Prominent Participants


Plenary Speakers

Ferid Murad (President)
(Nobel Laureate)

The Stanford VA Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Sidney Altman
(Nobel Laureate)

Yale University, New Haven CT, USA

Stuart Schreiber

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University and Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA,
USA

Alex MacKerell

School of Pharmacy University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

Shuji Ogino
USA

Chief, Division of MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston, MA,
USA

Rudolf Jaenisch
USA

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University and Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA,
USA

Steven A. Carr
USA

Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA,
USA

Vladimir Torchilin
USA

Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Kenneth C. Anderson
USA

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215,
USA

Stephen J. Elledge
USA

Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School MA
United States

D.K. Lahiri
USA

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Simon C. Robson

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA

Ali Khademhosseini

Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

S. Samar Hasnain

Barkla X-ray Laboratory of Biophysics, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool,
UK

M.I. Choudhary
Pakistan

H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Thomas J. Webster
USA

Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,

Rakesh Kumar
India

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

TRACK CHAIRS

CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy (Track)

Debomoy K. Lahiri
USA

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

Ricardo Garay
92350 Le-Plessis-Robinson France

Inserm Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue Université Paris-Sud, 92350 Le-Plessis-Robinson France

Drug Delivery & Targeting (Track)

Monika Schäfer-Korting
Germany

Institute for Pharmacy Freie Universität Berlin Germany

Reinhard Neubert
Germany

Institute of Pharmacy Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Wolfgang-Langenbeck-Str. 4 Germany

Sophia Antimisiaris
Greece

Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology Department of Pharmacy University of Patras Greece

Drug Discovery in Preclinical Research (Track)

Istvan Nagy
United Kingdom

Dept. of Anaesth and Intensive Care Imperial College London United Kingdom

Innovative Drug Discovery and Nanotechnology (Track)

Antonino Mazzaglia
Italy

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati (CNR-ISMN) c/o Dept ChiBioFarAm, University of Messina, Messina,
Italy

Pharmaceutical Research & Development (Track)

Rathnam Chaguturu
United States

iDDPartners, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550, United States

Recent Advances in Spectroscopy (Track)

Bagrat A. Shainyan
Russia

Head of Laboratory Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry Siberian Division of Russ. Ac. Sci. Russia

Protein & Peptide Sciences (Track)

E. Brad Thompson
USA

Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, University of Houston, Texas, USA

Proteomics & Bioinformatics (Track)

Fazlul Huq
USA

School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia

Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (Track)

Pierfausto Seneci
Italy

Chemistry Dept., University of Milan, Italy

Hidayat Hussain
Germany

Department of Chemistry Universität Paderborn Warburger Straße 100 33098 Paderborn Germany

Inflammation & Immunology (Track)

Stephen T. Sonis
USA

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA

Genomics (Track)

Vito M. Fazio
Italy

Laboratory of Oncology, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy