Professor from U of Sheffield Visited Ramathibodi

On May 15, 2017 at Meeting Room No.1, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Professor Piyamitr Sritara, M.D., FRCP, FACP, FRCP (T), Dean along with Professor Sirintara Singhara Na Ayudhaya, M.D., Deputy Dean for International Relations and Professor Boonsong Ongphiphadhanakul, M.D., Deputy Dean for Research provided a warm welcome to Professor Peter Monk, BSc, PhD., Professor of Immunology, Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield for his visit to Thailand.

With this good opportunities, he visited Ramathibodi in order to discuss about the new research collaboration, in addition he provided the special lecture about his new project about New Strategy for Preventing Bacterial and Yeast Infections in Skin that would be benefit for our young staff in the specific area.

In 1995, Arthritis Research UK awarded Professor Monk post-doctoral fellowship to establish his own laboratory, working on the interactions between C5a and its receptor as the first group to characterise the second C5a receptor, C5L2, now recognised to have important roles in inflammation and neurodegeneration.