Cholrawee Promnarate is a Laboratory Technologist at the IDDO Asia Regional Centre. She joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN), now part of the IDDO platform, in June 2013.  As part of her role, Cholrawee works to support international collaborative projects such as the IMPROV study, TME study, TRAC study, and malaria projects in Bangladesh. Her key responsibilities are organising sample shipment, developing documents, packaging and shipping of specimens, and supporting study sites on laboratory equipment and laboratory consumables. Cholrawee has a MSc. Medical Sciences, Major Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Before Joining WWARN, Cholrawee worked as a laboratory technician for the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science.

Ranitha Vongpromek is the Liaison Scientist in the IDDO Asia Regional Centre. In October 2014, she joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN), now part of the IDDO platform,. Her first roles included contributing to the 'Technical field evaluation of a prototype device for automated malaria microscopy' project and the implementation of LIMS. Ranitha completed an MSc in Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She is now a PhD candidate at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and is expected to obtain her doctoral degree in 2015. She has strong experiences in molecular laboratory techniques and in clinical data management and analysis.