The result of the Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program scholarship recipients 2019

Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program, Prince Mahidol Award Foundation
under Royal Patronage In collaboration with Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
and Ministry of Foreign Affairs organize the press conference on

The result of the Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program
scholarship recipients 2019

 

Today (28th November 2019) 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. Sompop  Limpongsanurak, Chairman of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Selection Committee, and Prof. Apichat Asavamongkolkul, Chairman of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Working Committee; together issue a press release on the names of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program scholarship recipients for 2019 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 2019 of Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program are as follows:

 

  1. Ms. Kanyakorn Riewruja Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
  2. Mr. Thodsawit Tiyarattanachai Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
  3. Ms. Patteera Vongtangton Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
  4. Ms. Pornlada Likasitwatanakul Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
  5. Ms. Sasitorn Yenyuwadee Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Thirteen applicants from 7 institutes were nominated for Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program in 2019. 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 1st November 2019.

 

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 with full support for 12-month overseas placement or in the country. 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.

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Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2019

Ms. Kanyakorn  Riewruja

Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University

Ms. Kanyakorn  Riewruja is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Her research interest is focused on the therapeutic potential of platelet-rich plasma derived exosome for the treatment of osteoarthritis. As the global population is growing towards an ageing society, the increasing number of elderly people and the longevity of people are big challenges for degenerative diseases, such as osteoarthritis. Knee osteoarthritis is a leading cause of physical limitation, resulting in poor quality of life in many aspects of patients. As the disease inevitably progresses, total knee arthroplasty remains the ultimate option for end-stage patients. Current non-surgical treatments for knee osteoarthritis patients are mostly symptomatic treatments, thus no effective cure or treatment to delay disease progression exists. In the recent years, there is increasing evidence suggesting that exosomes secreted from mesenchymal stem cells and blood products are carriers that function cell-to-cell communication, especially in tissue repair and regenerative function. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms and role of exosomes in chondrocyte regeneration will provide the basis and a better possibility of future therapeutic development of osteoarthritis.

 

Ms. Kanyakorn  Riewruja has received honors and awards as followings:

2019         Study on chondrocyte isolation from articular cartilage and role of platelet rich plasma on growth and differentiation of chondrocytes

2018         Student representative for Ananda-Mahidol Day 2018; Academic head of “Basic CPR Training Workshop for People” workshop and preparation of knowledge sheets for participants;  student representative responsible for “Medical student interhospital conference (Chula-Siriraj-Rama): Practical points for EXTERN & INTERN”; moderator,
“Tonkla camp”; student representative for student engagement team in Doctor of Medicine Program Seminar and short communication presentation of “Evaluation of the student-engaged study skills course for facilitating year 2 medical students through their transitional period: A questionnaire-based study” in Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, APMEC 2019

2017         Peer tutor for the National License Examination

2016         Academic head of “BOOTCAMP 2016” IFMSA-Thailand and attendance of activity of orthopedic-based in “Med Chula Expo 2016”

2015         Student representative for the procession of the Royal Commemoration of donated bodies for medical studies and moderator in gross anatomy session, “MDCU open house 2015”

2014         Hospice volunteer for palliative patients at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
and group moderator in the premed camp

2013         Silver Medal in Life science for representing a research entitled “Comparative anti-oxidant capacity of rice flour for the product development” in the second Asia Pacific Conference of Young Scientists, Palembang, Indonesia and student committee in Mahidol Wittayanusorn School

 

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Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2019

Mr. Thodsawit  Tiyarattanachai

Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University

 

Mr. Thodsawit  Tiyarattanachai is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. He is interested in developing Artificial intelligence (AI) system for liver cancer surveillance by ultrasonography. Liver cancer is the second most common cancer in Thailand. Patients with liver cancer often have poor outcomes because it does not produce symptoms in early stages. Fifty percent of the patients are first diagnosed when liver cancer has progressed to late stages, of which curative treatment options are limited. Surveillance by ultrasonography was proved to be effective in reducing deaths from liver cancer. Mr. Thodsawit intends to develop AI system for detection and characterization of focal liver lesions in ultrasonography. The AI system will improve liver cancer surveillance rates, increase accuracy in detection and characterization of liver lesions, aid non-experts in interpreting ultrasonographic studies, and save national budget spent on care of patients with liver cancer.

 

Mr. Thodsawit  Tiyarattanachai has received honors and awards as followings:

2019         Oral presentation, “Computer-assisted ultrasonographic image analysis for differentiation between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and benign focal liver lesions”, Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, California, US and 3rd Place Best Oral Presentation Award, “Artificial intelligence system for localization and diagnosis of focal liver lesions in abdominal ultrasonography images”, Korea University International Medical Student Research Conference, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2018         Award for student who achieved highest Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPAX)
and organizing committee of Tonkla Camp: A study skills course for second-year
medical students

2017         Highest score in Internal Medicine rotation, Obstetrics & Gynecology rotation
and Theoretical Surgery examination and Lecturer, Cardiovascular System II,
Peer-Tutoring Program

2016         Highest score in Examination for Doctor of Medicine degree step 1 (Basic Medical Sciences); Winner of Chiang Mai University International Medical Challenge:
Basic to Clinical Anatomy; be selected to join in “Pink Diamond Program”: A program
for enhancing medical students’ biomedical research and teaching skills
and organizing committee of Ananda Mahidol Medical Sciences Competition

