On November 15th, 2019, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, along with executive members and Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) welcomed Research and Innovation Advisory Committee (RIAC)namely, Chan Soo Shin, M.D., Ph.D, from Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Republic of Korea, Sharon Anderson, M.D. from Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, USA, Gavin Screaton, FMedSci, FRCP from University of Oxford, UK, George Baillie, Ph.D. from University of Glasgow, UK, and Joshua Burns, Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Australia,to the 2nd Research and Innovation Advisory Committee meeting for discussion on research strategic planning, research management system, and potential new SiCOREs. This was a valuable event to review the Research progress of each SiCORE program. The insight and recommendations from RIAC members were greatly appreciated and would definitely benefit research transformation at our Faculty. On this occasion, the dinner reception was held at Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital on12th floor, SiMR building,which everyone enjoyed cocktail dinner, fruitful discussion, overlooking a pretty bend of night view of Chao Pharya River.