Re-engineering African livestock to fight diseases and backing One health strategies, by Prof Jayne Raper, from the department of biological sciences at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY).
Jayne Raper is professor in the department of biological sciences at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), where she has been on staff since 2011. She is currently managing a project that ILRI is participating in. Funded by the US National Science Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project is working to generate transgenic cows that will be resistant to all forms of a lethal parasite, the African trypanosome, which is transmitted to cattle by the bite of a tsetse fly as it takes a bloodmeal. Before joining CUNY, Jayne was associate professor in the department of microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology (ICP), in Brussels – Belgium, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in the USA. Born and raised in the UK, she earned a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge.