Professor François H Nosten
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Podcast interview
Between research and humanitarian
Healthcare and research at the Thai-Burma border: Combining healthcare and research allow Professor Nosten to implement a new treatment regimen as soon as the results from clinical trials are available, which is beneficial to patients and highly rewarding for researchers.
François Nosten
Professor in Tropical Medicine
- Director of the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Thailand
Shoklo Malaria research Unit
Dr Nosten’s work concentrates on uncomplicated malaria and he has conducted the largest ever drug trials in malaria in an area which has the world’s most drug-resistant parasites, including a detailed study of the SPf66 malaria vaccine. Recent studies have concentrated on the efficacy and effectiveness of combination anti malarial therapy. Dr Nosten has also investigated malaria prophylaxis and antimalarial treatment in pregnancy and the identification of thiamine deficiency (beri-beri) as a major cause of infant mortality amongst Karen refugees.
Recent publications
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Journal article
Fadilah I. et al, (2024), PLoS Med, 21
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Journal article
Chaumeau V. et al, (2024), Antimicrob Agents Chemother
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Preprint
Fadilah I. et al, (2024)
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Journal article
Thu AM. et al, (2024), Malar J, 23
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Journal article
Wattanakul T. et al, (2024), Nat Commun, 15