Monique Merchant

Monique is a biochemist with a hyper-fixation on neglected tropical diseases and the impacts of climate change on global health. Prior to joining BigHat, Monique worked between the United Kingdom and Brazil developing tools to combat Oropouche fever -- creating preliminary diagnostic tests, vaccine candidates, and antibody therapies for Oropouche virus infection. Monique maintains expertise in molecular biology of viral spike proteins and virus evolution with a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Cambridge, a M.S. from Yale University, and B.S. from Russell Sage College.