Rate My Professor Rina Wong

Dr Rina Wong (Fu) is a knowledge broker and research fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, as well as a teaching academic at Curtin Medical School. She holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD from The University of Western Australia. Her PhD research on malaria drug resistance in Papua New Guinea earned her the Australian Society for Parasitology Sprent Medal. Throughout her career, she has published extensively on Plasmodium falciparum drug susceptibility, resistance mechanisms, and novel antimalarials. Notable publications include "Desbutyl-Lumefantrine Is a Metabolite of Lumefantrine with Potent In Vitro Antimalarial Activity That May Influence Artemether-Lumefantrine Treatment Outcome" (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2011), "Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter and Multidrug Resistance 1 Genes: Parasite Risk Factors That Affect Treatment Outcomes" (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014), and "In vitro susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from East New Britain Province to antimalarial drugs using a colorimetric lactate dehydrogenase assay" (2018). Recent research interests encompass malaria, adult stem cells, Australian tea tree oil, and COVID-19.