Professor Paul Newton is Head of the IDDO Medicine Quality Research Group. He was appointed Head of the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN) Antimalarial Quality Group in 2010. He was the founding Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in the Microbiology Laboratory of Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, Laos, from 2000 to 2019 and now works based from Oxford. After junior doctor training in infectious disease and internal medicine in the UK, he worked in the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit in Bangkok on malaria and melioidosis for four years before moving to Laos.
Dr Céline Caillet joined IDDO as Scientific Coordinator of the Medicine Quality Research Group in 2015. She was appointed Research Scientist in 2016 and promoted to Deputy Head of the Research Group in 2020.
Céline is a pharmacist and former resident of the Hospital of Toulouse. She has taken part in several research projects on drug safety at the Center of Pharmacovigilance, Laboratory of Medical and Clinical Pharmacology of Toulouse, France. Following her MSc in Epidemiology and Public Health in Bordeaux, France, Céline completed her PhD in drug safety in Laos. During her PhD, Céline also taught pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Health Sciences, Vientiane.
She is particularly interested in the epidemiology of substandard and falsified medicines and testing the performances of screening technologies for early detection of substandard and falsified medicines.
Makoto is an infectious disease physician by training and a clinical epidemiologist. He joined WWARN/IDDO in 2015 as a DPhil student (2015-2019, at St Edmund Hall), under the supervision of Prof Philippe Guérin (IDDO Director) and Prof Rose McGready (SMRU, University of Oxford, Thailand).
Over the past several years, he has dedicated his work to studying the epidemiology of malaria in pregnancy, focusing particularly on the pharmacoepidemiology of antimalarials during pregnancy.
His research interests extend broadly to the epidemiology of clinical infectious diseases, with a particular focus on malaria and other tropical infectious diseases, as well as nosocomial bacterial infections and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
He earned an MD from the University of Tokyo, as well as an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health and an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a certified epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist in Japan and a fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.
Prof Joel Tarning was appointed Head of Pharmacometrics at the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN) - part of the IDDO network - in 2014. He applies pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling to optimise antimalarial drug therapy through large pooled pharmacometric analyses. He has been an active member of WWARN since 2009 and led the Pharmacology Proficiency Programme for 2 years. Joel has extensive experience in the field of Clinical Pharmacology, is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Oxford University, and is heading the Clinical Pharmacology Department at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Research Unit, Thailand. His main research focuses on infectious disease pharmacology, especially in pregnant women and children. Joel received the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS)Giorgio Segré Prize for pharmaceutical research in June 2015.