Elizabeth Ashley (scientist)
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Elizabeth Ashley | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School |
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| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | New directions in artemisinin-based combination therapy : chemotherapeutic studies of multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria. (2007) |
Elizabeth Ashley is a British physician who is Director of the Laos-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in Laos. She specialises in infectious diseases and medical microbiology and virology. She is an associate editor for the Malaria Journal and serves on the Council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Ashley grew up in Croydon. She attended a comprehensive school, where she specialised in mathematics, science and French.[1] She became interested in medicine as a teenager, and trained as a physician in London. She completed an intercalated degree in sociology.[1] In 2000, Ashley moved to Mae Sot, to the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit to provide healthcare for people living around the Thai-Myanmar border.[2] She worked under the supervision of Nick White and Francois Nosten.[1] She realised that malaria research was her vocation in 2006.[1] Based on her experiences in these places, Ashley completed a doctorate on chemotherapeutic studies.[3] She worked as a clinician in Paris and London.[2] In Paris she worked for Médecins Sans Frontières.[1] Her current place of work, LOMWRU is in the Mahosot Hospital in Laos.
