Professor Joel Tarning

Professor Joel Tarning leads a large and diverse team of 30 people studying clinical pharmacology at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Thailand. The main scientific directions within the group are pharmacometric data analysis, bioanalytical method development, drug quantification of clinical study samples, omics-based research, falsified/substandard medicine, and basic pharmacology. He is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, UK and a visiting Professor at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand. Professor Tarning has published >250 peer-reviewed articles resulting in >18,500 citations. His main research is focused on dose-optimisation of drugs used to treat neglected tropical diseases in under-served populations at risk of treatment failure and resistance development, such as children and pregnant women. His work on antimalarial drugs has already had a global impact.