Dr Aung Pyae Phyo
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Aung Pyae Phyo
Post-doctoral Researcher
- Associate Research Fellow
Aung Pyae Phyo is a a Burmese (Myanmar) Post-doctoral Researcher at MORU's Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand. After finishing medical training in 2001 in Yangon, Aung joined SMRU as a research assistant (2005-2008), research clinician (2009-2013) and DPhil student (2013-2017).
After receiving his DPhil in Clinical Medicine at Oxford University in 2017, Aung moved to MORU's Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU) in Yangon, Myanmar and worked as a senior clinician scientist until 2021. In 2019 he received the post-doctoral International Training fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to assess the immune decay after malaria elimination and the risk of malaria resurgence, and a seed grant from Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME) for the project: Field evaluation of a point-of-contact device for P. falciparum malaria sero-surveillance.
Aung's current research focus is malaria elimination, malaria immunity and anti-microbial resistance.
Recent publications
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Molecular markers of artemisinin resistance during falciparum malaria elimination in Eastern Myanmar.
Thu AM. et al, (2024), Malaria journal, 23
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Ethical and cultural implications for conducting verbal autopsies in South and Southeast Asia: a qualitative study
Htun NSN. et al, (2023), BMJ Global Health, 8, e013462 - e013462
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A systematic review of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Myanmar.
Swe MMM. et al, (2023), PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 17
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Severe Falciparum and Vivax Malaria on the Thailand-Myanmar Border: A Review of 1503 Cases.
Chu CS. et al, (2023), Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 77, 721 - 728
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Severe falciparum malaria in pregnancy in Southeast Asia: a multi-centre retrospective cohort study.
Saito M. et al, (2023), BMC medicine, 21