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Abstracts

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
(Nobel Laureate)
The Stanford VA Hospital, Palo Alto, CA,
USA

Charles N. Serhan
Charles N. Serhan
Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115,
USA

Dimitris Roukos
Dimitris Roukos
Professor of Surgery and Precision Cancer Genome Medicine Founding Director Centre for BioSystems and Genome Network Medicine Ioannina University, School of Medicine Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Athens,
Greece

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Shuji Ogino
Dept. of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 221 Longwood Ave. EBRC Room 404A, Boston, MA 02115
USA

Nabil G. Seidah
Nabil G. Seidah
Laboratory of Biochemical Neuroendocrinology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (affiliated with the University of Montreal), 110 Pine Ave West, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

D.K. Lahiri
D.K. Lahiri
Department of Psychiatry and of Medical & Molecular Genetics, IADC, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN,
USA

Rakesh Kumar
Rakesh Kumar
Cancer Biology Program, Rajiv Gandhi Center of Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 695014,
India

Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery & Therapy

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
GARTEL, Andrei L.
Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
USA

Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Joseph F. Ndisang
PharmD, PhD, FICA, FCCS, FAHA Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Department of Physiology, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon SK, S7N 5E5,
Canada

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Heni Rachmawati
Professor Pharmaceutics School of Pharmacy Bandung Institute of Technology Ganesha 10 Bandung 40132
Indonesia

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Ming-Yow Hung
Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City,
Taiwan

Cancer Biomarkers

TRACK CHAIR
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Antonio Scilimati
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Department of Pharmacy - Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Bari "A. Moro" Via E.Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari,
Italy

Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery

TRACK CHAIR
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George Chen
Director of Surgical Lab Principal Investigator, Cancer Centre Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong

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Richard Maximus Fleming
Director and Chair FHHI-OmnificImaging-Camelot. NV20171338825 El Segundo, CA,
USA

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Avishay Sella
Head Department of Oncology Assaf Harofeh Medical Center Zerifin 73100,
Israel

SESSION SPEAKER
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Sengottuvelan Balasubramanian
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Madras, Chennai-600025.
India

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Daniela M. Dinulescu
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Women's and Perinatal Pathology Harvard Medical School, Boston,
USA

Chemistry

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Rachid MASROUR
Laboratory of Materials Processes, Environment and Quality Cady Ayyed University National School of Applied Sciences
Morocco

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Stephen Clarke
COOE Pty. Ltd. L1, 40-46 West Thebarton Road Thebarton, South Australia, Australia, 5031 PO Box 591, Littlehampton, SA 5250
Australia

CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Xin Qi
Associate Professor Department of Physiology and Biophysics Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2109 Adelbert Road, E516 Cleveland, Ohio 44106,
USA

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Emel YILDIZ
Dept.of Chemistry, Arts & Science Faculty, Cukurova University, 01330 Adana,
Turkey

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VIPIN BAHADUR SINGH
CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS UDAI PRATAP (AUTONOMOUS) COLLEGE BHOJUBEER, VARANASI-221002 UP
INDIA

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Jinxiang Xi
UMass Lowell 220 Pawtucket St, Lowell, MA 01854,
USA

INVITED SPEAKER
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Nasser Zawia
University of Rhode Island George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience Kingston, RI, 02881,
USA

Conference Speakers
Riqiang Yan
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT,
USA

Conference Speakers
Othman Ghribi
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 1301 N Columbia Rd Stop 9037, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037,
USA

SESSION SPEAKER
Conference Speakers
Yu-Shuan Chen
Department of Medical Research, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Bioinnovation Center, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien County,
Taiwan

Drug Metabolism

TRACK CHAIR
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Ahmed M. Abdel-Megied
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kafrelshiekh University,
EGYPT

Hot Topics in HIV Research

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Yuntao Wu
National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases School of Systems Biology George Mason University Manassas, VA 20110,
USA

Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

TRACK CHAIR
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Subroto Chatterjee
Johns Hopkins University, Sphingolipid Signaling Laboratory Department of Pediatrics-Cardiology Division 600 N. Wolfe Street Blalock 1385 Baltimore, MD 21287,
USA

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Scott t. Handy
Professor of Chemistry Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132,
USA

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Salvador Ventura
Protein Folding and Conformational Diseases Lab Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Parc de Recerca UAB, Mòdul B E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
Spain

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Arndt Remhof
Empa Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology Hydrogen and Energy CH-8600 Dbendorf
Switzerland

Hot Topics in Drug Targets

TRACK CHAIR
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Hiroyuki Osada
Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama,
Japan

INVITED SPEAKER
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Christian Ottmann
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven,
Netherlands

SESSION SPEAKER
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Janos Kriston-Vizi
University College London (UCL), MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, London, UK
UK

