Parr Tate

Parr Tate (27 April 1901 – 7 November 1985) was an Irish parasitologist, particularly known for his research on malaria. He spent his entire academic career in Cambridge, England, where he was Reader in Parasitology (1949–68) and head of the Department of Parasitology at the University of Cambridge, director of the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology (1953–68), and one of the founding fellows of what is now Wolfson College, Cambridge. He was the editor of the journal Parasitology (1952–68).

Biography Tate was born in County Cork on 27 April 1901. In 1937–38, with Sydney Price James, using chickens infected with P. gallinaceum sporozoites, Tate demonstrated a novel Plasmodium life-cycle stage outside red blood cells in which the parasite infects endothelial cells, particularly in the brain. The finding undermined the long-held view that Plasmodium sporozoites infected red blood cells directly, and was later replicated in primates by Henry Shortt and Cyril Garnham.

Source Irwin Sherman. Reflections on a Century of Malaria Biochemistry (Academic Press; 2011)