Jane M. Carlton

[1] Carlton began her career as an assistant scientist in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Silver Professors are named by NYU and chosen in recognition of their accomplishments and commitment to undergraduate education.

[4] In 2020, Carlton additionally joined the faculty in the School of Global Public Health at NYU as a professor of epidemiology.

The CSCMi partners with local researchers, clinicians, and public health workers to develop knowledge, tools, and evidence-based strategies to support Indian malaria intervention and control programs and to build malaria research capacity in India.

[1] Carlton is among a group of scientists recording and categorizing changes in all of the malaria parasite's genes at once, with a view toward detecting drug resistance in its earliest stages while it can still be controlled, finding new vulnerabilities in the parasite's genome that can be exploited to fight malaria.

[11][12] The sequencing project also revealed that the parasite's genome is surprisingly large and composed mostly of highly repetitive ‘mobile’ DNA elements.