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Cherry's story: a career launched by first-hand experience and a good mentor
Cherry's story: a career launched by first-hand experience and a good mentor
3 April 2019
How do you go about building all the skills you need at the start of your research career? Cherry Lim from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand, was lucky to find a good mentor who guided her through this journey, but her own ceaseless curiosity and excitement about research were also important.
Cherry’s interest in research began in the final year of her degree when she volunteered at an HIV clinic and research centre in Bangkok.
It opened her eyes to how research can help towards protecting people from infectious diseases and made her determined to forge a career in this field.
Historians from Oxford University are working together with anthropologists, epidemiologists, biologists and clinicians to determine the historical dynamics of malaria and to devise policies that are more effective and durable than many of those to date