Princess gives Prince Mahidol award to medical researchers
Two dedicated medical researchers, who won the Prince Mahidol Award for 2016, pledged to carry on their research and continue their work to help humanity. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Tuesday evening presented the Prince Mahidol Award for 2016 to Sir Gregory Paul Winter and Dr Vladimir Hachinski, the two awardees in the fields of medicine and public health respectively, at Boromrajasathitmaholarn Hall in the Grand Palace. The Princess then hosted a dinner to honour the laureates. Sir Winter, Master of UK’s Trinity College University of Cambridge, said he was very surprised and glad that he had been nominated for the Prince Mahidol Award in recognition of his achievements in research to develop humanised therapeutic antibody technologies.
