Eakachai Prompetchara received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Chulalongkorn University in 2014. He has a comprehensive knowledge in Immunology, Virology and Molecular Biology. He has been working on dengue DNA vaccine since he was a Ph.D. student and continuing such research during his postdoctoral fellowship under a supervision of Professor Kiat Ruxrungtham.
Prompetchara is currently a lecturer at Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University. His current research focuses on the development of viral vaccine by using various platforms including nucleic acid-based vaccine (DNA, mRNA), virus-like particles and recombinant proteins.
He also works on the establishment of humanized mice model for vaccine immunogenicity testing and pathogenesis in collaboration with Professor Bradford K. Berges, Brigham Young University, UT, USA.