Parunya Chaiyawat, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Center of Multidisciplinary Technology for Advanced Medicine (CMUTEAM), Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. She has expertise in cancer biology, focusing on tumor heterogeneity and tumor evolution. Her research aims at elucidating the clinical and biological role of cancer in therapeutic resistance and metastasis through liquid biopsies, multiomics approaches, and single-cell level analysis.