The SiCORE-M Annual Seminar in 2020

During December 5th–6th, 2020, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital preside over the annual seminar along with Prof. Dr. Prasert Auewarakul,
Prof. Dr. Vicharn Panich, Dr. Somsak Chunharas and Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE–M). Our SiCORE-M Annual Seminar this year take place at The Buffalo Amphawa, Sumutsongkram province, showcases the recent progress and achievements. In addition, the prospective strategic planning, future operational structure and plan for SiCORE-M unit have been discussed.

SiCORE-Dengue reported the updated scientific progress to the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) through the 2nd teleconference in 2020

On November 11th, 2020, Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager of Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit (SiCORE-M), and SiCORE-M team along with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Panisadee Avirutnan, Director of SiCORE-Dengue enthusiastically scheduled the 2nd teleconference on November 11th, 2020 with their SAB members, Sir Andrew J. McMichael, FRS, FMedSci, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford and Xiao-Ning Xu, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Imperial College London.

In this regard, the valuable insights and thoughtful recommendations on scientific contents from SAB will undoubtedly prove highly beneficial to our SiCORE-Dengue. The research team and SiCORE–M would like to express our sincere appreciation to SAB members for their continuing support and we are very much looking forward to the 3rd meeting.

SiCORE-Dengue was recommended the public engagement from the field expert through the teleconference.

On November 10th, 2020, Prof. Dr. Prasert Auewarakul, Deputy dean for research leads the team including Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) team led by Assoc. Prof.Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager, along with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Panisadee Avirutnan, Director of SiCORE-Dengue held the 1st teleconference with the field expert in Public Engagement, namely Dr. Stephen S. Whitehead, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Senior Associate Scientist, Laboratory of Infectious, Disease NIAID, National Institute of Health (NIH), and Prof. Anna P. Durbin, M.D, Professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

We do hope that this meeting will be a good starting point and an ideal opportunity for our research team to learn from experiences and exchange ideas with the field expert towards public engagement activities. It will definitely enable our team to comprehensively adapt the given guidance during the meeting to our Dengue CHIM project.

SiCORE-PM&SP presented the updated scientific progress to the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) through the 2nd teleconference in 2020

On November 4th, 2020, Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager of Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit (SiCORE–M), Assist. Prof. Dr. Woraphat Ratta–apha, Deputy Manager and SiCORE–M team along with Lecturer Dr. Somponnat Sampattavanich, Director of SiCORE–PM&SP held the 2nd teleconference with their SAB members, Prof. Christopher L. Corless M.D., Ph.D. from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Prof. Andrew Futreal, Ph.D. from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This meeting aim for the SiCORE–PM&SP to present the progress of their on–going projects as well as the interactive discussion with SAB members.

In this regard, SiCORE–PM&SP and SiCORE–M team would like to express our sincere appreciation to SAB members for their continuing support, valuable time and advice on scientific content. We are very much looking forward to the 3rd meeting.

Meeting with Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (iNT), Mahidol University.

On November 4th, 2020, Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) team led by Assoc. Prof.Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager and team, Mrs.Sarinya Ngamtipvatana Head officer of Research Department, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj hospital, visited Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, Mahidol University.

In this regard, all the attendees received a warm welcome from Prof. Dr. Pattarachai Kiratisin, Director of Institute for Technology and Innovation Management.

On this occasion, it was an honor and a pleasure to learn about innovation and technology management from iNT.

The 1st Teleconference with Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members for SiCORE-Cardiovascular Disease.

On November 3rd, 2020, Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) team led by Assoc. Prof.Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager, Lecturer Dr. Primana Punnakitikashem and SiCORE-M team, along with Prof. Rungroj Krittayaphong, Director of SiCORE-Cardiovascular Disease held the 1st teleconference with their SAB members, namely Prof. Gemma Figtree from The University of Sydney and Associate Professor Jin Joo Park from Seoul National University.

On this occasion, we do hope these first teleconference would be a good starting point of the introduction for getting to know each other including create opportunities for collaboration in the future. All insight and recommendations from the SAB members will certainly guide the research directions and scientific contents to become internationally excellence in research and also to be comprehensively adapt as a guideline for clinical practice.

 

Our meeting with Research Administration Division and Human Resource Division, Mahidol University.

On October 19th, 2020, Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) team led by Assoc. Prof.Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager and team, Mrs.Sarinya Ngamtipvatana Head of from Research Department along with 2 representatives from the Human Resources Department visited the Research Administration Division and Human Resource Division, Mahidol University.
On this occasion, all the attendees were honored by Prof. Dr.Vachira Kochakarn, Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs to welcome and provide information during the meeting about the supporting guideline for research personnel from the Mahidol university. As always, it was an honor and a pleasure to learn from Research Administration Division and Human Resource Division. Lastly, we would like to express our profound gratitude to them for having offered us this great opportunity for discussion as well as the warm welcome and useful advice given to us.

