GenRe-Mekong project is a collaborative endeavor bringing together scientific expertise and partnering with the National Malaria Control Programmes in the Greater Mekong Subregion to eliminate malaria.
National Malaria Control Programmes
We collaborates with NMCPs to establish large-scale collections of small blood samples from malaria patients, and conduct extensive genetic analyses, providing public health decision-makers with information on the extent and spread of resistance to anti-malarials in the geographical region covered.
Central & Highlands Vietnam
Institute of Malariology Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN)
Scientific Partners
Dr Cristina Ariani
Dr Cristina leads the team responsible for building tools and services allowing partners to implement amplicon sequencing for genomic surveillance of malaria parasites. The team is based in the Genomic Surveillance Unit at Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Dr Nguyen Thanh Thuy Nhien
Dr Nhien leads the regional Malaria laboratory at OUCRU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since 2021, her laboratory has been processing and genotyping samples from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
Professor Mallika Imwong
Prof Mallika leads the in-country Molecular Malaria laboratory at MORU, Bangkok, Thailand. Her laboratory will be processing and genotyping samples from Thailand.
Funders
GenRe-Mekong project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Fund.
Supporting Institutions
The headquarter of the consortium is based at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), with strong collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) and Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU).
Global community
The GenRe-Mekong project is part of the global community of MalariaGEN data-sharing genomic epidemiology network.
