Dr. Kallaya Sritunyalucksana-Dangtip

Dr. Kallaya Sritunyalucksana-Dangtip is a renowned expert in shrimp health and aquaculture, currently serving as the Principal Researcher and Head of the Aquatic Animal Health Research Team (AQHT) at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) in Thailand. She earned her B.Sc. in Medical Technology from Chiang Mai University, M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Mahidol University, and Ph.D. in both Biotechnology and Comparative Physiology from Mahidol University and Uppsala University, Sweden, respectively. Throughout her career, she has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Newton Prize Chairman’s Award and recognition as one of Stanford University’s world’s top 2% scientists in Fisheries. She also leads the Shrimp Immunology Platform at Mahidol University’s Center of Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Dr. Kallaya is actively involved in international collaborative projects, playing a key role in initiatives like the International Network for Shrimp Health (INSH) and various research partnerships aimed at advancing sustainable aquaculture solutions globally. Her main research interest is to establish a scientific understanding of shrimp-pathogen interaction, a virulence mechanism of shrimp pathogen and shrimp defense response to pathogen, which will be applied to sustainable strategies to prevention and control disease outbreak in the shrimp hatchery and grow-out pond. She along her team are part of the national shrimp genetic improvement program for the black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon, which belongs to BIOTEC/NSTDA to perform the selective breeding program for high growth and disease resistance. Her recent project is focused on exploitation of viral accommodation mechanism to control viral diseases in shrimp by development of shrimp vaccination and improvement of viral tolerance in shrimp breeding stock.

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