Address:Maitree Suttajit Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Science,

University of Phayao, Maeka district,Phayao, Thailand

Tel. 0851416549 E-mail: maitree.suttajit@gmail.com

Lifestyle:

            As a restricted Buddhist, he has been a vegetarian (occasionally egg and milk) since around 1981 and is having a tendency to be a vegan.

Education:

Ph.D (Biochemistry) from State University of New York at  Buffalo, USA  in 1971.

Working experience:

2010-2015 : Dean, Faculty of Medical Science, University of  Phayao,  Thailand,

2005-2010: School of Science and Technology, Naresuan University at Phayao, Thailand.

2001-2005: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science,  Mahasarakham University, Thailand.

1963-2000  Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University,   

    Thailand

Dr Maitree Suttajit is now a Professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of  Medical Science, University of Phayao .  He has been involved in teaching biochemistry, nutrition, food and environmental toxicology and  research methodogy for biomedical science undergraduates and graduates for the past 40 years.

           Research and publicaions:

Dr. Maitree Suttajit is actively involved in research and his main research interest  are  functional foods, natural products  such as  mycotoxins mainly aflatoxins, carcinogens, tumor promoters, free radicals and oxidative stress in diseases and antioxidants and anti-inflammation activities of  phytochemicals. He has successfully had completed numerous projects that involved the home-made and field kits for aflatoxin analysis for the prevention of aflatoxins contaminations in food and feedstuffs, cancer preventon and . He is currently studied the the presence and applications of omega fatty acids and  antioxidants  highly found in local perilla (Nga-mon) seeds. . Collectively, these projects have resulted in more than 100 original publications and conference papers, books authorization and a patent.

He has also supervised numerous Ph.D., M.Sc. students and staffs . In the past  there were about 50 graduates under his supervision.

           Honors and awards

He has reviewed about 100 manuscripts for a number of reputable Thai and  international journals.He is the Founder President and Board Member of the Society for Free Radical Research of Thailand (SFRR-Thai),  and also of the Thai Vegetarian Association (TVA) .He been awarded  by TVA for his  contributions to vegetarianism promotion in the country and  Asia.

 In 2009, Dr. Suttajit was given a Cerebos award for a research fund to do investigate the health benefits of red pigmented rice.. Moreover, he has received several research grant Lastly, he was selected  to be  an  outstanding  researcher in medical nutrition  from  Asia-Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society  in  2014