About the Authors

Sai Sundar Rajan Raghavan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Robert Dagil

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mary Lopez-Perez

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Julian Conrad

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Swedish National Cryo-EM Facility, Science for Life Laboratories, Solna, Sweden

Maria Rosaria Bassi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria del Pilar Quintana

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Swati Choudhary

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tobias Gustavsson

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Yong Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Joint Research Centre for Engineering Biology, Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Pontus Gourdon

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Michael Fokuo Ofori

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Sebastian Boje Christensen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Daniel Thomas Remias Minja

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga Centre, Tanga, Tanzania

Christentze Schmiegelow

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Morten Agertoug Nielsen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lea Barfod

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Hviid

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ali Salanti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Thomas Lavstsen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

thomasl@sund.ku.dk (TL); kaituo@sund.ku.dk (KW)

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department for Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kaituo Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

thomasl@sund.ku.dk (TL); kaituo@sund.ku.dk (KW)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AS, and MAN are listed as co-inventors on a patent family covering the use of VAR2CSA to target and diagnose cancer. AS and is listed as co-inventor on a patent on using VAR2CSA as a prophylactic malaria vaccine during pregnancy. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.