Rachel Daniels

Rachel Daniels, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School's RNA Therapeutics Institute, with dual affiliation at T.H. Chan School of Medicine. Her research bridges genetics, genomics, and infectious disease epidemiology with focus on malaria parasite populations.

• Education: BS in Biology from Brandeis University, PhD from Harvard Medical School

Research Focus: Utilizes genomic surveillance and SNP-based barcoding to analyze Plasmodium falciparum transmission dynamics, drug resistance evolution, and molecular epidemiology. Key work includes longitudinal studies in Senegal and Zambia examining genetic complexity changes following drug interventions.

Publication Trends: Recent work (2024-2025) emphasizes RNA profiling for transgene regulation, while earlier publications (2017-2021) focus on malaria parasite genetic surveillance in West Africa, drug resistance monitoring, and computational methods for infection tracking.