Thai doctor wins Japanese award

BANGKOK, November 1 (TNA) - A Thai doctor has won an honourable award from the Japan Society of Human Genetics (JHG) for his research considered beneficial for human genetics and published by the Journal of Human Genetics Young Scientist Award. Dr. Apichai Mongkol, Director-General of the Thai Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Medical Sciences, told journalists on Friday that Dr. Surakmet Mahasirimongkol, head of his department's medical genetics centre will be bestowed the JHG Young Scientist Award by Japan Society of Human Genetics at its next annual meeting for his research project on utilizing genetic and environmental information in public health. Similar awards have also been handed over to selected researchers during the past two years. This year, two persons will receive the award from the Society, including Dr. Surakmet and Mr. Shinji Ono of Nagasaki University for his research, called "Mutations in PRRT2" responsible for paroxysmal kinesigenicdyskinesias which also causes benign familial infantile convulsions. (TNA)