Scientist survives several near misses — including a crash-landing — before turning his efforts toward fighting malaria

Off on his own in South America, he gets typhoid. In California, he is infected with malaria. On his way to a research site in Africa, the plane carrying him crash-lands.

Is Stephen Hoffman, the leader of malaria-vaccine developer Sanaria, scared by his past skirmishes with death? Sometimes.

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Sanaria has snagged a research grant worth more than $4 million from the Army to work on a malaria vaccine, which the biotech company hopes to have in human testing a year from now.