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Moritoshi Iwagami

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Moritoshi Iwagami is a chief at Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan. He received his academic degrees from the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan (Master of Agriculture, 2000) and the Graduate School, Kochi Medical School, Japan (Ph.D., 2004). He conducted a molecular phylogenetic study on helminths, such as Paragonimus and Schistosoma. Following this, he has conducted a molecular epidemiology of malaria, mainly drug resistance and asymptomatic Plasmodium infections in Asia at Department of Appropriate Technology Development and Transfer, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan (IMCJ), Japan (2004-2010) and Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, NCGM (2010-present). He is also a member of Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR (2014-present).