Associate Professor Dr. Pipop Saikaew, along with Assistant Lecturer Jirachaya Somudorn, faculty members from the Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University (DTMU), participated in the Hokkaido Summer Institute 2025 and an academic exchange visit from July 9–20, 2025, at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan. This collaboration was supported by a grant under the International Collaboration Promotion Program, which aims to foster academic partnerships by supporting Faculty of Dentistry Mahidol University (DTMU) faculty and staff to engage in academic visits or collaborative research with partner institutions that have established Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with DTMU.

On this occasion, Associate Professor Dr. Pipop Saikaew was honored to deliver a lecture on “Basic Research in Adhesive Dentistry and Its Clinical Applications”, sharing his expertise in operative dentistry with postgraduate dental students and practicing dentists attending the event.