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Received: 13 May 2018

Accepted: 18 February 2019

First Online: 4 March 2019

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: Wiphawan Wasenang received her B. Medical Technology from Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand in 2011. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Sciences program in Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand under guidance of Prof. Temduang Limpaiboon. She is working on cancer genetics and epigenetics in CCA for finding biomarkers and novel therapeutic drugs for the treatment.Ponlatham Chaiyarit received his Ph.D. degree in Dental Science from Indiana University, USA. He is an Associate Professor at Department of Oral Diagnosis and also the director of Chronic Inflammatory Oral Disease Research Group at Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. His research work has been focused on two aspects: the first aspect is the pathogenesis of oral diseases such as oral lichen planus and oral cancer. The second aspect is saliva research for the diagnostics and monitoring device for personalized health care.Siriporn Proungvitaya received her Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Kumamoto University, Japan. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Chemistry and also a senior advisor of cancer research group at the Centre for Research and Development of Medical Diagnostic Laboratories (CMDL), Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Her research work has been focused on proteomics for cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis.Temduang Limpaiboon received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1991. She was a JSPS visiting scientist in Tumor Biology at Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan in 1995 and in Molecular Oncology at Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan in 2002. Currently, she is a Professor at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, and a leader of cancer research group at the Centre for Research and Development of Medical Diagnostic Laboratories (CMDL), Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Prof. Limpaiboon’s laboratory focuses on cancer epigenetics, molecular biomarkers, and tumor biology of cholangiocarcinoma and cervical cancer. Her research activities also include 3-D scaffolds for cancer culture and tumor biology, biomimetic materials for cartilage tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and nanomedicine. She supervised 7 PhD and 9 MSc, and co-supervised around 40 PhD and MSc students to completion. She currently supervises 5 PhD and 1 MSc, and co-supervises about 20 PhD and MSC students.

: This study was approved by the Khon Kaen University Ethics Committee for Human Research. The reference number was HE551066.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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