Dominic Kwiatkowski FRS FMedSci FRCP^[4][5] (25 May 1953 – 27 April 2023) was an English medical researcher and geneticist who was head of the parasites and microbes programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute^[3] in Cambridge and a Professor of Genomics at the University of Oxford.^[4] Kwiatkowski applied genomics and computational analysis to problems in infectious disease, with the aim of finding ways to reduce the burden of disease in the developing world.^[4][6][7][8]

Kwiatkowski trained as a paediatrician at Guy's Hospital^[when?] in London.^[4]

Kwiatkowski spent several years in West Africa, where malaria causes high levels of infant mortality, and this was a major focus of his research over the past thirty years.^[4] He made significant contributions to the understanding of malaria pathogenesis and genetic mechanisms of resistance to the disease.^[4] He also pioneered genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Africa and led large international collaborations to characterise the genomic diversity of parasite and mosquito populations around the world.^[4] This work is yielding deep insights into the evolutionary biology of drug resistance and pesticide resistance with practical implications for disease control.^[4]

In 2005 Kwiatkowski founded a data-sharing network, MalariaGEN, which has fostered productive research collaborations in more than forty malaria endemic countries, and has become a model for equitable sharing of genetic data and research capacity building in resource-poor settings.^[4][1]

Kwiatkowski died on 27 April 2023, at the age of 69.^[9]

Kwiatkowski was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018^[4] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000.^[10]