Dr Aung Pyae Phyo
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Aung Pyae Phyo
Post-doctoral Researcher
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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Susceptibility of Southeast Asian Plasmodium falciparum isolates to P218
Posayapisit N. et al, (2023), International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 62, 106838 - 106838
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Outbreaks of COVID-19 in a tuberculosis treatment sanatorium on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a retrospective cohort analysis
Aung HKK. et al, (2023), Wellcome Open Research, 8, 272 - 272
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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
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Malaria - Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention.
Baden L. et al, (2023), The New England journal of medicine, 388
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Pf7: an open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 20,000 worldwide samples
Abdel Hamid MM. et al, (2023), Wellcome Open Research, 8, 22 - 22