To conduct responsive, clinically relevant tropical medicine research MORU has developed a broad range of research capabilities. This wide interconnected web of expertise provides a research potential much greater than the sum of its parts, and we believe it is the key to our future success.

Currently this research network consists of:

• Three major research centres, in Bangkok, Mae Sot (SMRU) on the Thai-Burma border, and Vientiane, all equipped with excellent clinical research and laboratory facilities and staffed with a critical mass of well trained local and international research physicians and scientists.

• A network of clinical study sites in Thailand, Laos, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India, equipped with clinical malaria and microbiology laboratories as appropriate.

• Well established malaria research laboratories in Bangkok and Mae Sot (SMRU)

• Microbiology research laboratories in Bangkok, Mae Sot, Ubon Ratchathani, and Vientiane.

• New, international standard BioSafety Level 3 laboratories in Bangkok and Vientiane.

• Two new healthy volunteer wards at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Bangkok for conducting detailed pharmacokinetic and Phase I studies to full Good Clinical Practice standards.

• A world class pharmacology laboratory in Bangkok for developing and conducting assays of drugs in biological fluids.

• Statistical support and mathematical modelling groups.

• A Clinical Trials Support Group to support international standards of Good Clinical practice, and a developing community engagement programme on the Thai-Burmese border.

• Close ties with our sister programme in Vietnam, and with our wide network of clinical and scientific collaborators in Mahidol University, Oxford and elsewhere.

• A training programme covering all aspects of human research capacity building, from training data entry clerks and laboratory technicians to supporting and supervising PhD students.

Organogram of MORU - Major research departments are in orange, support departments in pink, and collaborating departments in the Faculty of Tropical Medicine are in green. Blue pentagons represent clinical study sites staffed by MORU, blue rectangles collaborative clinical study sites running studies coordinated by MORU.