Sylvia Jebiwott, MPH
Research Study Coordinator
GHS - Programs
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Awards

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• Mastercard Scholarship, UC Berkeley, 2016-2018

Education & Training

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• MPH Public Health University of California, Berkeley 05/2018
• BS Biology Yale University 05/2012

Publications (15)

Top publication keywords:
Carcinoma, Transitional Cellbcl-X ProteinTanzaniaUrotheliumHost-Parasite InteractionsChild HealthUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsIntelligencePlasmodium bergheiAntimalarialsPhotochemotherapyBacteriochlorophyllsBombesinMalariaProtein Kinases

• Socioeconomic disparities in children's neurodevelopment before and during primary education: Evidence from Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
  PloS one 2026 Manyiri MW, Loss G, Martin-Herz SP, Sumari D, Gutapaka N, Athuman T, Simando S, Jebiwott S, Wu X, Manji K, Olotu A, Hsiang MS, Fink G
• CRISPR/Cas9 knockout and editing of the major cysteine protease in Entamoeba histolytica.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026 Huang W, Suleiman RL, Luder T, Jebiwott S, Ralston KS
• Usability and psychometric properties of a battery of tools to assess intelligence, executive functioning, and sustained attention in Tanzanian children.
  PloS one 2024 Loss G, Cummins H, Gutapaka N, Nyandele J, Jebiwott S, Sumari D, Athuman T, Juma O, Martin-Herz SP, Olotu A, Hsiang MS, Fink G
• Comparative study of immune response to local tumor destruction modalities in a murine breast cancer model.
  Frontiers in oncology 2024 Budhu S, Kim K, Yip W, La Rosa S, Jebiwott S, Cai L, Holland A, Thomas J, Preise D, Somma A, Gordon B, Scherz A, Wolchok JD, Erinjeri J, Merghoub T, Coleman JA
• Child Health and Infection with Low Density (CHILD) malaria: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the long-term health and socioeconomic impacts of testing and treating low-density malaria infection among children in Tanzania.
  BMJ open 2024 Jebiwott S, Gutapaka N, Sumari D, Loss G, Athuman T, Nyandele JP, Cummins H, Chemba M, Benjamin-Chung J, Gangar P, Wu X, Smith J, Chen I, Dorsey G, Fink G, Olotu A, Hsiang M

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• Modeling biological and genetic diversity in upper tract urothelial carcinoma with patient derived xenografts.
  Nature communications 2020 Kim K, Hu W, Audenet F, Almassi N, Hanrahan AJ, Murray K, Bagrodia A, Wong N, Clinton TN, Dason S, Mohan V, Jebiwott S, Nagar K, Gao J, Penson A, Hughes C, Gordon B, Chen Z, Dong Y, Watson PA, Alvim R…
• Effectiveness of the combination of vascular targeted photodynamic therapy and anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 in a preclinical mouse model of urothelial carcinoma.
  International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association 2019 Corradi RB, LaRosa S, Jebiwott S, Murray KS, Rosenzweig B, Somma AJ, Gomez RS, Scherz A, Kim K, Coleman JA
• Androgen Deprivation Therapy Potentiates the Efficacy of Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy of Prostate Cancer Xenografts.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2018 Kim K, Watson PA, Lebdai S, Jebiwott S, Somma AJ, La Rosa S, Mehta D, Murray KS, Lilja H, Ulmert D, Monette S, Scherz A, Coleman JA
• WST11 Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy Effect Monitoring by Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) in Mice.
  Theranostics 2018 Neuschmelting V, Kim K, Malekzadeh-Najafabadi J, Jebiwott S, Prakash J, Scherz A, Coleman JA, Kircher MF, Ntziachristos V
• Contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging can predict vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy induced tumor necrosis in small animals.
  Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy 2017 Cornelis FH, Kim K, Durack JC, Jebiwott S, Scherz A, Srimathveeravalli G, Coleman JA
• Targeting the differential addiction to anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family for cancer therapy.
  Nature communications 2017 Inoue-Yamauchi A, Jeng PS, Kim K, Chen HC, Han S, Ganesan YT, Ishizawa K, Jebiwott S, Dong Y, Pietanza MC, Hellmann MD, Kris MG, Hsieh JJ, Cheng EH
• Bombesin Antagonist-Based Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer Combined with WST-11 Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2017 Kim K, Zhang H, La Rosa S, Jebiwott S, Desai P, Kimm S, Scherz A, O'Donoghue JA, Weber WA, Coleman JA
• Invasion of hepatocytes by Plasmodium sporozoites requires cGMP-dependent protein kinase and calcium dependent protein kinase 4.
  Molecular microbiology 2016 Govindasamy K, Jebiwott S, Jaijyan DK, Davidow A, Ojo KK, Van Voorhis WC, Brochet M, Billker O, Bhanot P
• Treatment Effects of WST11 Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy for Urothelial Cell Carcinoma in Swine.
  The Journal of urology 2016 Murray KS, Winter AG, Corradi RB, LaRosa S, Jebiwott S, Somma A, Takaki H, Srimathveeravalli G, Lepherd M, Monette S, Kim K, Scherz A, Coleman JA
• Plasmodium berghei calcium dependent protein kinase 1 is not required for host cell invasion.
  PloS one 2013 Jebiwott S, Govindaswamy K, Mbugua A, Bhanot P