Stanford University Medical Center Researchers Seek Volunteers for Malaria Vaccine Study

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seeing children in Africa die from cerebral malaria made a lasting impression on pediatric infectious disease specialist Sharon Fei-Hsien Chen, MD. While serving in Uganda and Kenya several years ago, she often saw parents bring a sick child to the hospital only to find out that nothing could save their child. “The doctors tell them, ‘You can stay here, or you can go home, but there is nothing we can do,’” said Chen, an instructor in pediatric infectious diseases at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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