Background

Dr. Sasithon Pukrittayakamee is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine. Her work is largely focused on anti-malarial drug discovery, with an emphasis on the particular challenges involved with the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. Dr. Sasithon is an established research leader in Southeast Asia.

Departments/Centers

• Clinical Tropical Medicine

Research

Dr. Sasithon is a global authority on tropical infectious diseases, especially clinical trials, malaria vaccines, malaria infection, anti-malarial drugs, and malaria-transmission blocking. She has over 190 peer-reviewed publications and expertise in such subjects as the treatment of severe malaria, the conducting of open and randomized trials, the effects of different antimalarial drugs, genotyping, and in exploring the contribution of candidate genes to artemisinin resistance. She is also very interested in education, training and mentoring new malaria researchers in Thailand.

Ongoing Research Project(s)