PLENARY SPEAKERS
Ferid Murad
(Nobel Laureate)
The Stanford VA Hospital, Palo Alto, CA,
USA
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
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
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
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
Department of Psychiatry and of Medical & Molecular Genetics, IADC, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN,
USA
Rakesh Kumar
Cancer Biology Program, Rajiv Gandhi Center of Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 695014,
India
Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery & Therapy
TRACK CHAIR
GARTEL, Andrei L.
Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Medicine, University of Illinois,
Chicago, IL
USA
Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy
TRACK CHAIR
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
Heni Rachmawati
Professor
Pharmaceutics
School of Pharmacy
Bandung Institute of Technology
Ganesha 10 Bandung 40132
Indonesia
Ming-Yow Hung
Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City,
Taiwan
Cancer Biomarkers
TRACK CHAIR
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
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
Richard Maximus Fleming
Director and Chair FHHI-OmnificImaging-Camelot.
NV20171338825
El Segundo, CA,
USA
Avishay Sella
Head
Department of Oncology
Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
Zerifin 73100,
Israel
SESSION SPEAKER
Sengottuvelan Balasubramanian
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Madras, Chennai-600025.
India
Daniela M. Dinulescu
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Women's and Perinatal Pathology Harvard Medical
School, Boston,
USA
Chemistry
TRACK CHAIR
Rachid MASROUR
Laboratory of Materials
Processes, Environment and Quality
Cady Ayyed University
National School of Applied Sciences
Morocco
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
Xin Qi
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
2109 Adelbert Road, E516
Cleveland, Ohio 44106,
USA
Emel YILDIZ
Dept.of Chemistry, Arts & Science Faculty, Cukurova University, 01330 Adana,
Turkey
VIPIN BAHADUR SINGH
CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
UDAI PRATAP (AUTONOMOUS) COLLEGE
BHOJUBEER, VARANASI-221002 UP
INDIA
Jinxiang Xi
UMass Lowell
220 Pawtucket St, Lowell,
MA 01854,
USA
INVITED SPEAKER
Nasser Zawia
University of Rhode Island
George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience
Kingston, RI, 02881,
USA
Riqiang Yan
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT,
USA
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
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
Ahmed M. Abdel-Megied
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry,
Faculty of Pharmacy,
Kafrelshiekh University,
EGYPT
Hot Topics in HIV Research
TRACK CHAIR
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
Subroto Chatterjee
Johns Hopkins University, Sphingolipid Signaling Laboratory
Department of Pediatrics-Cardiology Division
600 N. Wolfe Street
Blalock 1385
Baltimore, MD 21287,
USA
Scott t. Handy
Professor of Chemistry
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132,
USA
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
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
Hiroyuki Osada
Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama,
Japan
INVITED SPEAKER
Christian Ottmann
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven,
Netherlands
SESSION SPEAKER
Janos Kriston-Vizi
University College London (UCL), MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, London, UK
UK
Masaya Imoto
Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology Keio University,
Tokyo,
Japan
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
Raphael Stricker
Union Square Medical Associates
450 Sutter Street, Suite 1504
San Francisco, CA 94108,
USA
Yang Jin
Associated Professor
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Boston University Medical Campus
72 E Concord St, R304
Boston, MA 02118,
USA
Pio Conti
Professor of Immunology,
Postgraduate Medical School,
University of Chiti-Pescara,
via dei Vestini,
66100 Chieti,
Italy
Shweta Joshi
University of California San Diego
CA 92103
USA
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
David G. I. Kingston
Department of Chemistry and the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061,
USA
Ramasamy. Rajendran
PG & Research Department of Microbiology
PSG College of Arts and Science
Civil Aerodrome PO
Coimbatore-641014,
INDIA
Xiao-Ping WANG
Director,Department of Neurology
Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital
Shanghai Jiao-Tong University
Wujing Road 85#,Shanghai
PR China
Soobitha Subenthiran
Bioassay Unit
Herbal Medicine Research Center
Institute for Medical Research
50588 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
SESSION SPEAKERS
Xiao-Ping Wang
Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai,
China
Shugeng Cao
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720,
USA
Liva Harinantenaina Rakotondraibe
College of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, The Ohio State University,
USA
Wei Shi
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas,
USA
Nadja B. Cech
Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Innovative Drug Discovery and Nanotechnology
TRACK CHAIR
Teresa Pellegrino
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
via Morego 30,
Genoa, 16163
Italy
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
Rohan Fernandes
Department of Medicine, George Washington Cancer Center, George Washington University,
Washington, DC 20052,
United States
Anna Cristina Samia
Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University,
USA
Rebecca Abergel
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,
USA
Davide Prosperi
NanoBioLab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza
della Scienza 2, 2012, Milan,
Italy
Medical Imaging
TRACK CHAIR
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
Payel Sil
National Institutes of Health (NIH)|
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC,
USA
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
TRACK CHAIR
Carlos H. Serezani
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
161 21st Ave S # D3300,
Nashville, TN 37232,
USA
Pharmaceutical Research & Development
TRACK CHAIR
Kuberan Balagurunathan
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
University of Utah
Salt Lake City UT 84112,
USA
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
Hong-tao Xiao
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,
Chengdu, China
USA
Sabry M. Attia
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
College of Pharmacy, King Saud University
P.O.Box 2457, Riyadh 11451,
Saudi Arabia
Robert J. Shprintzen
The Virtual Center for Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, 8138 Solomon Seal Lane, Manlius, NY 13104,
USA
SESSION SPEAKER
William D.Graf
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Hartford,
Connecticut, CT 06106,
USA
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
Sean Escola
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027,
USA
Sander Markx
Psychiatry Initiative, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY,
USA
INVITED SPEAKER
Samuel H. Yalkowsky
Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, AZ 85721,
USA
Psychiatry
TRACK CHAIR
Xudong Huang
Neurochemistry Laboratory, MGH
Psychiatry, 149 13th Street, Charlestown,
MA
02129,
USA
Regenerative Medicine
TRACK CHAIR
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
Danica Zmejkoski
Laboratory of Materials Science, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade,
Belgrade,
Serbia
Women's Health Drug Discovery & Therapy
SESSION SPEAKER
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
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
Taqdees Malik
Department of Microbiology, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi,
Pakistan
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