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Vaccine Trial Centre, Faculty of Tropical Medicine Mahidol University
- Recognising the urgent need of another controlled clinical facility for evaluation of reactogenicity and protective efficacy of newly developed vaccines against infectious agents in human.
- The World Health Organization Special Programme on Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases supported the establishment of such a facility in the tropics, where diarrhoeal diseases are endemic and the vaccines specifically needed are different from Western countries.
- With the initiation of Professor Emeritus Dr. Natth Bhamarapravati, Formal President of Mahidol University (MU). The Vaccine trial Centre (VTC) was set up at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok in February 1984 with the approval of the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand.
- Prof. Emeritus Sricharoen Migasena had served as the first director of Vaccine Trial Centre.
Prof. Emeritus Punnee Pitisuttithum
36th VTC Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
