Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Barillas-Mury" class="extiw" title="w:Carolina Barillas-Mury">Carolina Barillas-Mury</a> was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.  Millions of people are affected by the life-threatening disease of malaria, carried by mosquitos, which Barillas-Mury investigates.  She studies the interactions between the mosquito immune system and Plasmodium parasites to understand how they affect malaria transmission.
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