Clinician, pharmacologist, and bioethicist with more than twenty years across malaria research, university teaching, and research ethics leadership. My work centres on keeping antimalarial drugs effective — from the molecular basis of resistance to how drugs behave in patients — alongside training the clinicians who will carry that work forward.
About
Dr Fraction Dzinjalamala
Clinical pharmacologist working to outsmart drug-resistant malaria
Department of Clinical Sciences, MUST
Profile
Education
- PhD in Pharmacology
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacology
- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Diploma in Clinical Medicine
- Malawi College of Health Sciences
- Fellow in Bioethics
- Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, USA
Appointments
- Senior Lecturer
- Malawi University of Science and Technology · 2022 – present
- Acting Head, Department of Clinical Sciences
- Malawi University of Science and Technology · 2024 – present
- Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry
- College of Medicine (now Kamuzu University of Health Sciences) · ten years
- Research Scientist
- Blantyre Malaria Project / Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust · ten years
A decade as a Research Scientist studying the molecular basis of antimalarial drug resistance, malaria pathogenesis in pregnancy, and the pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials and anticonvulsants — followed by ten years teaching pharmacology and medicinal chemistry, with a seat on the University Senate.
Research interests
- Malaria chemotherapy
- Molecular basis of antimicrobial drug resistance
- Clinical pharmacokinetics
- Bioanalytical method development and validation
- Radiopharmacology and radiation safety
- Phytomedicine and ethnopharmacology
Research outputs
More than 28 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters on malaria and bioanalytical methods, and an edited medical book. A full, citable archive will live under Research as papers are added; the existing record is on ResearchGate.
Service & leadership
- Member, MUST Research Ethics Committee (MUSTREC)
- College of Medicine Research Ethics Committee — six years, including three as Vice Chair; three years representing the committee on the National Health Sciences Research Committee
- Curriculum development and review for certificate, diploma, and BSc Clinical Medicine programmes
Teaching & outreach
Pharmacology teaching across diploma programmes in nursing, anaesthesia, and clinical medicine at the Malawi College of Health Sciences — alongside undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at MUST and KuHeS.
Contact
For collaborations, speaking invitations, supervision enquiries, or press: fdzinjalamala@must.ac.mw