Claire Chewapreecha

Guwahati in the morning - gearing up for the South Asian Melioidosis Congress and feeling excited already!

@peppermin5 A huge thank you @peppermin5 !

@chewapreecha Congratulations @chewapreecha ! Very well-deserved!💗💗👍👍 all the best!

Humbled and deeply grateful to @wellcometrust for awarding us another 8 years of support through the Wellcome Career Development Award to study melioidosis in the Lower Mekong region - a neglected tropical disease that affects my home country and our neighbours. (1/n)

@Le_Van_Tan Thank you so much!

@chewapreecha Huge congratulations. Richly deserved!!!

@MichaelWKChew @wellcometrust It has truly been a privilege, and I feel so fortunate to have had someone looking out for my career. I am incredibly grateful. Wishing you a wonderful retirement - you will be deeply missed 🥹 Please let me know when you next visit Thailand.

@chewapreecha @wellcometrust Congratulations @chewapreecha on a fantastic achievement. I have followed your career for many years, and am glad @wellcometrust is continuing to support you. Today is my last day at work before retiring. So happy to see your post before I leave.

We will also look at clinical and environmental factors that might modify this risk. Integral to this project is to train the next generation, build local research leaders, and capacity where it is needed the most. We will work hard to do justice to this opportunity 🌟🙏(3/3)

We will profile the omics of 1,500 healthy individuals and 1,500 patients, along with the causative bacteria from the environment and patients, to understand the full spectrum of the disease - from exposure to infection, acute illness, and post-discharge readmission (2/n)

If you're passionate about tackling antimicrobial resistance through genomics, we’d love to welcome you to the AMRTarget community! Join us at targetamr.org.uk We currently have just a few members from South and Southeast Asia - let’s grow this part of the family together!

It came together through workshops in London and Cape Town, plus lots of late-night calls (Thailand time... explains the tired look in 2024–2025). Really glad to see it out, and excited for what’s next as we keep pushing for more inclusive research.

A great policy piece led by the Wellcome Trust, on the challenges of involving wider communities in genomic research—and how we can start to break those barriers. wellcome.org/reports/ethica…

A thread about antibiotic access that ends with our new commentary: As we reviewed in #TheLancetAMRSeries last year thelancet.com/series/antibio…, (in)access is as much a problem as excess in addressing infection management and antimicrobial resistance.../2

If you have experience in sc/spatial transcriptomics with an interest in microbes....come and join our team as a computational postdoc: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/WellcomeSang... Incredibly exciting datasets on host-microbe interactions in the lung. Pls RT and reach out if you are interested

Behind every great woman in science is another amazing woman in science, inspiring, supporting, and lifting her up. Happy International Women Day! nature.com/articles/d4158…

@iruka_okeke A huge congratulations Iruka!

Very honored to be on this distinguished list of new American Academy of Microbiology fellows. I thank the incredible mentors that started me out on a microbiology discovery journey, my peers - incl some fellows - for holding my hand thru it & many mentees for traveling with me

@ee_davenport @WilliamAstle Many congratulations!!!

Congratulations Dr (Dr) Dhupal Patel on your successful PhD viva! Thank you to the examiners (Manu Shankar-Hari and @WilliamAstle), our BioAID collaborators and the team for all the support!

@ee_davenport @WilliamAstle A massive congratulations!!!

It has been a privilege to work with the Sanger Institute and be an International Fellow. Thank you so much for recognising both me and our work on melioidosis. I am so grateful for our collaboration during this fellowship and beyond 🙏😃 linkedin.com/posts/wellcome…

@chainorato @NatureRevMicro Thanks for your kind words na ka. Let me know if I can help when you return!

@chewapreecha @NatureRevMicro I'm really grateful that you've documented these challenges. I have many concerns about the Thai research environment as a person who needs to return home. I hope this article will drive some impact on the relevant government agencies. Thank you so much for your great article!

Conducting research in LMICs is undeniably challenging, with brain drain often surpassing reverse brain drain. Grateful to @NatureRevMicro for the opportunity to share an opinion discussing both the difficulties and rewards of working in this space. rdcu.be/d7O5Q [1/2]

@ChanasitJonas @NatureRevMicro Thank you so much 🙏

@chewapreecha @NatureRevMicro Very important contribution. Thank you 🙏

@khanabdoosh_ @NatureRevMicro Let’s keep pushing Ahmad! You’ve got this 💪😀

@chewapreecha @NatureRevMicro Every point in this commentary is relatable to my PhD story! And obviously every researcher from LMICs.