Today (26th November 2018) at 13:30 hrs. Clin. Prof. Supat Vanichakarn, Secretary General of Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage; Ms. Busadee Santipitaks, Director-General of the Department of Information and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Prof. Vicharn Panich, Chairman of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Steering Committee; Prof. Apichat Asavamongkolkul, Chairman of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Working Committee; and Prof. Sompop Limpongsanurak, Chairman of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Selection Committee, together issue a press release on the names of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program scholarship recipients for 2018 at the Hall in front of Prince Mahidol Aduldej Room, 4th floor of Siriraj Medical Library, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University.
The names of five scholarship recipients 2018 of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program are as follows:
1. Mr. Kanjapat Temahivong Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
2. Mr. Charupong Saengboonmee Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University
3. Mr. Punyapat Maprapho Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
4. Miss Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
5. Mr. Suangson Supabphol Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
Twenty-one applicants from 9 institutes were nominated for Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program in 2018. Only 5 successful applicants meet the criteria of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program. The Selection Committee selected the scholarship recipients and presented to the Board of Trustee which HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is a President. The final decision had been made on the 2nd November 2018.
Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program has been established on the 20th November 2008 according to the 2nd/2008 consensus of the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation Committee. The program aims to inspire and facilitate Thai youths studied in the health fields to pursue their dedicated life for the benefit of mankind following the footsteps of HRH Prince Mahidol of Songkla.
The steering committee, the working committee, and the selection committee are responsible to select the applicants who meet the criteria of the program, and present their names to the Board of Trustee which HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is a President, for a final decision.
The successful applicants will obtain a scholarship for research study, professional training or community development abroad or in the country with full support for 12-month overseas placement. The period of overseas placement of the scholarship recipients will be considered as a part of their three-year working period for the government of Thailand.
The steering committee, the working committee, and the selection committee are responsible to select the applicants who meet the criteria of the program, and present their names to the Board of Trustee which HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is a President, for a final decision.
The successful applicants will obtain a scholarship for research study, professional training or community development abroad or in the country with full support for 12-month overseas placement. The period of overseas placement of the scholarship recipients will be considered as a part of their three-year working period for the government of Thailand.
Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2018
Mr. Kanjapat Temahivong
Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
Mr. Kanjapat Temahivong is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. He is interested in research topics about the development of an automated glaucoma screening device using a virtual reality headset and machine learning techniques for analyzing the database of glaucoma patients, which are becoming a foundation of automated eye disease screening system in the future. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness; it has increasingly become a serious public health issue in Thailand over the past several years due to the aging population. Because patients with glaucoma are usually presented at the hospital when the disease is at an advanced stage, the diagnosis is likely to be given too late to prevent the patients from blindness. In addition, medical devices for glaucoma screening are still very expensive. Developing more attainable glaucoma screening devices would significantly help reduce the number of blindness patients from glaucoma. He is intending to focus his study on visual science applied to advance glaucoma screening devices, health database system of eye patients and glaucoma screening protocol in the United States of America.
Mr. Kanjapat Temahivong has received honors and awards as followings:
- 2018 1st place, Global University Medical Challenge at IMU, Malaysia
- 2017 Silver medal, International Medical Challenge at Chiang Mai University, system administrator of CUMEDWORD, a medical record website for medical students, leader in medical student subgroup for subject departments, administrator of the medical team providing public health check-up in Nakhon Pathom
- 2016 Highest score, the midterm examination (MEQ), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, peer tutor for the National License Examination
- 2015 Moderator of rational drug use campaign, International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations, and receive 1st place, 19th Thai Music Band contest in Art and Cultural Day, participated as the leading singer
- 2014 Highest score, cardiovascular system examination among 2nd-year students, Department of Anatomy, be a moderator of the royal commemoration of donated bodies for medical study at Wat That Thong, be a peer tutor for a final examination at Pakuranga College, New Zealand
- 2013 Honorable Mention, 14th Asian Physics Olympiad, Indonesia
Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2018
Mr. Charupong Saengboonmee
Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University
Mr. Charupong Saengboonmee is a sixth year medical student at Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. He is interested in the field of molecular oncology focusing on the association of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). The research topic of his interest is roles of cyclins and cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) in diabetogenic glucose condition as a potential target for cholangiocarcinoma treatment. His inspiration is from the world highest incidence of CCA in the Northeast of Thailand. Moreover, among these CCA patients, 30-50% of them had impaired glucose metabolism or DM. The in vitro study in CCA cell lines strongly suggested that high glucose level promoted the aggressive phenotypes of CCA cells, namely proliferation and metastatic potential via the up-regulation of several proteins. One of the key proteins in CCA progression under high glucose condition is cyclins and their CDKs partner. The previous studies also suggested that this protein group possesses variable roles and have a high potential to be a target for cancer treatment. Thus, he intend to study the roles of these proteins in CCA under DM condition in order to develop the target of CCA treatment, especially for those CCA patients who also suffer from DM.
