Fabián Sáenz, PhD.

Molecular epidemiology of the malaria parasite 

    Education:

• 2011 - 2015. Postdoctoral fellow Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health), D43 Training Grant.
• 2008 - 2011. Postdoctoral fellow: Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida.
• 2008. PhD. in Biology of Infectious Diseases, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA.
• 2001. Bachelor in Biology. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

  Current position: 

• Principal Investigator at the Center for Research on Health in Latin America. 
• CONIEIT (National Committee of Researchers on Infectious and Tropical Diseases) President.
• Professor at the School of Biological Sciences. College of Exact and Natural Sciences. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

 Current research (PUCE): Health and Vulnerable Groups. 

  Recent publications: 

• Martin, J. A., Hendershot, A. L., Saá Portilla, I. A., English, D. J., Woodruff, M., Vera-Arias, C. A.,  Salazar-Costa, B.E., Bustillos, J.J., Saénz, F.E., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Koepfli, C. & Lobo, N. F. (2020). Anopheline and human drivers of malaria risk in northern coastal, Ecuador: a pilot study. Malaria Journal 19(1), 354. doi:10.1186/s12936-020-03426-y

• Salazar-Costa, B., Vera-Arias, C. Tamayo, M., Yumiseva C., Cagua-Ordoñez, J.C., Gomez-Obando, J., Sáenz, F.E. (2020). High prevalence of asymptomatic malaria infections on the Ecuador-Colombia border. Práctica Familiar Rural  5(2). Doi: https://doi.org/10.23936/pfr.v5i2.157

• Fletcher IK, Stewart-Ibarra AM, Sippy R, Carrasco-Escobar G, Silva M, Beltran-Ayala E, Ordoñez T, Adrian J, Sáenz FE, Drakeley C, Jones KE and Lowe R (2020) The Relative Role of Climate Variation and Control Interventions on Malaria Elimination Efforts in El Oro, Ecuador: A Modeling Study. Front. Environ. Sci. 8:135. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00135

• Vera-Arias, C. A., Castro, L. E., Gómez-Obando, J., & Sáenz, F. E. (2019). Diverse origin of Plasmodium falciparum in northwest Ecuador. Malaria journal, 18(1), 251. doi:10.1186/s12936-019-2891-y

• Valenzuela, G., Castro, L.E., Valencia-Zamora, J., Vera‑Arias, C.A., Rohrbach, P. and Sáenz, F.E. (2019). Genotypes and phenotypes of resistance in Ecuadorian Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria journal, 18, 415. doi:10.1186/s12936-019-3044-z

• Sáenz, F. E., Arévalo-Cortés, A., Valenzuela, G., Vallejo, A. F., Castellanos, A., Poveda-Loayza, A. C., et al. (2017). Malaria epidemiology in low-endemicity areas of the northern coast of Ecuador: high prevalence of asymptomatic infections. Malaria journal 16(1), 300 

Libros

• Anita G. Villacís, Fabián E. Sáenz, Marco V. Neira, Mario J. Grijalva. 2018. Ecosalud en las enfermedades transmitidas por vectores: Chagas, Dengue y Malaria. Tercer tomo (Ciencia de la Salud). La Medicina Ecuatoriana en el siglo XXI. Academia Ecuatoriana de Medicina Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Corporación Editora Nacional, editor Jaime Breilh.

  Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6460-5373

                   ReseachGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabian_Saenz