Dr. Noppadon Tangpukdee Associate Professor of Tropical Medicine

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Background

Associate Professor Noppadon Tangpukdee, Ph.D. is involved in 3 core missions of the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University: teaching, research and academic services. He is Assistant to the Dean for Resource Management at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, a lecturer in the post graduate program at the Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine and investigator in many research projects. This latter role involves collaborating with Columbia University in the United States, and the National Centre for Global Health and Medicine in Japan as well as with numerous Thai researcher groups.

Malaria is the main topic of his research work. At present, he has 60 publications and 10 book chapters (in both Thai and English-language text books).

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine

Research

Dr. Noppadon Tangpukdee focuses on research relating to malaria and is particularly involved in a number of research projects relating to the clinical management of malaria. His publications have been recognized and used to set up a new policy for the management of malaria, for example, using primaquine to reduce malaria transmission.

Qualifications

2008 Ph.D. (Tropical Medicine) Mahidol University, Thailand
2001 M.Sc. (Toxicology) Mahidol University, Thailand
1995 B.N.S. (Nursing and Midwifery) Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Research Areas

  • Malaria

Publications

The full list of Dr. Noppadon Tangpukdee’s publications can be seen on NCBI.

Selected Publications

A Phase 3, Double-Blind, Randomized Study of Arterolane Maleate-Piperaquine Phosphate vs Artemether-Lumefantrine for Falciparum Malaria in Adolescent and Adult Patients in Asia and Africa.
Toure OA, Valecha N, Tshefu AK, Thompson R, Krudsood S, Gaye O, Rao BH, Sagara I, Bose TK, Mohanty S, Rao BS, Anvikar AR, Mwapasa V, Noedl H, Arora S, Roy A, Iyer SS, Sharma P, Saha N, Jalali RK; AM–PQP Study Team.
Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Apr 15;62(8):964-71.
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw029. Epub 2016 Feb 21.

Plasma levels of Galectin-9 reflect disease severity in malaria infection.
Dembele BP, Chagan-Yasutan H, Niki T, Ashino Y, Tangpukdee N, Shinichi E, Krudsood S, Kano S, Hattori T.
Malar J. 2016 Aug 11;15(1):403.
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1471-7.

Evaluation of Efficacy of Chloroquine for Plasmodium Vivax Infection Using Parasite Clearance Times: A 10-Year Study and Systematic Review.
Subramony H, Tangpukdee N, Krudsood S, Poovorawan K, Muangnoicharoen S, Wilairatana P.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2016 Jul;45(7):303-14

Falciparum malaria parasitemia index for predicting severe malaria.
Tangpukdee N, Krudsood S, Kano S, Wilairatana P.
Int J Lab Hematol. 2012 Jun;34(3):320-7.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-553X.2011.01398.x. Epub 2012 Jan 4.