Fernando Albericio, PhD
Research Professor, School of Chemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Full Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Email: Albericio@ukzn.ac.za
Omid Akhavan, PhD
Interests: nanomaterials; graphene; biomaterials; cancerp; gene delivery/therapy
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Francesc Xavier Avilés, PhD
Interests: protein/enzyme-ligand interaction; structure-function; drug discovery; biophysics; proteomics
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.
Neal M. Davies, PhD
Interests: pharmacokinetics; pharmacology; toxicology; drug delivery; anti-inflammatory/anti-cancer nutraceuticals
Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences,University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Walter Filgueira de Azevedo Jr., PhD
Interests: drug discovery; protein; machine learning; protein-ligand interaction; computational models
Professor, School of Health and Life Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Beatriz Garcia De la Torre, PhD
Interests: infectious diseases; drug discovery; vaccines; drug delivery; tropical diseases
Research Professor, KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), School of Laboratory of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Marcello Iriti, PhD
Interests: bioactive phytochemicals; nutraceuticals; nutritional therapy; ethnopharmacology; medicinal plants; traditional medicine
Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology at the Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Milan State University, Milan, Italy
Rangasamy Jayakumar, PhD
Interests: drug delivery; infectious diseases; hemostasis; wound healing; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine
Professor, Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kerala, India
Xiqun Jiang, PhD
Interests: drug delivery systems; macromolecular biotherapeutics; antibody-drug conjugates; targeting drug and liposomes
Professor, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering in College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Cheorl Ho Kim, PhD
Interests: cancer biology; cell differentiation; carbohydrate antigen; cell adhesion and angiogenesis; signal transduction
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biological Science, College of Science, Head of Molecular Glycobiology Unit, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Co-positional Professor, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology (SAIHST), Seoul, Republic of Korea
Uday Kishore, PhD
Interests: innate immunity; biologics; infectious diseases; allergy; cancer immunology
Director, Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
Xuechen Li, PhD
Interests: peptide; synthetic protein; antibiotics; glycoconjugates; drug conjugates
Professor of Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Amedeo Lonardo, MD
Interests: NAFLD; NASH; MAFLD; gastroenterology; metabolic syndrome
Professor, Internal Medicine at the School of Specialization in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Francisco Javier Luque Garriga, PhD
Interests: computational chemistry; molecular simulations; biomolecular recognition; protein dynamics; drug design
Full Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Sciences and Gastronomy; Full Professor, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Full Professor, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Stuart Maudsley, PhD
Interests: pharmacology; G protein-coupled receptor; bioinformatics; proteomics
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Giuseppe Murdaca, PhD
Interests: immunodeficiency; autoimmunity; neuro-endocrino-immunology; pharmacogenomics
Associate professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
Juergen Reichardt, PhD
Interests: human genetics; human genomics; biochemistry; pharmacogenetics; molecular biology
Adjunct Professor, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM), James Cook University, Smithfield QLD, Australia
Paolo Rovero, PhD
Interests: bioactive and therapeutic peptides; cosmeceuticals; auto-antibodies
Co-founder, PeptLab Research Unit, Department of NeuroFarBa, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Jean-Marc Sabatier, PhD
Interests: peptide and protein engineering; microbes; drug design; structure-activity relationships
Director, Institute of Neurophysiopathology (INP), Aix-Marseille University, CNRS UMR 7051, Marseille, France
Aamer Saeed, PhD
Interests: synthetic; bioorganic; medicinal; heterocyclic chemistry; natural products; enzyme inhibitors; dyes & pigments
Chairman & Professor, Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Xiangyang Shi, PhD
Interests: dendrimers; polymer nanogels; cancer nanomedicine; drug/gene delivery; theranostics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
Andreimar Martins Soares, PhD
Interests: biotechnological and medical applications of bioactive compounds; protein biochemistry; toxinology; venomic and anti-venomic; snake venoms; toxins
Research Professor, Laboratory of Biotechnology of Proteins and Bioactive Compounds Applied to Health, LABIOPROT, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ, Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil
Felipe Francisco Tuon, MD, PhD
Interests: antibiotics; infections; biofilms; polylactic acid; 3d printing
Professor of Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
Tirayut Vilaivan, PhD
Interests: organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; peptide nucleic acid; molecular diagnostics
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Narendra Vyavahare, PhD
Interests: targeted therapies; heart valve implants; cardiovascular diseases; aortic aneurysms; atherosclerosis
Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
Liang Xu, MD, PhD
Interests: cancer drug discovery; translational cancer; molecularly targeted cancer therapy; drug resistance
Professor of Cancer Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences; Director, Experimental and Preclinical Imaging Core, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
Antonio Zorzano, PhD
Interests: metabolism; metabolic diseases; mitochondrial dynamics; autophagy; insulin resistance
Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona; Coordinator of the Molecular Medicine Programme at the IRB Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Christos C. Zouboulis, MD, PhD
Interests: dermato-pharmacology; dermato-endocrinology; sebaceous gland; acne; hidradenitis suppurativa; adamantiades-behçet’s disease; malignant atrophic papulosis; cryosurgery
Founding Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane; Coopted Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg; Director, Departments of Dermatology and Immunology, Staedtisches Klinikum Dessau, Dessau, Germany
Iqbal Ahmad, PhD
Interests: applied microbiology, medical plants, biofilms, natural and synthetic products
Professor at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Daniel Ahmed, PhD
Interests: micro/nano robotics; microfluidics; acoustofluidics; acoustics; acousto-robotics
Assistant Professor, Acoustic Robotics Systems Lab, Institute or Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Farooq Anwar, PhD
Interests: analytical chemistry; food science technology; pharmacology pharmacy
Professor at Faculty of Food Science & Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Jean-Christophe Cintrat, PhD
Interests: medicinal chemistry; high throughput screening; heterocycles
Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, INRAE, Département Médicaments et Technologies pour la Santé (DMTS), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Alessandro Contini, PhD
Interests: molecular dynamics; protein-protein interactions; quantum chemistry; reaction mechanisms; structure-based molecular design
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz, PhD
Interests: pharmacogenomics; nutrigenomics; pharmacognosy; aging; amazonian phytotherapics
Associate Professor of University Federal do Santa Maria, RioGrande do Sul, Brazil
Ike de la Peña, PhD
Interests: behavioral pharmacology; neuropharmacology; dopamine; neuroscience,
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy, California, USA
Ricardo Sobhie Diaz, MD, PhD
Interests: HIV; virology; infectious diseases; aging; molecular biology
Professor at the Infectious Diseases Department of Paulista School of Medicine at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Ahmed O. Elzoghby, MD, PhD
Interests: nanomedicine; drug delivery; stromal reprogramming; cancer immunoenginnering; tumor microenvironment targeting
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS); Associate Bioengineer, Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA, USA
Ricardo P. Garay, MD, PhD
Interests: aging; clinical trials; therapeutics; pharmacology; longevity
Director of Research at CNRS (French National Council of Scientific Research), Paris, France
