Current Medicinal Chemistry
Volume 28, 42 Issues, 2021
ISSN: 1875-533X (Online)
ISSN: 0929-8673 (Print)
This journal supports open access
ISSN: 1875-533X (Online)
ISSN: 0929-8673 (Print)
This journal supports open access
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
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Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS (32052 citations) Honorary Life Fellow Kings College University of Cambridge Cambridge UK Biography Biography of Atta-ur-Rahman
Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Kings College, University of Cambridge (1968), has 1235 international publications in several fields of organic chemistry including, 349 books published largely by major U.S. and European presses. He was elected as Fellow of Royal Society (London) (2006) and won the prestigious UNESCO Science Prize (1999).
Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was conferred honorary D.Sc. degrees by many leading world universities including the University of Cambridge and appointed an Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge. The Austrian government honoured him with its high civil award (“Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007). He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was appointed Academician (Foreign Member) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). He won the “Friendship Award of China” (2014) and was conferred the highest scientific award of China, the International Science & Technology Cooperation Award, by President Xi Jinping (2020). He was bestowed with the International Scientific Corporation Award (2014) and the “Einstein Professorship” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2013). He was also elected as Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Research Institutes have been established in his name in China, Malaysia and Pakistan.
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Honorary Advisors
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John Gurdon (Nobel Laureate) The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge Cambridge UK Biography Biography of John Gurdon
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, FRS, FMedSci, MAE (born on 2nd October, 1933), is an English developmental biologist and is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. Sir Gurdon was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1971, and was knighted in 1995. In 2004, the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer was renamed in his honour as The Gurdon Institute. In 2005, he was elected as an Honorary Member of the American Association of Anatomists. Sir Gurdon was awarded the 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research award, and, in 2014, delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians. In 2012, Sir Gurdon was awarded, jointly with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for, “the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.” His Nobel Lecture was called, “The Egg and the Nucleus: A Battle for Supremacy.”
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Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Laureate) Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoléculaire ISIS Université de Strasbourg Strasbourg France |
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Ferid Murad (Nobel Laureate) Stanford University Stanford, CA USA |
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Richard N. Zare (Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science) Department of Chemistry Stanford University Stanford, CA USA Biography Biography of Richard N. Zare
Dr. Richard N. Zare is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He is a graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA where he received his B.A. degree in Chemistry and Physics (in 1961), and his Ph.D. degree in chemical physics (in 1964). In 1969, he was appointed to a full professorship in the Chemistry Department at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, becoming the Higgins Professor of Natural Science in 1975. Dr. Zare is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level. He has authored / co-authored over 900 publications and more than 50 patents, and has published four books.
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Co-Editors
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Simone Carradori University of G. d’Annunzio Chieti and Pescara Chieti Italy |
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Philippe Cotelle INSERM Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques Lille Cedex France |
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William J. Hoekstra Viamet Pharmaceuticals Morrisville, NC USA Biography Biography of William J. Hoekstra
William J. Hoekstra, Ph.D. serves as Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry at Viamet Pharmaceuticals Inc., Durham, NC, USA. He is the inventor of the Phase 2B antifungal oteseconazole and the Phase 2 anticancer agent seviteronel. Prior to working with Viamet, Dr. Hoekstra held the position of Associate Director in Discovery Medicinal Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline where he coordinated the introduction of a group of nuclear receptor modulator programs into the portfolio. From 1991 to 2000, he directed the discovery and lead optimization of NCEs such as the Phase 2B antithrombotic elarofiban in Johnson & Johnson’s Department of Drug Discovery. He has co-authored over 100 publications, holds 40 U.S. patents, and has presented several invited lectures.
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Massimiliano Peana Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy Università degli Studi di Sassari Sassari Italy Biography Biography of Massimiliano PeanaMassimiliano Peana is assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, where he teaches Inorganic and General Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage. His current research interests are focused on metal interactions with biological targets and molecular mechanisms of metal toxicity, carcinogenesis, neurodegeneration, chelating agents for toxic metals and role of microelements in health and diseases.
