Live telecast of Prince Mahidol Award ceremony
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People can watch the Prince Mahidol Award 2014 presentation ceremony held at the Grand Palace's Chakri Throne Hall on Wednesday via a live broadcast of the ceremony on Modern 9 TV, TV Channel NBT, and Radio Thailand, from 5.30pm, the National News Bureau
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, on behalf of HM the King, will confer the Prince Mahidol Award 2014 to a Japanese researcher Dr Akira Endo in the field of medicine and an American researcher Dr Donald A Henderson in the field of public health.
Endo has been chosen for his discovery of the first anticholesterol statin called compactin, which has the capacity to reduce the amount of cholesterol in blood and effectively reduce cardiovascular disease, saving millions of lives around the world. In the field of public health, Henderson was the main contributor to the success of a Smallpox Eradication Campaign and his knowledge of smallpox elimination is also to be applied in the eradication of Ebola.