2015         Highest score in Physiology and Anatomy course and Gold medal,
Chiang Mai University International Medical Challenge: Basic to Clinical Biochemistry

2014         Highest score in Fundamentals of Cell and Molecular Biology course

2012         Bronze Medal, the 11th Thailand Physics Olympiad

2010         2nd Runner-up, World Robot Olympiad, Manila, Philippines

 

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Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2019

Ms. Patteera  Vongtangton

Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University

 

Ms. Patteera  Vongtangton is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. She is interested in research topic about early detection of suicidal risk by analyzing Facebook data using an artificial intelligence. Suicide is a big problem in Thailand and also one of the major leading causes of death worldwide. However, some studies show that a number of people who completed suicides have never visited a health professional of any kind and although some have visited, the physician cannot detect the risk in time. Many studies suggested that numerous mental problems including suicide are strongly correlated with certain behaviors and data on Facebook. Accordingly, developing a machine using artificial intelligence to analyze suicidal risk from data on Facebook, which is very commonly and frequently used in people’s daily life nowadays, would significantly help access the bigger size of people at risk and also detect the risk much earlier, in order to provide proper intervention in time, and finally to reduce the suicide rate in Thailand.

 

Ms. Patteera  Vongtangton has received honors and awards as followings:

2019         Representative of Ramathibodi medical students delivering a speech in a topic “Happiness of medical students” in MedTalk session of the Rama Insight project

2018         President of student association, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Representative of Ramathibodi medical students for wreath laying on Mahidol day
at Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Well-behaved medical student award
for two consecutive years

2017         President of community medicine project, “Let’s change our behaviors”,
at NongKhae District, Saraburi

2016         Third prize trophy, Presentation of interesting topic from fieldwork in community medicine subject; President of community medicine project at Ubonrat District, Khonkaen and Vice-President of backstage team in the 9th Ramadrama stage play, “Songpob”

2015         President of 2nd year medical student, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital

2014         Highest score on an entrance examination to Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital; president of academic team of the 1st year medical student, Faculty of Medicine

Ramathibodi Hospital and president of cheerleading team, Mahidol Freshy Game 2014

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Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2019

Ms. Pornlada  Likasitwatanakul

Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

 

 

Ms. Pornlada  Likasitwatanakul is a sixth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. She is interested in research topic regarding the cancer heterogeneity and cancer evolution by using single-cell RNA sequencing as a tool. This will enhance an understanding of drug resistance mechanism, which is a major challenge in current medical oncology. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Thailand, but currently there have yet been efficient treatments to overcome this disease, especially in a group of high-resistant tumors, such as glioblastoma. One explanation is that cancer in each patient is a combination of different states of cells. This heterogeneity translates into an ability to escape and resist from therapies because only parts of the cancer are susceptible to certain drugs. Single-cell RNA sequencing can elucidate the heterogeneity and help assign potential treatments that best fit with patient’s tumor characteristics. Miss Pornlada focuses her study on single-cell glioblastoma heterogeneity in RNA level and their evolution in response to a standard treatment regimen.

 

Ms. Pornlada  Likasitwatanakul has received honors and awards as followings:

2019         Head of research and development, Traditional Welcome Ceremony
and Academic columnist, SISO magazine

2018         Vice president of administration, Siriraj Medical Student Union;
Fund raising activity for Mahidol Day; Leading mentor in 7th SMST Research Camp; Publication “Cyclin D1 depletion interferes with cancer oxidative balance
and sensitizes cancer cells to senescence” in Journal of Cell Science

2017         Overall high score; Volunteer in free medical services and Clinical experiences
at Department of Hematology-Oncology, National University Hospital, Singapore

2016         Third-year president; organizing committee of “Ajarn Yai” cremation ceremony
and Best in cardiovascular system, hematology and reproductive system

2015         First runner-up; Inter-medical School Physiology Quiz, Indonesia and Best in physiology

2014         Vice-president of academic affairs, first-year student committee

2013         Gold medal, 24th International Biology Olympiad

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Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Scholar 2019

Ms. Sasitorn  Yenyuwadee

Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Ms. Sasitorn  Yenyuwadee is a sixth-year medical student of Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital. The subject of the research
is early detection and monitoring of cancer especially in Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) from blood samples. The main goal is to develop a non-invasive technique that would provide a better chance to fight CCA in high risk groups. Because CCA is one of the leading causes of death for Thai people and the diagnosis and monitoring this disease are very hard to perform. The project will be heavily focused on studying hybrid cells, the product of macrophage-cancer cell fusion, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA.

 

Ms. Sasitorn Yenyuwadee has received honors and awards as followings:

2019         Award for Charity volunteer work from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital and representative for clinical exchange program in United States of America.

2018         President of Mahidol flag charity project and head of Siriraj flag volunteer group.

2017         Research member team of Identification of Potential Acquired Drug Resistance Mechanisms to CDK4/6 Inhibition in Cholangiocarcinoma and committee of volunteer camp project in Ang-Thong province

2016         Head of academic (laboratory section); committee of Siriraj International Medical Microbiology and Parasitology and Immunology Competition (SIMPIC 2016)

2013         Participant in International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO) and representative for oral presentation “Amino Acid Substitutions at Positions Arg-97,
Glu-114 and Arg-301 in Bacillus sphaericus BinA Toxin” in the 10th Japan Super Science Fair 2012 (JSSF 2012)

2012         Bronze medal of the 9th Thailand biology Olympiad competition, Ubonratchathani University