Pattara Khamrin, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Department vice chair
pattara.k@cmu.ac.th
Office
50th Anniversary building, Room 715, Faculty of Medicine
Research interest
Assoc. Prof. Pattara’s research interests focuses on the molecular epidemiology of viral gastroenteritis in patients, animals, and environmental sources, development of a rapid diagnostic test and vaccine for gastroenteritis viruses. She has authored and co-authored more than 130 research papers and 6 book chapters.
Short biography
Assoc. Prof. Pattara earned her B.Sc. in Medical Technology and M.Sc. in Microbiology (Virology) at Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 1998 and 2004, respectively. She received The Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho; MEXT) for her Ph.D. study at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2004. She received her doctorate degree in 2008 and continued her research in Japan as a postdoctoral-fellow (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) at Aino Health Science Center, Aino University, Tokyo, Japan until 2010 and joined the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University as a faculty member in 2010.
Field of research
Virology; Molecular epidemiology
Current projects
“1. Emerging and re-emerging diarrheal viruses research cluster (Chiang Mai University) 2. Diarrheal viruses (Rotavirus, Norovirus, and Sapovirus), Pediatric patients with diarrhea, Piglets with diarrhea, Environmental water (Thailand Science Research and Innovation) 3. Molecular epidemiology of gastroenteritis viruses in Southeast Asian countries (eAsia, Japan)4. Study on diarrheal viruses in Thailand (AMED, Japan)”