Hopkins Visit: BART LAB Director, MU-VP for Research, and TCELS Director Visited LCSR at Johns Hopkins University, USA

December 11, 2013, “Dr. Jackrit Suthakorn,” BART LAB Director, “Dr. Nares Damrongchai,” Director of Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS) of Thai Ministry of Science and Technology, “Prof. Prasit Palittapongarnpim,” Vice President for Research of Mahidol University, and Miss Choladawan Moonjaita, BART LAB Manager visited Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Louis L. Whitcomb (Department Chair of Hopkins Mechanical Engineering and Former LCSR Director) along with Prof. Iulian Iordachita warmly welcome and hosted a meeting to discuss the possibility on collaboration between BART LAB’s new project of “National Center for Advanced Medical Robotics” and Hopkins’s LCSR. A facility tour through LCSR was also arranged at the end. In this opportunity, the Thai delegates had a meal with BART LAB Alumni who were currently studying their Ph.D. at Hopkins; Yuttana Itsrachaiyot, Sureerat Reaungamornrat and Pornpat Athamanolap.