Christian F. Ockenhouse is a Colonel in the
United States Army Medical Corps and works at the
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver
Spring MD as Deputy Director of the Division of
Malaria Vaccine Development and Chief of the
Department of Vivax Malaria Vaccine Discovery and
Functional Genomics. He received is M.D. from the
Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and
his Ph.D. from the Sackler Institute of Biomedical
Science from New York University School of Medicine
in New York City and a M.S. in Parasitology from
theTulane University School of Public Health and
Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He received is
graduate medical training in Internal Medicine and
in Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington D.C. Dr. Ockenhouse's
professional interests are in vaccine development
and testing of products in Phase I, II, III clinical
development in the United States and at field sites
in Kisumu, Kenya and in Bangkok, Thailand. His
research interests also include the molecular
immunology and functional genomics of malaria and
HIV disease by assessing whole genome gene
expression patterns to determine correlates of
protective immunity. He has led outbreak
investigations around the globe on behalf on the
U.S. military.