MDKKU recently welcomed Dr. Naoya Wada and Dr. Hiroto Tanaka from the Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan to our Department of Parasitology between February 20 and 21, 2024.

NICT aims to unite various research fields and promote research collaboration with industry, academia, and government related to basic research on international information communication. NICT made a Cooperative Research Agreement (CRA) with KKU before the COVID-19 pandemic and have been working since then with Professor Somchai Pinlaor, Department of Parasitology, to develop biomarker sensors based on micro-optical circuit technologies.

During the visit, Professor Pinlaor and Department members and Dr. Wada and Dr. Tanaka met with Assoc. Prof. Apichat Jiravuttipong, MDKKU Dean, and our International Relations Affairs administrators to discuss their collaborative projects and future developments.

Reporting by Sathaphorn Onlamun

Editing by Prof. John F Smith