Wanpen Chaicumpa, D.V.M. (Hons.), Ph.D. (microbiology), is Emeritus Professor, Research Consultant, and Head of the Center of Research Excellence on Therapeutic Proteins and Antibody Engineering at the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, and consultant of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Thammasat University, Thailand. Her research interests are intestinal immunity against enteric infections, vaccine development, immuno- and molecular diagnoses of tropical infections, allergy, immunotherapy, and antibody engineering. She is an executive member of the Thailand Academy of Sciences. She has served as Editor in Chief of the Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology. She served as a consultant to the WHO Southeast Asian Regional Office, India. She has published over 250 publications, owns more than 30 patents/patent applications, and has published three textbooks (Animal Viruses, Immunology for Diagnosis of Diseases, and Practical Immunology for Students of Diploma of Tropical Medicines).