The Kei-ichiro Maeda Memorial T&C Award 2026 was awarded to the following two young veterinary researchers:
Harvie P. Portugaliza
Visayas State University, Philippines
Research title: “Integrating Farm-Level Epidemiology and Abattoir Surveillance to Characterize African Swine Fever (ASF) Risk in Leyte, Philippines”
Sekkarin Ploypetch
Mahidol University, Thailand
Research title: “Comparative Omics Profiling and Biomarker Discovery in Canine and Feline Oral Pathologies: Advancing Clinical Science through Proteomics and Peptidomics”
✳︎ The award lectures will be given at the World Veterinary Association Congress on 24th April