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Salila Sakulrak

Salila Sakulrak

+61426063304 | s.sakulrak@unimelb.edu.au

Position:
Research Support Officer
Theme(s):
Viral Infectious Diseases
Unit(s):
The University of Melbourne, Department of Infectious Diseases
Lab Group(s):
Lewin Group

Salila Sakulrak is a Master of Public Health graduate from The University of Melbourne, with a major in global health and a solid specialist background as a nurse practitioner in Thailand. Salilia has hands-on experience in HIV clinical trials, both nationally and internationally, since 2016. Additionally, she served for four years as a committee member contributing to protocol development and implementation in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the world's largest HIV clinical trials network. Currently, Salila is in a supportive role for clinical trials with the Lewin Laboratory team.

  • Research Groups
    • Lewin Group

      The focus of the Lewin group is to understand why HIV infection persists on antiretroviral therapy and to develop new strategies to eliminate latency. The lab also researches factors that drive liver disease in HIV-hepatitis B virus co-infection. The lab is also actively involved in COVID in relation to pathogenesis, the use of primary tissue models, and developing therapeutics using gene editing strategies.


      Lab Team

      Lewin Group

      • Director - The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
      • Deputy Head Lewin Lab | Senior Research Fellow
      • Senior Research Fellow
      • Dr Wei Zhao
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Chris Chiu
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Youry Kim
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Stan Kan
        Research Fellow
      • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      • Clinical Research Liason Officer
      • Dr Judy Chang
        Research Systems Administrator
      • Senior Research Officer
      • Research Coordinator
      • Laboratory Manager
      • Infectious Diseases Physician
      • Research Fellow
      • Research Fellow
      • Carolin Tumpach
        Research Support Officer
      • Rosalyn Cao
        Research Support Officer
      • Danielle Fong
        Research Support Officer
      • Abigail Tan
        Research Support Officer
      • Jared Stern
        PhD Candidate
      • Rachel Pascoe
        PhD Candidate
      • Haoming Liu
        PhD Candidate
      • Kiho Tanaka
        PhD Candidate
      • Rory Shepherd
        PhD Candidate
      • Lauren Wallace
        Honours Student
      • Bridget Fisher
        PhD Candidate
      • Associate Professor Edwina Wright
        Clinical Affiliate
      • Dr James McMahon
        Clinical Affiliate
      • Head, Clinical Virology and HIV Services, Deputy Director Department of Infectious Diseases Austin Health
      • Associate Clinical Director of HIV Cure Studies