Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, graciously presided at the opening of the symposium on “Frontiers in Liver Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment” which was held at the convention center, Chulabhorn Research Institute on 24 February 2009.

The meeting was organized to incorporate a Thailand-USA workshop bringing together researchers, clinicians, epidemiologists and bio-informaticians from Thailand and the United States who are experts in cancer biology and genetics, with special reference to research into liver cancer.

In the opening address, Her Royal Highness thanked distinguished colleagues from National Cancer Institute of the United States, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Georgetown and Massachusetts Institute of Technology who had come to participants in the meeting and shared with Thai colleagues their research findings, experience and expertise in the area of liver cancer, which is now the number one cause of death in Thailand and the third cause of death worldwide.