Apart from the main committee meeting on Research and Innovation Advisory, Prof. Jong IL KIM, Associate Dean of Seoul National University, Korea attended the side-discussion on cancer research with a team from Siriraj Hospital led by Assoc. Prof. Uraiwan Panich, Chairwoman of Department of Pharmacology, Assoc. Prof. Manop Pithukpakorn, Assoc. Prof. Adisak Wongkajornsilp, Dr. Siwanon Jirawatnotai, and Dr. Somponnat Sampattavanich.
On October 16th, 2018, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital welcomed distinguished delegates from renowned universities, namely, Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, the Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (2004) from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Dr. Bert Sakmann from Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany, Prof. Chan Soo Shin, Dean of Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea, Prof. Gavin Screaton, Head of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, UK, Prof. Sharon Anderson, Dean of the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, USA, and Prof. W.K. Alfred Yung from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA, to attend the Research and Innovation Advisory Committee Meeting.
On May 10, 2018, Professor Thawatchai Akaraviputh, Deputy Dean for International Relations welcomed Professor Kym Francis Faull, Director, Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA to serve as Siriraj Visiting Scholar at the Division of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Research, Department of Research and Development from April 30th – May 11th, 2018.
