Dr. Chatchai Phoomak

Office:

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University
Phayathai Road, Pathumwan
Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Contact Information:

Tel:  02-2185261

E-mail: chatchai.ph@chula.ac.th

Teaching/Research Field:

  • Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Biology
  • Protein glycosylation

Research Laboratory/Unit/Center of Excellence:

Cancer Biology Laboratory

Current Research Topics:

  • High-glucose induces aggressiveness of liver and lung cancers via modulating protein glycosylation
  • Inhibition of protein glycosylation in cancer cells using nanoparticle as drug delivery system
  • Effect of ER-stress on protein modification in cancer cells

Education:

B.Sc. (Medical Technology) 2006-2010 Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

M.Sc. (Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) 2010-2013 Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Ph.D. (Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) 2013-2017 Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Research training:

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand (2017 – 2018)

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, USA (2018 – 2022)

Scholarship and awards:

  1. Outstanding Oral Presentation in RGJ – Ph.D. Congress XVII (2016)
  2. Outstanding Poster Presentation Award in The 5th International Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference (2016)
  3. Travel grant in The 76th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association (2017)
  4. Poster award in 24th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, International Glycoconjugate Organization (IGO) (2017)
  5. BMB Thailand Fellowship in IUBMB Advanced School, Science Society of Thailand (2018)
  6. Travel award for the 2019 Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology, Phoenix, AZ (2019)

Book:

Silsirivanit A, Phoomak C, Wongkham S (2021) Glycosylation in Cholangiocarcinoma Development and Metastasis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations. In: Tabibian J.H. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Cholangiocarcinoma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70936-5_25

Representative publications

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