Vanny Narita, PhD is Senior Officer at Science and Technology Division, ASEAN Secretariat. She is responsible for ASEAN science diplomacy, managing cooperation in science, technology and innovation cooperation, focusing broadly on developing human resource capacity and promoting networks, centers of excellence and research and development.

As a researcher, graduated from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA in biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology, she holds two patents on Hepatitis B and Dengue recombinant proteins within a national consortium of vaccines and medicine led by WHO-acknowledgement company, PT Bio Farma. She designed the recombinant proteins through bioinformatics analysis and optimalised their expression in microbial expression systems. Concern about the environment, she has been also working on antibiotic resistance in human impacted environment as a visiting researcher to University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the Ambassador for Indonesia of International Society for Microbial Ecology.

• Turyadi, T., Thedja, M. D., Ie, S. I., Narita, V., Nurainy, N., & Muljono, D. H. (2018). Reverse-Transcriptase Characteristics of Hepatitis B Virus Polymerase Gene in Treatment-Naïve Asymptomatic Chronic Hepatitis B Individuals. eJournal Kedokteran Indonesia, 5(3), 90-183.
• Lestari, C. W., Narita, V., Soediro, T. M., & Sjahjurahman, A. (2016). Produksi dan Purifikasi Protein Rekombinan Non-Struktural NS1 Virus Dengue Serotipe 1 Strain Indonesia Pada Pichia Pastoris. Jurnal Biotek Medisiana Indonesia, 5(2), 121-132.
• Tazkia, R. A. K., Narita, V., & Nugroho, A. S. (2015, October). Dengue outbreak prediction for GIS based early warning system. In 2015 International Conference on Science in Information Technology (ICSITech) (pp. 121-125). IEEE.
• Narita, V., Arum, A. L., Isnaeni, S., & Fawzya, N. Y. (2014). Analisis bioinformatika berbasis web untuk eksplorasi enzim kitosanase berdasarkan kemiripan sekuens. Jurnal Al-Azhar Indonesia Seri Sains dan Teknologi, 1(4), 197-203.

• Tempo Magazine 45-Women without Boundaries (2018)
• Young Scientist IAP-UNESCO of World Science Forum (2017)
• ASEAN-US AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow (2016)
• Science and Technology in Society Forum Future Leader (2015)
• World Economic Forum Young Scientist New Champion (2014-2015)