Name: Pravit Akarasereenont
Title: Associate Professor
Country: Thailand
Email: pravit.auk@mahidol.edu
Affiliation
- Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine,
- Division of Inflammopharmacology, Pharmacology Department,
- Siriraj Metabolomics and Phenomic Center (SiMPC), and
- WHO CC for traditional medicine in Thailand Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
Official Position
- Chairman, of Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand.
- Head, Division of Inflammopharmacology, Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand.
- Commitee, Siriraj Metabolomics and Phenomic Center (SiMPC), Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand.
- Director of WHO CC for traditional medicine in Thailand.
Biography:
Dr Pravit Akarasereenont finished MD from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in 1991 with Second Class Honours. In 1993, he joined with Prof. Sir John Vane (Nobel laureates)’s group at William Harvey Institute, University of London and obtained his PhD in Pharmacology in 1995, after which he has set up inflammation research group at Siriraj Hospital and published a lot of articles and books in both national and international since 1995. In 2003, he appointed for Deputy Head of Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine and modernized herbal medicine research in this fields using reverse pharmacology model. In 2015, he was involved in the initial establishment of the metabolomics platform at Siriraj Hospital and was Deputy Head of Siriraj Metabolomics and Phenomics Center (SiMPC). Later, he appointed for Head of Department of Pharmacology and Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine in 2016 and 2017, respectively. In 2018, he appointed for Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine (WHOCC-TM) at Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. He is currently the Metabolomics Group Leader in Thai Traditional Medicine at Siriraj Hospital and developing reverse metabolomics model for Thai traditional medicine research. His research interests involve around the use of multi-omics analysis for system medicine with big data analysis leading to personalization medicine and precision medicine as well as AI and metaverse platform for Thai traditional medicine.