Titles

Professor of Medicine

Physician-Scientist, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health

Director, Malaria Vaccine and Challenge Unit

School Affiliation

School of Medicine

Specialties

• Malaria Vaccines and Immunology

About

(410) 706-7376 klyke@som.umaryland.edu

Dr. Lyke is a clinical translational investigator with recognized expertise in malaria, tropical diseases, and parasite immunology. Dr. Lyke is board certified in adult Infectious Diseases and maintains an HIV clinic in addition to attending on the hospital wards as an Infectious Diseases Attending. She has been on faculty at the University of Maryland (UMB) School of Medicine since 2002. She is the current Director of The Malaria Vaccine and Challenge Unit. Much of her early academic career was spent pursuing fieldwork in Mali, West Africa, studying malaria and helminthes immunology, epidemiology and co-infection.

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This information was last updated December 13, 2024.