Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri

Biography

Dr. Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri was born in Thailand and won a prestigious Royal Thai Government Scholarship to pursue her education in USA. She finished her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (honors with distinctions, departmental valedictorian) from Columbia University, New York, in 1999. Upon obtaining her M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004, Dr. Karoonuthaisiri has taken a research position at BIOTEC (Thailand). Currently, she is a head of Microarray Laboratory where her research team employs microarray technology to study black tiger shrimp, an economically important export for Thailand, and develop antibody arrays for diagnostics. She is also a guest lecturer for various universities in Thailand. She was recently awarded “2009 For Women in Science” fellowship from UNESCO-L’Oreal Thailand. Her antibody array for foodborne pathogen detection won the 2010 Invention Award from the National Research Council of Thailand. She was selected as 1 of 9 “Working Women of the Year 2009” by “Phuying” Magazine and 1 of 50 “Women Who Will Make a Change” by “A Day” Magazine.