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Dr. Craft is the Chief Scientific Officer for Medicines for Malaria Venture in Geneva since 2002. During that time MMV has grown from a portfolio of 11 projects to the present portfolio with 20 projects, 3 in phase III clinical trials, 4 in Phase I/II, one in preclinical development and 12 projects in discovery. To date MMV has raised over 250 million dollars to support the largest ever anti-malarial drug development portfolio. Before coming to MMV he was at Abbott Laboratories for 15 years in Anti-Infective Development. Before moving to Industry he was at Tulane University in the Department of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases and Department of Pathology for 8 years. At Tulane he was the Director of Pediatric Closed at the Care Charity Hospital of New Orleans and Director of The Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Tulane Medical Center. He served for 2 years in the Navy with a rank of Lieutenant Commander and was Chief of Pediatrics at the U.S. Naval Regional Medical Center, Guam, M.I.. He was a Research Fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas Texas, under Drs. John Nelson and George McCracken. He did his residency in Pediatrics at Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his MD from The George Washington University, Medical School in Washington, D.C. | 