Parasitism" summer course held annually at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood's Hole, Massachusetts. In addition to running a laboratory in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah, she has undertaken research at the Centre Pasteur Cameroon in Central Africa for the last 9 years as an Adjunct Scientist working alongside Dr. Lawrence Ayong, Head of the Malaria Unit. Dr. Lamb is an immunologist whose research focuses on dissecting how the immune system of children responds to the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria. The aim of her research is to identify new targets for the development of novel therapeutic strategies to treat this deadly disease. Dr. Lamb has received many honors including the NIH Directors New Innovators Award (2013). She has also served in leadership positions for the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She is currently an Academic Editor for PLoS Pathogens and is on the editorial board of the journals Parasite Immunology and Cellular Immunology. Dr. Lamb is passionate about educating the next generation of immunologists and has developed numerous courses for graduate students and is the editor of Immunity to Parasitic Infection, an educational textbook published by Wiley-Blackwell.