The Team Behind the Vaccine

TTUHSC’s Center for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases is led by Afzal Siddiqui, PhD, Grover E. Murray Professor. Siddiqui’s team consists of postdocs, assistant professors, medical students, graduate students—some whom have been with him for a decade.

Eunjee Kim, MBA, center administrator. “Along with my bachelor’s degree from the Honors College, I minored in both biology and chemistry. I also have a master’s in business, so I do some research work as well as taking care of the business side.”

Adebayo Molehim, PhD, postdoctoral research associate. “I came from Australia in 2014. In Australia, we didn’t have access to trials on nonhuman primates, so when Dr. Siddiqui reached out to my boss about the opportunity to work in his center, I knew I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.”

Weidong Zhang, PhD, postdoctoral research associate. “I’ve been with Dr. Siddiqui for over 10 years now. I was not a parasitologist but my mother is, and I wanted to try to do research in the field. It’s been a great experience, and I have a lot of respect for Dr. Siddiqui. He really focuses on education in his work and wants everyone to learn and take something from the research.”

Jordan May, graduate student in biotechnology. “Once I narrowed down the focus of research I wanted to be involved in, my professor put Dr. Siddiqui at the top of the recommendation list!”