Associate Professor Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon chaired the special event “The Research Market: (A Tropmed Research Showcase)” on Monday 12th March 2018, at Maegraith Conference Room, 8th Floor, The 60th Anniversary of His Majesty the King’s Accession to the Throne Building. This special event was organized by Office of Research Services (ORS). The objectives of this event were to encourage the faculty members, researchers from each departments, Researcher from International Units within faculty, research centers and research partners to get to know each other, and to have the opportunity to showcase their outstanding research, and innovative products, and to get a chance to foster new collaboration. The event was successfully held, there were over 400 participants attending Tropmed Research Market. There were booth displays by 11 FTM Departments: Medical Entomology, Protozoology, Tropical Hygiene, Tropical Pathology, Molecular Tropical Medicine and Genetics, Clinical Tropical Medicine, Helminthology, Microbiology and Immunology, Social and Environmental Medicine, Tropical Nutrition and Food Science and Tropical Pediatrics. Booth displays by 6 International collaborators:
- Mahidol-Osaka Center for Infectious Diseases (MOCID)
- Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
- Malaria Consortium (MC)
- Silom Community Clinic (Silom)
- Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN)
- Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network (SEAMEO)
8 center of excellence as followings:
- Biomedical and Public Health Informatics (BIOPHICS)
- Center of Excellence for Antibody Research (CEAR)
- Mahidol Vivax Research Unit (MVRU)
- Vaccine Trial centre (VTC)
- Clinical Malaria Research Unit (CMRU)
- Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (GEM)
- Tropical Medicine Diagnostic Reference Laboratory (TMDR)
- Drug Research Unit for Malaria (DRUM)
This special event was also sponsored by The Thailand Research Fund. This special event was also sponsored by the Thailand Research Fund together with international leading companies in medical research fields which are IDI Thailand Co.Ltd., Biomedia Thailand Co.Ltd., Unitech Science Co., Ltd., QIAGEN Thailand Ltd., Bang Trading 1992 Co., Ltd., Esco Lifescience (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Bio-Rad Laboratories Ltd., Chemical Express Co.,Ltd., GenePlus Co., Ltd. and P.Intertrade Equipment Co.Ltd. There activities were so uniquie, a lot of fun, and there were games and also Jackpot Luck draw. The vibe of Research market was wonderful, fun and exciting which is quite different from other ordinary research showcases
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