Malaria expert Brian Greenwood had once resigned himself to the possibility that a successful vaccine for the disease might not become available in his lifetime. Now, at 86 years old, the moment he’s spent four decades working toward has arrived.
“It’s been a long journey with many ups and downs,” says Greenwood, still an active researcher at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, leading vaccine trials across Africa. “The first attempts to develop a malaria vaccine through studies in birds were done over 100 years ago.”
Beginning today, Cameroon, a Central African nation which experiences 2.7 million cases of the disease each year, will
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