“Professor Puangrat Yongvanit passed away on July 02, 2021. All the CASCAP team, the Thai CCA Foundation, all the KKU team, and her many international friends and colleagues will miss her dreadfully. Indeed, Prof. Puangrat will be an immense loss to the global CCA community.”

“Professor Puangrat Yongvanit worked at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, for over 40 years. Professor Puangrat’s research on the biochemistry and mechanisms of carcinogenesis, specifically on cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), which is caused by the group 1 carcinogen Opisthorchis viverrini, has been groundbreaking, resulting in more than 160 scientific publications on opisthorchiasis and cholangiocarcinoma. She has also contributed to several university administrations, including the establishment of the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation to combat cholangiocarcinoma in Thailand, the Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center, and also the Cholangiocarcinoma Screening and Care Program (CASCAP), which currently underpin and operate the Fluke Free Thailand Project. In the past 10 years, Professor Puangrat served as the chairperson of the Thailand CCA Foundation and actively coordinated various activities in fundraising and supporting the cancer victims and their relatives. Professor Puangrat spent a lifetime of work helping the poor communities in Thailand and elsewhere in the SE Asian region to gain knowledge and understanding of opisthorchiasis and cholangiocarcinoma and their risk factors; she will be sadly missed.”