Receiving the Newton Prize at the British Embassy in Thailand

22 November 2017: photos of receiving the Newton Prize at the British Embassy in Thailand. Air Chief Marshal Prajin Juntong, Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Mark Field, UK Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign Office, and Mr. Brian Davidson, British Ambassador to Thailand, presented the plaques and certificates to the Thai research teams who won first prize and 4 runner-up awards for Thailand in 2017: Thai research teams running projects that receive or have received Newton funding, whichhave performed outstandingly in research and/or innovation supporting economic development and social welfare in the partner countries.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Apichart Vanavichit, Director of the Rice Science Center, received the runner-up award for research on climate-resilient rice varieties (Climate Ready Rice: Optimising Transpiration to Protect Rice Yields Under Abiotic Stresses). The team leaders were Prof. Julie Gray, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Apichart Vanavichit, Department of Agronomy, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus, and an expert from the Plant Biotechnology Research Unit, Rice Gene Discovery Unit, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), NSTDA.

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