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Bernard Pirotte Universite de Liege Liege Belgium |
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Cristoforo Pomara Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia” University of Catania Catania Italy |
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Antonio Scilimati Department of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Bari Bari Italy |
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Eduardo Sobarzo-Sánchez Instituto de Investigación y Postgrado Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Central de Chile Santiago Chile |
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Xi-Ming Yuan Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences Linköping University Linköping Sweden |
Associate Editors
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Wolf-Rainer Abraham Helmholtz Center for Infection Research Braunschweig Germany Biography Biography of Wolf-Rainer Abraham
Dr. Wolf-Rainer Abraham is the head of Chemical Microbiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany. He holds a Ph. D. in chemistry and has 40 years of experience in the discovery of bioactive natural products from microorganisms and plants. His focus is currently on multi-species biofilms and immune cells where he studies the impact of bioactive compounds on carbon flux in the cell using 13C-labeled compounds over time by isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS). He published his results in more than 230 peer-reviewed articles and 12 patents.
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Pier Giovanni Baraldi Universita' di Ferrara Ferrara Italy Biography Biography of Pier Giovanni Baraldi
Pier Giovanni Baraldi became a Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in 1987 at Bologna University and in 1992, he had moved to Ferrara University where he is now a Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry. He has published more than 400 scientific papers including about 50 patents. He has participated in more than 90 Medicinal Chemistry meetings as a plenary speaker. His research interests have been focused on the design and synthesis of minor groove alkylating agents, combretastatin analogs, ligands for Adenosine Receptors, Cannabinoid Receptors, and Transient Receptor Potential channel modulators. He has several scientific collaborations with national and international pharmaceutical companies.
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Susanna Fürst Semmelweis University of Med Budapest Hungary |
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Francis Johnson State University of New York New York, NY USA |
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Alan P. Kozikowski StarWise Therapeutics LLC Madison, WI USA |
Regional Editors
Australia
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Chen Chen University of Queensland Victoria Australia Biography Biography of Chen Chen
After receiving training as a Medical Doctor at the Shanghai Medical School (Fudan University), Professor Chen completed PhD in Neuroendocrinology at the University of Bordeaux, France. He worked in Glaxo Inc., U.S.A. and then the Prince Henry’s Institute, Melbourne, Australia. He has been the head of Endocrinology and Metabolism laboratory at the University of Queensland since 2008. His work was focused on the metabolic and endocrine disorders and published over 180 articles/chapters in international scientific journals. His laboratory has established pituitary hormone analysis in mice, which advances neuroendocrinology research. He has also worked extensively on diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders.
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Europe
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Joaquín Campos University of Granada Granada Spain Biography Biography of Joaquín Campos
Dr. Joaquín Campos Rosa received B. Sc. and Ph. D. degree from the University of Granada. He is now a full Professor of Medicinal and Organic Chemistry at the Pharmaceutical and Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Spain. He has authored 125 publications in international journals. He has written about twenty books or book chapters. He serves as an official reviewer for more than 20 international journals and other different national and international research agencies. He has supervised 13 Doctoral Thesis. He has received regional and national funds to support his work in the fields of organic and medicinal chemistry.
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Southeast Asia
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Lin Sun The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University Changsha China |
Frontiers Section Editor
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Section: QSAR and Cheminformatics approaches
Marcus T. ScottiUniversidade Federal da Paraiba João Pessoa Brazil Biography Biography of Marcus T. Scotti
Prof. Marcus Tullius Scotti studied Chemical Engineering at Universidade de São Paulo (USP - São Paulo University) and finished his degree in 1999. He further started to study specialization in Industrial Administration and in 2003 he completed his post-graduation in Organic Chemistry. He obtained a Master degree in 2005 and PhD in 2008. He started working as Professor of Organic Chemistry at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil. He is presently serving as an Associate Professor of the Chemistry Department of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Prof. Marcus research interests are in the area of chemistry of the natural products, acting on the following subjects: Databases, Virtual Screening, QSAR, and chemotaxonomy using cheminformatics methods. Published 142 papers, 17 chapters book and 157 abstracts in conferences.
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Country Editor
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Donatella Marazziti University of Pisa Pisa Italy |
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Claudiu T. Supuran University of Florence Firenze Italy Biography Biography of Claudiu T. Supuran
CLAUDIU T. SUPURAN is the Professor of medicinal chemistry at the Neurofarba Department, Section of Pharmaceutical and Nutriceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Italy. He has published more than 1250 papers, his Hirsch factor is h = 110; the number of citations since 1995 > 49800. His main research interest is on enzyme inhibitors, and especially carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, of which he discovered several new classes in the last years. One of the sulfonamides discovered in his group entered Phase I clinical trials in 2014 for the treatment of advanced, metastatic solid tumors. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, Current Enzyme Inhibition, etc. For the last 25 years the main interest of his research was focused on metallo-enzymes and their modulators of activity. In 2013, he was rated as the most cited scientists in Pharmacology & Toxicology by LabTimes (LabTimes 2013, 5, 38).
