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| Jane Cardosa, Ph.D. |
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graduated from Princeton University Class of '74 and did
postgraduate training at Oxford University under Dr James
Porterfield from 1980 to 1984 where her D. Phil. thesis
was on the Immunology of Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever. She
received postdoctoral training on the Rockefeller Foundation
fellowship at the Scripps in LaJolla in 1985 and subsequently
returned to Malaysia to set up a laboratory in Penang
to continue research in dengue haemorrhagic fever with
funding from the Wellcome Trust and the International
Development Research Centre. She developed a nitrocellulose
based test for the diagnosis of dengue infection appropriate
for use in the periphery in 1988 and subsequently developed
several other tests for the diagnosis of dengue and the
related Japanese encephalitis virus. In 1995 she moved
to Sarawak on the island of Borneo where she is the founding
director of the Institute of Health and Community Medicine
at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Her major challenge
of the past few years has been the setting up of a modern
state-of-the-art virology laboratory in Borneo. Current
passions are the development of an MVA-vectored dengue
vaccine. She is also heavily involved in the study of
emerging virus infections particularly of the central
nervous system. |
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