MalariaGEN Investigator - Sarah Dunstan

Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sarah Dunstan is a senior scientist at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, and a principal investigator in the Medical Sciences Division of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford.

At OUCRU Sarah leads the host genetics research program and her focus is to investigate the contribution of human genetics to infectious diseases that are important in Vietnam. This research programme is integrated with all the other research areas at OUCRU, to ensure that human genetics is not seen as an isolated research subject but as one that is a crucial component across the infectious diseases we study. Initially the genetics studies focused on typhoid fever, but soon expanded to incorporate other diseases of major importance in Vietnam, including tuberculosis, malaria and H5N1 influenza. The genetic studies of tuberculosis and malaria have focused mainly on what predisposes people to develop severe disease.

Sarah is a senior member of the MRC Translational Centre for Genomics and Global Health, which brings together informaticians and global health researchers in Vietnam, Thailand, Kenya, the Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford. Sarah actively supports the MalariaGEN Network Development Programme by providing support to MalariaGEN Data Fellows.

Sarah Dunstan and the team at OUCRU are contributing to Consortial Project 1 and Consortial Project 2. More >>