Regina Joice Cordy

Detecting malaria can often be a complicated endeavor. What makes it even more so is the fact that chronic infections, which account for 75% of all malaria cases, often present no symptoms. Regina Joice Cordy, assistant professor of biology at Wake Forest University, is leading a team of researchers exploring the differences in blood chemistry between acute and chronic malaria cases to deliver better diagnoses and treatments for a condition that infects more than 263 million people across the globe.