Poster competition kicks off annual Niklas Lindegårdh student Prize

8 October 2015

The inaugural competition for this prize is a Student Poster Competition, which will be held at MORU Bangkok, between 11am-2pm on Monday 30th November 2015 in the Similan Room. Niklas was a great advocate of student activity, and supervised numerous students as part of his role as Head of Pharmacology.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new annual prize. The Niklas Lindegårdh Memorial Student Prize is in honour of our former colleague.

We invite all MORU students to submit a poster, and if possible, to be present on the day to discuss their work and poster with MORU colleagues and staff. There will be a voting system in place for the best poster, and the winner, who will be announced at 4pm on the day, will receive a certificate, trophy and gift voucher.

If you wish to enter the Niklas Lindegårdh competition, please register your interest by email before Monday 23^rd November to Sawanya (Aeh) Anumas. Good luck to all!

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For World Malaria Day 2021, F1000 Research Blog spoke to Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah about her research focussed on drama and arts-based community engagement for malaria research, published with Wellcome Open Research.

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New report highlights growing concern of vaccine falsification

16 March 2021

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Evidence supports WHO recommendation for primaquine combined with ACTs to block Plasmodium falciparum transmission

12 February 2021

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Indonesia’s decision to prioritise COVID-19 vaccination to citizens aged 18-59 years old questionable

4 February 2021

The Indonesian government policy to exclude the elderly in the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program could hinder the vaccine’s impact in lowering mortality rates. COVID-19 mortality rates in Indonesia, the highest in Southeast Asia, are dominated by those in the 60 years and above age bracket. In this article published in The Conversation, Kartika Saraswati and fellow DPhil students elaborate how, by prioritising vaccination for elderly, Indonesia may optimally reduce the hospital burden and COVID-19 deaths amidst a limited vaccine supply during the first vaccination phase.