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Masaya Imoto
Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology Keio University, Tokyo,
Japan

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Takashi Owa
Corporate Officer, Chief Medicine Creation Officer, Chief Discovery Officer, Oncology Business Group, Eisai Inc. 155 Tice Blvd., Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677,
USA

Inflammation & Immunology

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Raphael Stricker
Union Square Medical Associates 450 Sutter Street, Suite 1504 San Francisco, CA 94108,
USA

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Yang Jin
Associated Professor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Boston University Medical Campus 72 E Concord St, R304 Boston, MA 02118,
USA

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Pio Conti
Professor of Immunology, Postgraduate Medical School, University of Chiti-Pescara, via dei Vestini, 66100 Chieti,
Italy

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Shweta Joshi
University of California San Diego CA 92103
USA

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Yuejuan (Daisy) Zheng
Professor in Immunology Vice Dean, School of Basic Sciences of Medicine, S hanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Address: 46#, 1200 Cailun Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai 201203,
China

Hot Topics in Natural Products

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
David G. I. Kingston
Department of Chemistry and the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061,
USA

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Ramasamy. Rajendran
PG & Research Department of Microbiology PSG College of Arts and Science Civil Aerodrome PO Coimbatore-641014,
INDIA

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Xiao-Ping WANG
Director,Department of Neurology Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital Shanghai Jiao-Tong University Wujing Road 85#,Shanghai
PR China

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Soobitha Subenthiran
Bioassay Unit Herbal Medicine Research Center Institute for Medical Research 50588 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

SESSION SPEAKERS
Conference Speakers
Xiao-Ping Wang
Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai,
China

Conference Speakers
Shugeng Cao
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720,
USA

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Liva Harinantenaina Rakotondraibe
College of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, The Ohio State University,
USA

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Wei Shi
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas,
USA

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Nadja B. Cech
Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

Innovative Drug Discovery and Nanotechnology

TRACK CHAIR
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Teresa Pellegrino
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia via Morego 30, Genoa, 16163
Italy

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Andrea Danani
Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA)
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI)
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Galleria 2, CH-6928 Manno
Switzerland

SESSION SPEAKER
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Rohan Fernandes
Department of Medicine, George Washington Cancer Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052,
United States

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Anna Cristina Samia
Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University,
USA

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Rebecca Abergel
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,
USA

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Davide Prosperi
NanoBioLab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 2012, Milan,
Italy

Medical Imaging

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Gordana Vitaliano
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Brain Imaging Nanotechnology Group, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, MIC, Mailstop #204 115 Mill St. Belmont, MA 02478
USA

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Payel Sil
National Institutes of Health (NIH)| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC,
USA

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Carlos H. Serezani
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN 37232,
USA

Pharmaceutical Research & Development

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Kuberan Balagurunathan
Department of Medicinal Chemistry College of Pharmacy University of Utah Salt Lake City UT 84112,
USA

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Peisheng Xu
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutics Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy 715 Sumter Street, CLS609A Columbia, South Carolina 29208,
USA

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Hong-tao Xiao
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
USA

Conference Speakers
Sabry M. Attia
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology College of Pharmacy, King Saud University P.O.Box 2457, Riyadh 11451,
Saudi Arabia

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Robert J. Shprintzen
The Virtual Center for Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, 8138 Solomon Seal Lane, Manlius, NY 13104,
USA

SESSION SPEAKER
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William D.Graf
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Hartford, Connecticut, CT 06106,
USA

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Gregg W. Crabtree
Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032,
USA

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Sean Escola
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027,
USA

Conference Speakers
Sander Markx
Psychiatry Initiative, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY,
USA

INVITED SPEAKER
Conference Speakers
Samuel H. Yalkowsky
Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, AZ 85721,
USA

Psychiatry

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Xudong Huang
Neurochemistry Laboratory, MGH Psychiatry, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129,
USA

Regenerative Medicine

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Nurul Asma Abdullah
Senior Lecturer & Principal Investigator Bio-medicine Program School of Health Sciences University Sains Malaysia Health Campus 16150 Kubang Kerian Kelantan,
Malaysia

Structural Biology

TRACK CHAIR
Conference Speakers
Danica Zmejkoski
Laboratory of Materials Science, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade,
Serbia

Women's Health Drug Discovery & Therapy

SESSION SPEAKER
Conference Speakers
Zhi Liao
1Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital
China

Drug Discovery in Preclinical Researchs

SESSION SPEAKER
Conference Speakers
Horng-Jyh Harn
Department of Pathology, Bioinnovation Center, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, 707, Sec. 3, Chung Yang Rd. Haulien 970,
Taiwan

Anti-infectives

SESSION SPEAKER
Conference Speakers
Taqdees Malik
Department of Microbiology, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi,
Pakistan

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