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PRIZE COMMITTEES & JURIES

The 2003 Prize Committe & Jury

Organization Committee

- Prof. José. Dutra de Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Prof. Hecor Bourges Rodriguez, National Institute of Nutrition, Mexico
- Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman, University of California, USA
- Prof. Soichi Arai, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
- Prof. Zuzana Brazdova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Prof. Marcello Giovannini, University of Milan, Italy
- Prof. André Uyghebaert, University of Gent, Belgium
- Prof. Peter Jones, McGill University, Canada
- Prof. Emanuel Lebenthal, University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Prof. Liming Li, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, China
- Prof. Valentin Pokrovsky, Russian Academy of Medical Science, Russia
- Prof. Daniel Rigaud, CHU Le Bocage, France
- Prof. Manuel Serrano Rios, University of Complutense of Madrid, Spain
- Prof. Jerzy Socha, Institute of Child Health, Warsaw, Poland
- Prof. Günther Wolfram, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Pre-selection Committee

- Prof. José. Dutra de Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Prof. Hecor Bourges Rodriguez, National Institute of Nutrition, Mexico (Vice-Chairman)
- Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman, University of California, USA (Vice-Chairwoman)
- Prof. Soichi Arai, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
- Prof. Matty Chiva (deceased) , University of Paris X, France
- Prof. John H. Cummings, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, United Kingdom
- Dr. John W. Erdman Jr., University of Illinois, USA
- Prof. Pipop Jirapinyo, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand
- Prof. Emanuel Lebenthal, University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Prof. Manuel Serrano Rios, University of Complutense, Spain
- Dr.Viktor Tutelyan, Russian Academy of Medical Science, Russia
- Dr. Xiaoguang Yang, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, China

Jury

- Prof. Christine Williams, University of Reading, United Kingdom
- Prof. Agus Firmansyah, Medical Faculty University of Indonesia, Indonesia
- Prof. Franco Lajolo, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Dr. Allan Walker, Harvard Medical School, United-States
- Dr. Mark Wahlqvist, Monash Asia Institute, Australia
- Prof. Bernard Dastugue, INSERM and Clermont-Ferrand University of Medicine, France


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