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Contributors to world health win Thailand's Prince Mahidol Award 2010
BANGKOK, Jan 20 (TNA) - Thailand’s Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage will present the Prince Mahidol Award 2010 to five leading international specialists who have been globally
recognised for their dedicated contributions to research against deadly malaria and chronic diarrhea.
Thani Thongphakdi, Director-General of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Information, and Clinical Professor Doctor Supat Wanitchakarn, Secretary-General to the Prince Mahidol Foundation, have jointly announced that Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will preside over a gracious ceremony to confer the honorary Prince Mahidol Award to the five winners on behalf of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Chakri Throne Hall inside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on January 26.
The five awardees of Thailand's Prince Mahidol Award 2010 were selected from a pool of 72 nominees from 31 countries. They include Professor Doctor Nicholas J. White and Professor Doctor Kevin Marsh, who are both specialises in tropical medicine at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and have jointly won the Prince Mahidol Award 2010 for Medicine from their malaria-related research projects in Southeast Asia and Africa which have saved the life of billions of world population, as well as Honorary Professor Doctor Ananda S. Prasad of Wayne State University, Professor Doctor Kenneth H. Brown of California University and Professor Doctor Robert E. Black of John Hopkins University, all are in the United States, who have shared the Prince Mahidol Award 2010 for Public Health from their research and discovery of the significance of the zinc element for helping build up an effective immunity against chronic diarrhea and contributing to bone, spleen and sexual developments which have secured good health for hundreds of millions of children across the world. (TNA)
recognised for their dedicated contributions to research against deadly malaria and chronic diarrhea.
Thani Thongphakdi, Director-General of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Information, and Clinical Professor Doctor Supat Wanitchakarn, Secretary-General to the Prince Mahidol Foundation, have jointly announced that Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will preside over a gracious ceremony to confer the honorary Prince Mahidol Award to the five winners on behalf of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Chakri Throne Hall inside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on January 26.
The five awardees of Thailand's Prince Mahidol Award 2010 were selected from a pool of 72 nominees from 31 countries. They include Professor Doctor Nicholas J. White and Professor Doctor Kevin Marsh, who are both specialises in tropical medicine at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and have jointly won the Prince Mahidol Award 2010 for Medicine from their malaria-related research projects in Southeast Asia and Africa which have saved the life of billions of world population, as well as Honorary Professor Doctor Ananda S. Prasad of Wayne State University, Professor Doctor Kenneth H. Brown of California University and Professor Doctor Robert E. Black of John Hopkins University, all are in the United States, who have shared the Prince Mahidol Award 2010 for Public Health from their research and discovery of the significance of the zinc element for helping build up an effective immunity against chronic diarrhea and contributing to bone, spleen and sexual developments which have secured good health for hundreds of millions of children across the world. (TNA)
