Kobporn    Boonnak

Name: Kobporn Boonnak

Position: Associate Professor

Department: Microbiology and Immunology

kobporn.boo@mahidol.ac.th




Field of Expertise

Memberships


2014-present

The Virology Association (Thailand)


U.S. PATENTS


United States Serial Number 61/490,050, filed May 25, 2011, and which is entitled “Method for Inducing an Immune Response Against Avian, Swine, H1N1, H5N1 Influenza Viruses


SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES


2019

Defining Vector Research Priorities in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region


2018

Universal Influenza vaccine, Lausanne, Switzerland


2017

International Society of vaccine annual congress, Pasture Institute, Paris, France


2016

Keystone Symposia: HIV vaccine, California


2016

Options IX for the control of influenza, Chicago


2012

Keystone Symposia: Viral Immunity and host gene influence, Keystone Resort, Colorado


2011

Keystone Symposia: Pathogenesis of Influenza virus-host Interaction, Kowloon, Hong Kong


2010

The American Society for Virology 29th Annual Meeting, Bozeman, Montana


2008

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTM&H), New Orleans, Louisiana


2007

Pediatric Dengue Initiative Program (PDVI) 4th Research Network Meeting, Cold spring Harbor Laboratory, New York


2006

BD LSRII operation course, San Jose, California


2006

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTM&H), Atlanta, Georgia


2006

Pediatric Dengue Initiative Program (PDVI) 3rd Research Network Meeting, Warrenton, Virginia


ONGOING RESEARCH SUPPORT


Program Research Management Thailand Boonnak (PI) Jun 2021 - May 2024


Establishment of primary nasal epithelium for studying SARS-CoV2 and potential zoonotic viruses


Asia Joint Research Fund Boonnak (PI-Thailand) May 2019 - Apr 2022


Investigating the sylvatic transmission and reservoir potential of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses of long-tailed macaques proximal to human populations of Thailand and Cambodia


Health Systems Research Institute Thailand Boonnak (PI) May 2020 - Apr 2022


Mechanism of proteins involved in signal transduction and pathogenesis of dengue virus infection


National Science and technology Boonnak (Co-PI) Development Agency (Thailand) May 2021 - Apr 2023


Investigation of immunological profiles in Thai dengue naive and immune volunteers


COMPLETED RESEARCH SUPPORT


US-APAC Boonnak (PI-Thailand) Mar 2018 - Mar 2019


Identification of Zika and Dengue virus mimotopes associated with early and protective humoral immune responses


Nation Vaccine Institute Boonnak (PI) Feb 2017 - Aug 2018


Development of stalk antibody assay for determination of broadly reactive anti-hemagglutinin stalk antibodies following influenza vaccine administration


National Research Council of Thailand Boonnak (Co-investigator)Nov 2014 - Nov 2017


Comparative immune response of intradermal and intramuscular vaccination of inactivated influenza vaccine in older age group


World Health Organization Boonnak (Co-investigator) Apr 2014 - Apr 2015


Evaluation of priming effects by pandemic live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV candidate vaccine strain A/17/turkey/Turkey/05/133 (H5N2)) on subsequent response to inactivated H5N1 vaccine in healthy Thai Volunteers: A non-randomized, open label study


US Army Boonnak (Co-investigator) Feb 2014 - May 2015


Generation of antigen specific memory T cells in the lungs of rhesus monkeys infected with influenza viruses and impact of aging