Dr. Mallika Imwong is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Tropical Medicine and Genetics. She has an M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ph.D. in Tropical Medicine from Mahidol University. Prof. Mallika is an established malariologist, with numerous awards recognizing her achievements in malaria research. She won national awards for inventing Ultra-sensitive qPCR, a molecular diagnostic technique that can reveal asymptomatic potentially infected malaria patients.