หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัย (หลัก)

English translation: Chief Investigator

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Thai term or phrase:	หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัย (หลัก)
English translation:	Chief Investigator
Entered by:	Dylan J Hartmann

01:56 Jun 13, 2018

Thai to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals

Thai term or phrase: หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัย (หลัก)

Taken from a clinical trial translation, ethics committee letter:

ด้วยข้าพเจ้ารองศาสตราจารย์นายแพทย์ xxxx หน่วย xxxx ภาควิชา xxxx คณะ xxxx หาวิทยาลัย xxxxx หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัย (หลัก) มีความประสงค์จะดำเนินการวิจัยเรื่อง

Your kind confirmation would be appreciated.

Dylan J Hartmann
Australia

Principal Investigator

Explanation:
I think the literal translation of this can be Head of Research Project, which is Head of Research. But I think Principal Investigator is more commonly used in clinical trial/medical research.
Hope this helps.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2018-06-13 09:57:55 GMT)
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What about using "Lead" or "Main" for หลัก? and What about Chief Investigator (CI)? I think he/she is big boss of PI.

Selected response from:

Sukhuma Moonmake-Sheehan
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:24

Grading comment

Great work, thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +1

Principal Investigator

Sukhuma Moonmake-Sheehan

Senior Research Project Manager

Daniel Loss

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

4 hrs confidence:

Senior Research Project Manager

Explanation:
There are some differing English translations in university documents. Research Project Leader has more hits on Google n-gram than a manager. but I'm going to put forward Senior Research Project Manager, as an option. Using COCA (a corpus) I found the article linked in my references which uses this term.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011276/

Daniel Loss
Thailand
Local time: 04:24
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for your input but this is regarding clinical trials, as mentioned in the question.

7 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Principal Investigator

Sukhuma Moonmake-Sheehan
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Thai
PRO pts in category: 32

Grading comment

Great work, thanks

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks Sukhuma, this answer is obviously correct for หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัย, because Head of Research Project is not used in clinical trials (unless literally translated). The (หลัก) is what this KudoZ is trying to determine because it’s not very often used. Your answer has overlooked this, but do you think this should be disregarded? The study is being held at several sites in Thailand with several PIs. Only one PI had (หลัก) after หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัย.

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