Dr. Srung Smanmoo, BIOTEC researcher at Bioresources Laboratory, and Mr. Weerachai Nasampan, a graduate student from Mahidol University, won an Audience Choice Award for their invention “G-breath” at the Intel-DST Pacific Challenge 2012 held in Bangalore, India on 9 August 2012. more...

August 17^th marked the return of National Science and Technology Fair (NSTF), Thailand’s largest science and technology annual festival aiming to promote public understanding and awareness of science and technology to Thai young people. more...

Seed export is one of the largest sectors of Thailand’s agribusiness economy. In 2010, the value of seed application was approximately 25 billion Baht (USD 833 million). Pests and pathogens pose serious problems to crop production by reducing both the quantity and quality of the products. more...

On 1 August 2012, BIOTEC and Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig (HZI) from Germany co-organized a joint seminar on “Exploitation of the microbial bio- and chemodiversity in Thailand and Germany” at the Thailand Science Park. more...

Dr. Sithichoke Tangphatsornruang, Head of BIOTEC Genomic Research Laboratory, is one of 3 researchers chosen by the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King to receive the 2012 Young Scientist Award. more...

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) developed a scheme for joint funding of Japanese-Thai cooperative research projects called “Strategic Japanese-Thai Cooperative Program” to strengthen the collaboration in science and technology between Japan and Thailand. more...

Pharmaceutical Executive, a magazine for senior executives and operating managers at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, recently published a Focus Report on Thailand. The Report features update on biotechnology and life science in Thailand with more...

iCollect is a software to support the laboratory’s inventory management of biological collections.  It allows users to create any type of sample containers and storage devices, store any type of samples and collections, graphically view the content of all levels of storages, more...

On 4 July 2012, the opening ceremony of Human Resource Development (HRD) Program in Biotechnology 2012 was held to welcome 11 researchers from Asia-Pacific region.  This year, young researchers come from Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam. more...

BIOTEC, in collaboration with the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden and Japan’s National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), will be hosting Conference on Value Added Culture Collection and the 9^th Annual Meeting of the Asian Consortium for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources (ACM) this coming October in Chiang Mai Province. more...