Before joining OUCRU Indonesia, Dewi worked at the Laboratory of Red Blood Cell Disorders in the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology to do thalassemia research.
She substantially contributed to several laboratory works, such as the impact assessment of the combination of β-thalassemia and Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis to haematology profile and prenatal diagnosis of alpha and beta-thalassemia.
Joined OUCRU Indonesia to work on mapping glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDd) prevalences and variants in Indonesia and conducting in vitro experiments for G6PDd diagnostic tests.