Prince Mahidol Prize
Statue of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej in front of the Sirirat Hospital in Bangkok
The Prince Mahidol Prize ( Thai พระราชทาน รางวัล สมเด็จ เจ้าฟ้า มหิดล , English Prince Mahidol Award ) is an award given annually by the Thai royal family for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health worldwide.
The prize is awarded annually to international personalities and institutions in two categories:
- for excellent advances in medicine
- for the active promotion of the public health system.
Prince Mahidol Prize Foundation
King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej founded the Prince Mahidol Prize Foundation on January 1, 1992 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of his father, Prince Mahidol , initially under the name "Mahidol Prize Foundation", since July 28, 1997 as " Prince Mahidol Prize Foundation ”. In addition to the actual awarding of the prize, the fund also promotes the memory of Prince Mahidol, who was one of the first members of the royal family to make the country's public health system his task.
Currently (as of 2016) Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is the chairwoman of the foundation committee.
Award winners
- 2019 Ralf Bartenschlager , David Mabey
- 2018 Brian J. Druker , Mary-Claire King , Jan R. Holmgren , John D. Clemens
- 2017 human genome project ; Porter W. Anderson , John B. Robbins , Rachel Schneerson , Mathuram Santosham (Haemophilus influenzae vaccination)
- 2016 Gregory Paul Winter (pioneer of antibody modification), Vladimir Hachinski (expert on stroke and vascular dementia)
- 2015 Morton M. Mower (invention of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator, AICD), Michael Gideon Marmot (determination of social health factors, social determinants of health )
- 2014 Akira Endo (discovery of HMG-CoA reductase blockers), Donald A. Henderson (eradication of smallpox)
- 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 for contributions to AIDS therapy
- 2012 Uche Veronica Amazigo (African Program 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, Rotavirus diarrhea), David T. Wong (Fluoxetine, the first Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI))
- 2010 Robert E. Black (Johns Hopkins University, zinc administration to relieve diarrhea in children), Kenneth H. Brown (Helen Keller Foundation, Dakar, zinc addition for malnutrition), Kevin Marsh (Wellcome Trust Research Labs, Kenya, malaria -Studies e.g. about different antigens in the life cycle of the pathogen), Ananda S. Prasad (Prof. 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 for condom use against HIV infection in Thailand), Mechai Viravaidya (Thai Society for Population and Community Development , Birth planning with condom use in Thailand)
- 2008 Sérgio 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, surgical treatment of cataract disease), Axel Ullrich ,
- 2006 Richard A. Cash (Harvard), Dilip Mahalanabis (Director Society for Applied Studies, Kolkata ), David R. Nalin (Director Scientific Vaccine Studies at Merck), Stanley G. Schultz (Dean of Texas Medical School) for WHO Development -Drinking solution
- 2005 Eugene Goldwasser , Harald zur Hausen ,
- 2004 Jonathan M. Samet (Johns Hopkins University, air pollution expert), Norman Sartorius (University of Geneva, Director of the WHO Mental Health Program)
- 2003 China Cooperative Research Group on Qinghaosu and its Derivatives as Antimalarials (Isolation of the traditional Chinese malaria remedy Artemisinin 1971), Herbert L. Needleman (Prof. Pittsburgh, lead poisoning children)
- 2002 Roy Calne , Maurice Hilleman , P. Helena Makela (Finland, HIB vaccination ), Thomas E. Starzl
- 2001 Barry Marshall , Lam Sai Kit (virologist, Malaysia, isolation of Nipah virus and Tioman virus , research on dengue fever), David Weatherall
- 2000 David JP Barker (University of Southampton, Studies on the Association of Malnutrition During Pregnancy and Heart Disease), Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers (Oxford, co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, which publishes electronically public health studies), Richard Peto , Ernesto Pollitt (Peru, University of California, Davis, Research into Child Malnutrition, e.g. Iron Deficiency)
- 1999 R. Palmer Beasley , Tore Godal (Norway, WHO Tropical Disease Research Program TDR), Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas (Nigeria, WHO Tropical Disease Research Program TDR)
- 1998 Margaret Chan (Director of Health in Hong Kong, Combating SARS at WHO), René Favaloro , Kennedy F. Shortridge (University of Hong Kong, Isolation and Control of the Dangerous Avian Influenza Virus H5N1 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 Merck President, free administration of the anti-worm drug ivermectin for onchocerciasis in the developing world)
- 1996 Vincent Dole , Suchitra Nimmannitya (Thai pediatrician, campaigns against dengue fever ), Prasong Tuchinda (Thai pediatrician, examining dengue fever)
- 1995 Egon Diczfalusy (Sweden, reproductive medicine ), Carl Djerassi , Nafis Sadik (from Pakistan, director of the United Nations Population Fund), Frederick T. Sai (professor in Ghana, nutritionist for Africa and others for the FAO)
- 1994 Ho Wang Lee (microbiologist, professor in Seoul, discovery of the Hantaan virus ), William Trager
- 1993 Ciro de Quadros , John B. Stanbury
- 1992 Richard Doll , Chen Minzhang (Prof. in Beijing and Chinese Minister of Health)
Web links
- Prince Mahidol Award Conference
- princemahidolaward.org Official website of the Prince Mahidol Prize Foundation (in English)
- princemahidolaward.org List of award winners
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement of the Prince Mahidol Award 2019. In: princemahidolaward.org. Prince Mahidol Award Foundation, November 21, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
- ^ Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage. In: princemahidolaward.org. November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn To Preside Over The Prince Mahidol Award Presentation Ceremony - Thailand News Gazette. In: thailandnewsgazette.com. November 17, 2016, accessed November 20, 2016 .