Prince Mahidol Award

The Prince Mahidol Award ( Thai: พระราชทาน รางวัล สมเด็จ เจ้าฟ้า มหิดล, Prince Mahidol Award) is an annual award from the Thai royalty award for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health globally.

Prince Mahidol Award Foundation

King Rama IX. Bhumibol Adulyadej founded the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation on 1 January 1992 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his father, Prince Mahidol Birthday, initially under the name " Mahidol Award Foundation " since July 28, 1997 " Prince Mahidol award Foundation ". In addition to the actual award of funds also promotes the memory of Prince Mahidol, who had made one of the first members of the royal family, the public health of the country to his task.

Currently, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Foundation Chairman of the Committee.

Prince Mahidol Award

The prize is awarded annually in two categories of international personalities and institutions:

  • For outstanding advances in medicine
  • For their active promotion of public health.

Award winners

  • 2013 Anthony Fauci ( National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ), David D. Ho (Rockefeller University), Jim Yong Kim (World Bank) and Peter Piot (UNAIDS ), all contributions to AIDS treatment
  • 2012 Uche Veronica Amazigo (African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, APOC ), Michael David Rawlins ( National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, NICE)
  • 2011 Aaron T. Beck ( University of Pennsylvania, cognitive behavioral therapy for depression ), Ruth F. Bishop ( Royal Children's Hospital, diarrhea rotavirus ), David T. Wong (fluoxetine, the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor ( SSRI) )
  • 2010 Robert E. Black ( Johns Hopkins University, zinc administration mitigate the effects of diarrhea in children), Kenneth H. Brown ( Helen Keller Foundation, Dakar, zinc additive in malnutrition ), Kevin Marsh ( Wellcome Trust Research Labs, Kenya, malaria studies, for example, on different antigens in the life cycle of the pathogen ), Ananda S. Prasad ( Professor Wayne State University, Detroit, zinc - deficiency syndrome), Nicholas J. White ( Mahidol University, Thailand, malaria therapies with artemisinin )
  • 2009 Anne Wills (Professor of Health Policy at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, health economics and policy in developing countries), Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn (Program condom use against HIV infection in Thailand), Mechai Viravaidya ( Thai Society for Population and Community Development, birth planning with condom use in Thailand)
  • 2008 Sergio Henrique Ferreira (Brazil, ACE inhibitors such as captopril ), Michiaki Takahashi (Japan, chickenpox vaccine), Yu Yongxin (China, vaccine against Japanese encephalitis )
  • 2007 Basil Stuart Hetzel (Adelaide, iodine deficiency diseases ), Sanduk Ruit (Nepal, ophthalmologist, cataract surgical treatment - disease ), Axel Ullrich,
  • 2006 Richard A. Cash ( Harvard ), Dilip Mahalanabis (Director Society for Applied Studies, Kolkata ), David R. Nalin ( director of Scientific vaccine trials from Merck ), Stanley G. Schultz ( Dean of Texas Medical School) for the development of the WHO drinking solution
  • 2005 Eugene Goldwasser, Harald zur Hausen,
  • 2004 Jonathan M. Samet ( Johns Hopkins University, an expert on air pollution), Norman Sartorius ( University of Geneva, Director of the WHO Programme on Mental Health )
  • 2003 China Cooperative Research Group on Qinghaosu and Its Derivatives as Antimalarials ( isolation of the traditional Chinese cure malaria Artemisinin 1971), Herbert L. Needleman (Prof. Pittsburgh, lead poisoning children)
  • 2002 Roy Calne, Maurice Hilleman, P. Helena Makela (Finland, HIB ), Thomas E. Starzl
  • 2001 Barry Marshall, Lam Sai Kit ( virologist, Malaysia, Isolation of Nipah virus and Tioman virus research on dengue ), David Weatherall
  • 2000 David JP Barker (University of Southampton, studies on the relationship of malnutrition during pregnancy and heart disease ), Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers (Oxford, co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, which electronically Public Health published studies ), Richard Peto, Ernesto Pollitt (Peru, University of California, Davis, research into malnutrition of children, for example, iron deficiency)
  • 1999 R. Palmer Beasley, Tore Godal (Norway, tropical disease research program TDR WHO ), Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas (Nigeria, tropical disease research program of the WHO TDR )
  • 1998 Margaret Chan (Director of Health in Hong Kong, the fight against SARS by WHO ), René Favaloro, Kennedy F. Shortridge ( University of Hong Kong, insulation and combat the dangerous H5N1 avian influenza in Hong Kong 1997), Harvey D. White (New Zealand, thrombolysis and other therapies for myocarditis)
  • 1997 Guillermo Arroyave (Guatemala, nutritional studies and programs for children), Satoshi Omura, Alfred Sommer, P. Roy Vagelos (former President of Merck, free gift of the anti-worm agent Invermectin against onchocerciasis in the Third World )
  • 1996 Vincent Dole, Suchitra Nimmannitya ( Thai pediatrician, campaigns against dengue fever), Prasong Tuchinda ( Thai pediatrician investigation dengue fever )
  • 1995 Egon Diczfalusy (Sweden, reproductive medicine ), Carl Djerassi, Nafis Sadik ( Pakistan, Director of the United Nations Population Fund ), Frederick T. Sai (Prof. in Ghana, nutritionist for Africa among others for the FAO)
  • 1993 Ciro de Quadros, John B. Stanbury
  • 1992 Richard Doll, Chen Minzhang (Prof. in Beijing and Chinese Minister of Health )
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