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Section Editors
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Section: Immunology, Endocrine and Metabolic Agents
Vasso ApostolopoulosVictoria University Melbourne Australia |
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Section: Bioinformatics in Drug Design and Discovery
Walter Filgueira de Azevedo JrPontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande Porto Alegre Brazil |
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Section: Targeted Biologics
Stefano BrunoUniversità di Parma Parma Italy Biography Biography of Stefano Bruno
Stefano Bruno graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and technology cum laude in 1998 from the
University of Parma. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemical Sciences from the University of Torino. He was a
research fellow at Oxford University from 2001 to 2004. He became a Researcher at the University of
Parma in 2004 and Associate Professor in 2015. He has taken part in projects funded by the Italian
Ministry for Research (MIUR), by the National Antarctic Research Program, by the US National Institute
of Health and by the European Union.
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Section: Targeted Biologics
Paul W. BuehlerFood and Drug Administration Rockville United States Biography Biography of Paul W. Buehler
Dr. Buehler is a pharmacologist and toxicologist in the Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has more than 15 years of experience as a regulatory researcher in the US FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. An important aspect of Dr. Buehler’s work is to identify ways to slow, reverse or prevent the effects of intra- and extravascular hemolysis induced pathobiology using plasma and recombinant constructs of haptoglobin, hemopexin and transferrin as well as identifying methods to upregulate these proteins in states of acute and chronic depletion.
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Section: Bioinformatics or Computational Biology
Wei ChenChengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Chengdu China Biography Biography of Wei Chen
Dr. Wei Chen received his Ph.D. from Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China in 2010.
Currently, he is a full time Professor of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine. His researches focused on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He
has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals, and serving as
Deputy Editor of Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids and reviewer of scientific
journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics,
etc . His publications have been cited over 7,600 times with H-index of 46 in Google
Scholar (update in August 2019).
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Section: Experimental Medicine and Pharmacology
Salvatore CuzzocreaUniversity of Messina Messina Italy Biography Biography of Salvatore Cuzzocrea
Dr. Salvatore Cuzzocrea is full Professor of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Messina. He completed his graduation in Pharmacy and Medicine and became an Honorary Professor of Pharmacology in the University of Manchester (UK). Prof. Cuzzocrea has received a doctorate (PhD) in “Experimental Medicine” School of Medicine University of Messina. He has authored more than 600 publications including articles in peer reviewed international journals and scientific books. He has served as an Editor and referee for several international journals. He encompasses research activities with specific competences at international levels in the field of autoimmunity, inflammation and neurodegenerative disorders as well as drug development.
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Section: Biomarkers
Patrizia FerroniSan Raffaele Rome University Rome Italy Biography Biography of Patrizia Ferroni
Dr. Ferroni obtained a Doctorate degree in Medicine and the Oncology Residency from the Sapienza University of Rome. She also holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from the same University. Currently, Dr. Ferroni is a Professor of Physiology and senior researcher at the San Raffaele Roma Open University, Italy. Her major scientific interest is in translational research and biospecimen sciences, with a particular focus on human cancer and the use and construction of innovative informatics platforms to improve health care organization and efficiency. Dr. Ferroni has authored more than 200 scientific publications.
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Section: Inflammation
Oreste GualilloComplejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago La Coruña Spain Biography Biography of Oreste Gualillo
Dr. Oreste Gualillo is Ph.D in Pharmacology. Since 2001, he is a SERGAS Researcher and the Head of the NEIRID (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases) group of IDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago) at Santiago University Clinical Hospital . Dr. Gualillo’s primary research was focussed on cartilage pathophysiology and pharmacology. He contributed in defining the molecular signals triggered by adipokines in rheumatic diseases and in the inflammatory response. Dr. Gualillo’s track record of professional achievement is supported by more than 150 primary peer-reviewed publications. He has served as an editorial board member for several scientific journals and committes.
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Section: Anti-Cancer Agents
Wei LiUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN USA Biography Biography of Wei Li
Dr. Li obtained his PhD in chemistry from Columbia University, and currently he is a Professor and the Faculty Director of Shared Instrument Faculty in College of Pharmacy, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He has close to 20 years of experience in small molecule drug discovery for cancer and inflammation. Dr. Li has published more than 120 papers, is an inventor of four issued US patents, and is a frequent grant reviewer for NIH and other government agencies.
