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The SporoCore officially opened its doors in August 2020, with the help of seed funds provided by UGA’s Office of Research to Prof. Dennis Kyle, Director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. As the Director of the SporoCore, Prof. Kyle brings decades of scientific and management experience in leading the facility, with day-to-day operations overseen by the Technical Director, Dr. Ashutosh (Ash) Pathak.

What is the SporoCore?

The SporoCore provides naïve, or Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes for research purposes.

For specific questions or general inquiries, please contact Ashutosh (Ash) K. Pathak or use the links below….

For more information on the range of products offered and fees, see Services.
To learn more about how our products are being used, see Research.
To learn more more about who we are, why the UGA is suited to this role and our general research interests, see About.

Our mission

“Under-promise but over-deliver”. Our mission is to offer products that meet expected standards consistently and reliably. We look forward to working closely with the customer to ensure their needs are met.

A goal of this facility is to engender novel collaborations, so if you have any questions, suggestions, or ideas you want to test out empirically, please contact Ashutosh (Ash) Pathak or Dennis Kyle.