Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe

MBBS, MSc, PhD

Lecturer

Email: aak.moe@monash.edu

Research Profile

Profile

Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe trained as a medical doctor with distinctions in physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and medicine in Myanmar (Burma). He next completed his master’s degree in biomedical engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He completed his PhD in neuroscience at Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, in 2016. He trained as a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Melbourne. In 2022, he joined Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences as a lecturer.

Dr Moe is a neuroscientist with expertise and background in neuropharmacology, brain development, vagal neurobiology and neuroimaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Dr Moe is interested in the central nervous system control of behaviour and sensation, respiratory sensory neurobiology, vagus nerve stimulation and its applications, neuropharmacology, dopaminergic and serotonergic systems in behaviour and neuropsychiatric disorders and use of state-of-the-art neuroscience techniques. He is using advanced neuroscience techniques such as optogenetics, 3D tissue clearing and imaging with lightsheet microscopy, functional MRI and magnetoencephalography. His current research areas are mapping of vagal sensory neural pathways and airway innervation, central processing of respiratory sensory information and neural mechanisms of chronic cough with ongoing investigations in both preclinical and clinical studies. He has active collaborations with leading researchers and scientists from University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and Swinburne University.

Dr Moe is passionate about research and teaching of MRI and related imaging modalities and their applications in research and clinical practice.