Mr. Charupong Saengboonmee has received many honors and awards as followings:
- 2018 Recipient Scholar of Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, as a visiting student at National Cheng Kung University, School of Medicine, Taiwan; be first runner up award for oral presentation, medical student’s research, entitled “Proportion of caregivers who had stress and stress-associated factors: A descriptive study in caregivers of chemotherapeutic-treated cancer patient in Srinagarind Hospital”, The annual meeting of Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University
- 2017 Be a Chairman, Registration and Evaluation Section, Thai medical student sport competition “The 29th Syringe Games” at Khon Kaen University; An Editor-in-Chief, The pocket summary “OB-GYN for Medical Students”, Medical Students Association, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University
- 2016 Recipient Scholar of Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, as a visiting student at Seidman Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; receive outstanding award, Doctoral dissertation in health science, Graduate School, Khon Kaen University, entitled “Effect of diabetogenic glucose condition on aggressiveness of cholangiocarcinoma”
- 2015 Be a Research Scholar at Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- 2013 Be a President, Medical Student Research and Research Ethic Camp, The Society of Medical Student of Thailand under the royal patronage of Prof. Dr. HRH Princess Chulabhorn, be a Thai young researcher delegate, The 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting (Chemistry), Lindau, Germany
Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2018
Mr. Punyapat Maprapho
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
Mr. Punyapat Maprapho is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. He is interested in the field of metabolomics, a novel technology to study the chemical process, and metabolomics-nephrolithiasis relationship in the diagnosis and predicted the recurrent of nephrolithiasis in the Thai population. The nephrolithiasis is the common etiology of end-stage renal disease ongoing renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Thailand. With an inconclusive understanding of the pathogenesis of nephrolithiasis, early diagnosis, prediction, and prevention of stone formation are still challenging. This project aims to make an expansion of the knowledge in the field of nephrolithiasis and its complications and may specific on common etiology of Thai people, Furthermore, this expanding knowledge on metabolomics on nephrolithiasis will lead to further studies and improves diagnosis laboratory feature relationship, to establish standard clinical practice guidelines of nephrolithiasis and result in better patient quality of life. Additionally, he determines to study big data analysis and the transitional medicine of metabolomics in nephrolithiasis and other diseases.
Mr. Punyapat Maprapho has received many honors and awards as followings:
- 2018 Winner awards in impromptu speech contest “TRUST, for all humanity and mankind” organized by the Society of Medical students of Thailand (SMST) together with the Thai Medical Council, received a plaque as a medical student who makes benefit to the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital and the scholarship. “Dr. Worapol – Warocha Soktiyanurak” On The Wai Kura day 2018
- 2017 The president of Siriraj Medical Student Union (SMSU); be awarded “Innovative teaching award” in Mahidol quality fair 2017 in the project entitled “Direct experience in early clinical exposure of preclinical students conducted by senior clinical students’ and non-participating students”; poster presentation: “Changes of VARK learning style of preclinical students from the 1st to 2nd preclinical years” and; Oral presentation: “Comparisons of attitudes and behavior toward study between students participating a project entitled “Direct experience in the early clinical exposure of preclinical students conducted by senior clinical students’ and non-participating students” ANZAPHE conference 2017 Adelaide, Australia.
