Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol Pays Royal Visit to Japan from December 15-19, 2025 to Receive the TEAC Medal of Honor
Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol recognizes the importance of people’s health care through the promotion of scientific and medical research. To this end, Her Royal Highness conducts studies on the importance of natural products, including Thai herbs and their nutritional value, and the development of these herbs into efficient drugs to sustainably elevate the people’s quality of life.
Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, in Her Capacity as Director, Laboratory of Natural Products, focuses Her work on seeking potential substances from Thai plants and herbs to be developed into new drugs for treatment of various diseases, as well as the development of chemosynthesis process into more efficient active substances.
Her Royal Highness’s studies and research have been published in numerous leading international academic journals. Awards have been presented to Her from many institutes. Her Royal Highness has also been ranked the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” in the field of medicinal & biomolecular chemistry from Stanford University, USA, continuously since 2021 up till the present.
Her Royal Highness’s competence and perseverance have led to outstanding and widely recognized research works that has evidently benefited the country and the scientific sector continuously for many decades. Therefore, in the name of the committee of experts of the Symposium on the Chemistry of Terpenes, Essential Oils and Aromatics (TEAC), 
a resolution was reached to present Her Royal Highness with the TEAC Medal of Honor, an award which was established for the first time on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the TEAC and to humbly confer upon Her Royal Highness the position of a Permanent Honorary Member of the TEAC in the 69th Symposium on the Chemistry of Terpenes, Essential Oils and Aromatics at Tokushima Bunri University, Japan. The selection criteria for this award focus on scientists who are committed to developing knowledge on chemistry, natural products, and mankind’s health with clearly demonstrated achievements.
Her Royal Highness’s working visits to Japan have led to academic cooperation between Thailand and Japan continuously up till the present. Especially in 2015, Her Royal Highness graciously gave a lecture on the topic of natural products which are active ingredients in resisting and preventing cancer from Thailand’s bio-based resources at the Academic Conference of the Phytochemical Society of ASIA (PSA) at Tokushima Bunri University, greatly impressing and inspiring all the participants with Her competence.
During this Royal Visit for the presentation of the TEAC Medal of Honor, Her Royal Highness graciously granted an audience to Prof. Dr. Yoshinori Asakawa, President of TEAC, and delegation to discuss academic cooperation between Chulabhorn Research Institute, Chulabhorn Graduate Institute, and Tokushima Bunri University on the exchange of researchers, lecturers, and students, as well as development of joint doctoral programs between the Chulabhorn Graduate Institute and Japanese universities which will benefit both countries.
This is yet another important step to forge cooperation in the chemistry research field, leading to exchange of knowledge on research on natural products at the international level with the applied scientific process, and producing science leaders that can tangibly and successfully expand towards the academic sector to improve the Thai people’s health.
Her Royal Highness’s award on this occasion clearly reflects Her great competence as a scientist who dedicates Herself to developing knowledge on chemistry, natural products, and mankind’s health that gracefully promotes and elevates the Thai scientific community into international arenas.
Public Relations Section
Office of the President
January 19, 2026
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