Dominic Kwiatkowski obituary

Paediatrician and geneticist determined to save the lives of children in countries where malaria is endemic

Malaria kills more than half a million people every year, mostly children under the age of five in Africa. Saving the lives of those children was the lifelong mission of Dominic Kwiatkowski, who has died suddenly aged 69.

Allied to that ambition was his vision that genetic sequencing - a technology that was beginning to be affordable on a large scale in the 2000s - could answer questions about why some children died and others survived.

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