- 2016 Winner awards as a group representative for the Faculty of Medical Students, Siriraj Hospital in short film competition “Thailand Medical Student Code of Conduct” on the Occasion of the 48th Anniversary of the Medical Council; be a volunteer and community service at Supanburi Province Mahidol Ruam-Jai Camp
- 2015 President of the congregation of Buddhadham Siriraj (Student)
- 2014 Deputy class president of Medical Student, MD Class of 2014; Head of the religious ceremony, the donated cadavers’ cremation event.
- 2013 President of Cheer, Faculty of Medicine, Freshy games
Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2018
Miss Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant
Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Miss Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. She is interested in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) screening by “voice analysis”. As an increasing in number of DM patients, screening and early diagnosis would be benefit for the early treatment plan and also prevent microvascular and macrovascular sequelae. While the blood test remains the mainstay of DM screening and diagnostic tool, obtaining the blood from venipuncture is considered to be invasive and require skilled health care personnel. Therefore, redefining the non-invasive screening tool to detect DM would be preferential. There were some reports regarding the effect of alteration of blood glucose level would affect changes in elastic properties of phonatory apparatus. Thus, human voice analysis may have a potential to detect the phonatory change in diabetic patients. Her study design is to develop an artificial intelligence via deep learning program to analyze the human voice change as a screening tool for DM. Moreover, she determines to develop a national mobile application for voice analysis as diabetic screening tool. This application would allow early diabetic patients to do screening at home with greater compliance and being cost-effectiveness.
Miss Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant has received many honors and awards as followings:
- 2018 Be a clinical exchange student, Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington University, USA and co-authored of an article entitled “Frequent premature atrial complexes as a predictor of atrial fibrillation: Systematic review and meta-analysis” Journal of Electrocardiology 2018, 51: 760
- 2017 Be a vice president of Ramathibodi medical student club, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi, Mahidol University, a community health volunteer, Si La Ko primary care unit, Chakkarat District, Nakhon Ratchasima
- 2016 Be the president of standing committee on research exchange program, International Relation Club, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi, Mahidol University
- 2015 Receive the first runner up award for presentation fieldwork experience, Community Medicine clerkship, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi, Mahidol University Be a national associated officer, medical education for project affair of standing committee on medical education, the International Federation of Medical Students Associations Thailand
- 2013 Be the president of first- year medical class, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi, Mahidol University
- 2011 Be a Thai representative to compete in the World Robocup 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2010 Be a provincial representative for Computer Programming Competition, the sixth Thailand Olympiad in Information, Chiang Mai University
- 2009 Receive Sliver Prize of Mathematic Competition, secondary Educational Office of the Basic Education Commission
Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2018
Mr. Suangson Supabphol
Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
Mr. Suangson Supabphol, a sixth-year medical student from Chulalongkorn University, is interested in the field of cancer immunotherapy, especially personalized tumor vaccine for colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is known as one of the most common malignancies in Thailand and worldwide. However, the survival rate of patients with metastasis remains unsatisfactory in spite of the advance of pharmacological research. The reason is that cancerous cells possess genetic variation. Hence, curing cancers has to aim at eradicating tumor heterogeneity. Personalized vaccine starts with potentiating our immune system. As a result, robust immune system will eventually destroy all heterogenous tumor cells automatically. Mr. Suangson intends to study all the workflow of tumor vaccine production including neoantigen prediction, neoantigen identification and vaccine manufacturing.
Mr. Suangson Supabphol has received several honors and awards such as:
Education
- “Pink Diamond Project” student 2015 – 2018
- Tutor of “Peer tutoring project” for medical students who do not pass step 1 national license examination 2016 – 2017
Research
- Co-researcher in “Kaempferia parviflora Phytoextract to prolong cellular life span”, received a gold medal in “46th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva”
Volunteers
- First aid team “The Royal Cremation Ceremony of His Majesty the Late King” 2017
- First aid team in 72nd Chulalongkorn-Thammasat Traditional Football 2018
- Vice president of Chulalongkorn table tennis club 2015
- Treasurer of Chulalongkorn table tennis club 2016
Sports
- Chulalongkorn table tennis player who participated in 42nd – 45th Thailand University Games
- Medicine Chulalongkorn table tennis player who joined in Syringe Games 2013 – 2015 and 2017, received a total of 5 gold medals
- Medicine Chulalongkorn football team captain and player who participated in Syringe Games
- 2014 – 2015 and 2017, received a total of 2 bronze medals