SiCORE-Allergy reported the updated scientific progress to the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) through the 2nd and 3rd teleconference in 2020

Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager of Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit (SiCORE-M), Assoc. Prof. Oranee Sanmaneechai, Deputy Manager and SiCORE-M team along with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pongsakorn Tantilipikorn, Director of SiCORE Allergy scheduled the 2nd and 3rd teleconference on September 7th, 2020 and October 14th, 2020 respectively.

This program brought an opportunity for the SiCORE-Allergy to present the progress of their on-going projects as well as the interactive discussion with SAB members namely, Prof. Rudolf Valenta from Medical University of Vienna, Prof. Giorgio Walter Canonica from Humanitas University and Prof. Stephen R. Durham from Imperial College London.

In this regard, the valuable advice and recommendations provided throughout the teleconference by this group of prominent researchers will undoubtedly prove highly beneficial to our SiCORE in terms of guidance on research directions and insight on scientific content. On this occasion, our SiCORE-Allergy and SiCORE-M team are certainly most grateful for the continuing support and kind contribution from SAB.

2nd teleconference

 

3rd teleconference

Executive members and SiCORE-M from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital visited MU Bio Innovation Center

On October 9th, 2020, Prof. Dr.Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Prof. Dr.Prasert Auewarakul , Deputy Dean for Research along with Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) led by Assoc.Prof.Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager, his team and Researchers from Siriraj Hospital visited the MU Bio-Innovation at Mahidol University. The warm and hospitable reception from Prof. Dr.Vachira Kochakarn, Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs or Director of the MU Bio-Innovation, Mahidol University and MU Bio-Innovation staffs was extended to the delegates from Siriraj.
On this occasion, all the members of our group found visiting program greatly beneficial and it brought an opportunity to discuss about potential for future collaboration with MU Bio-Innovation. This would be an initial step to apply MU Bio-Innovation facility to generate the sustainable research at our Faculty.

Siriraj’s executives along with SiCORE-M visited Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI)

On September 30th, 2020, Prof. Dr.Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, along with Prof. Dr.Prasert Auewarakul , Deputy Dean for Research and Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) led by Assoc.Prof.Sith Sathornsumetee, Manager visited the Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI). A very warm welcome was given by Assoc. Prof. Dr.Patamawadee Pochanukul Acting President of TSRI ,Prof. Suthiporn Jitmitraparb, Former President, TSRI’s Administrative Members and staffs.

In the meeting, we had an honor to meet Dr. Nopporn Cheanklin (Executive Director, Health Systems Research Institute: HSRI) and Prof.Dr. Sansanee Chaiyarot (Health and Medical Subcommittee, Program Management Unit – Competitiveness: PMUC), two representatives of Program Management Unit (PMU). This meeting brought us an opportunity to provide brief introduction of our SiCORE-M unit and discussion on the possibilities of any potential future cooperation with authorities under Science Research and Innovation Systems.

On this occasion, Prof. Dr.Prasit Watanapa revealed that Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital have been working on the research transformation process. SiCORE-M Unit was founded in November 2017 as a management initiative to (1) generate a cooperative ecosystem and appropriate research management, (2) increase tangible research outputs, (3) building research network and strengthening research capacity and (4) evolving the Faculty’s research administration and management. Not only responding to University’s or Faculty’s research policies but we also hope that this working approach would allow us to be associated with the new Science Research and Innovation Systems to effectively respond to Social and National policies.

During the meeting, Assoc. Prof. Dr.Patamawadee described about the restructuration of the National Science Research and Innovation Systems. As a result, the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) that had been originally designated to support the research fund for each project, they have become TSRI instead. TSRI are in charge of strategic planning, allocation of research fund and other responsibilities that are work-related or being assigned. One of the significant objectives is to raise Thailand investment in research fund to 2% of GDP within 2027. Recently, our knowledge management team (KMT Think tank) has been established to perform evidence based research on the guideline to TSRI for research funding allocation as well as the prioritization based on research outcomes and impact at national level, more importantly the solution for the problem of our country need to be addressed. In the medical dimension, the KMT Think tank team had created a project study called ” the guidelines for research product prioritization of the advanced therapy medicinal product” in order to set the priority of research theme.

Therefore, the potential for medical development should be aligned with the National Strategy and the “BCG Model” policy, which includes economic development in terms of Bioeconomy, Circular Economy and Green Economy simultaneously. In addition, research budget allocation (in percentage/proportion) should be considered and used for operation plan setting which is for research medical technology development and public health. The purpose is to attain outcomes and impact in accordance with the TSRI’s scheme and Assoc. Prof. Dr.Pongsakorn Tantilipikorn is designated to be one of the CMT Medical committee.

On the final note, SiCORE – M are enthusiastic to cooperate with the units under Science Research and Innovation Systems through the two mechanisms for funding allocation as following;

1.) Fundamental Fund, which will be directly allocated to the university

2.) Strategic Fund that will be distributed to other PMU. The supporting PMU for Medical consist of Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI), Program Management Unit – Competitiveness (PMUC) and Program Management Unit – Brain Power (PMUB).