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Dr. Kanyawim Kirtikara completed her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Connecticut in the United States. Following the completion of her Ph.D., she began a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Rutgers University and obtained a second postdoctoral fellowship at University of Tennessee. She then started her career in Thailand as a researcher at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), focusing on complex regulations of genes involved in prostaglandin synthesis. She became the Director of BIOTEC from 2008 to 2016. Then she briefly joined King Mongkut’s University of Technology as Vice President for Research Strategy. During 2018 and 2019, she was the Vice Minister for Science and Technology of Thailand. When the new research funding agency, the Program Management Unit for Human Resources and Institution Development, Research and Innovation (PMU B) was founded, she became the first Director from 2020-2021. Currently she is KMUTT’s Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation and the President of the Thai Academy of Science and Technology. Her responsibility at KMUTT is to lead strategic research directions for both academic excellence and societal relevance.
