Background
Tharavanij, Savanat was born on September 22, 1934 in Songkhla, Thailand. Son of Boonsian and Kiang Tharavanij.
Tharavanij, Savanat was born on September 22, 1934 in Songkhla, Thailand. Son of Boonsian and Kiang Tharavanij.
Doctor of Medicine with honors, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology, University Adelaide, South Australia, 1966.
House officer department medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, 1959-1960;
instructor department tropical hyg. Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1960-1970;
acting head department microbiology immunology, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1970-1971;
head department microbiology immunology, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1971-1994;
assistant professor department microbiology immunology, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1973-1978;
professor department microbiology immunology, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1978-1994;
professor emeritus, consultant department microbiology & immunology, Mahidol U., Bangkok, since 1994;
chairman academic committee, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1990-1994;
chairman diagnostic center, Mahidol U., Bangkok, 1993-1994. World Health Organization temporary advisor The Hainan (People's Republic of China) Institute Tropical Diseases, 1993.
Member science advisory panel Prince Mahidol Award, Bangkok, 1992-1995. Member expert commission on vector-borne disease Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, 1989. Consultant to Research and Development unit Queen Saovabha Institute, Bangkok, 1995.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Federation for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (executive committee 1993-1996), Parasitology and Tropical Medicine Association of Thailand (pes. 1993-1996), American Society Microbiology, British Society Immunology, Society Leukocyte Biology, American Society Tropical Medicine Hygiene, New York Academy of Sciences.
Married Veena Tharavanij, March 9, 1973. Children: Tipaporn, Piyapas.