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Section: Targeted Biologics
Andrea MozzarelliUniversity of Parma Parma Italy Biography Biography of Andrea Mozzarelli
Dr. Mozzarelli is a Full Professor in Biochemistry, University of Parma, Parma and the Vice Director of the Interdepartmental Center for Food Safety, Innovation and Technology (SITEIA.PARMA), Parma Technopole. He is serving as a Coordinator of the Protein Group of the Italian Biochemical Society. He has served more than forty years in the field of Protein Sciences. His investigations are aimed at understanding of the structure-dynamics-function-regulation relationships for heme-containing proteins and coenzyme-containing enzymes, strategies for protein encapsulation, complementary experimental and computational approaches for drug discovery, development of haemoglobin-based blood substitutes, and application of proteomics to food characterization. He has authored more than 180 papers and three patents, with an H-index of 37.
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Section: Drug Delivery
Ling PengCentre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM) Marseille France Biography Biography of Ling Peng
Dr. Ling Peng is a Research Director at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and a group leader at the Interdisciplinary Center on Nanoscience in Marseille (CINaM). She is working actively in developing multifunctional dendrimers as intelligent nanomaterials for drug and gene delivery, molecular probes for exploring biological events and drug discovery. Dr. Ling Peng has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers, 5 patents and 15 book chapters.
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Section: Chemical Biology
Raffaele SaladinoUniversità della Tuscia Viterbo Italy |
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Section: Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents
Gerasimos SiasosBrigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA USA |
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Section: Inflammation
Giovanni TarantinoFederico II University Medical School of Naples Naples Italy Biography Biography of Giovanni Tarantino
Dr. Giovanni Tarantino, MD, was Born in Avellino (Italy) on September 23, 1946. He received his degree from the Medical School of Naples in 1970. He is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases. He served as a Past Chief of the outpatients clinic of the Department of Medicine for liver diseases at the Medical School of Federico II University, Naples, Past Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine and currently, he is affiliated to the Department of Clinical Medicine of Federico II University as expert in the field of Hepatology and performs senior investigation in the area of NAFLD.
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Section: Oxidative Stress
Andres TrostchanskyUniversidad de la República Montevideo Uruguay Biography Biography of Andres Trostchansky
Dr. Andrés Trostchansky obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay in 2007. Since 2010 he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the Facultad de Medicina. He is Co-PI of the Laboratory of Oxidative Lipid Biochemistry and a member of the Centro de Investigaciones Biomedicas (CEINBIO). Dr. Trostchanksy’s main research is focused in lipid metabolism, lipidomics studies in health and disease, nitro-fatty acids and their biological roles in arachidonic acid metabolism (COX and LOX) and reactive oxygen species (NOX and PDI). He served as a mentor for Ph.D. students in Uruguay and Brazil. He has authored/co-authored more than 50 manuscripts and book chapters on a variety of subject matters. He is among the editorial board of Frontiers of Experimental Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Current Drug Target, and also a Section Editor of Current Medicinal Chemistry.
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Section: Nutraceuticals
X.Q. ZhaHefei University of Technology Hefei City China Biography Biography of X.Q. Zha
Prof. Dr. Xue-Qiang Zha received B.Sc. degree from Anhui Agricultural University in 2001
and Ph.D. degree from Hefei University of Technology in 2007. From 2010 to 2011, he acted as a
postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico. His research
focuses on the medicinal ingredients in foods and Traditional Chinese Medicine, including their
high efficient purification technology, structural identification, and mechanism of bioactivity.
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Editorial Board Members
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Rosa Amoroso University of Chieti Chieti Italy Biography Biography of Rosa Amoroso
Prof. Rosa Amoroso completed her Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (CTF) at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1989. She received her Ph.D. at the Department of Chemistry in Bologna, carrying out a study on asymmetric synthesis of amino acids. In 1994, she was appointed as a Research Associate and since 2001 she is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy of the University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy. Prof. Amoroso has consolidated experience in the synthesis of molecules of pharmaceutical interest, with knowledge of the various synthetic and analytical approaches aimed at obtaining high purity products. Her main research interests are inhibitors of Nitric Oxide Synthases and modulators of the PPARs receptors.
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Firoz Anwar King Abdulaziz University Jeddha Saudi Arabia Biography Biography of Firoz Anwar
Dr. Firoz Anwar did his Bachelors of Pharmacy from Luqman College of Pharmacy, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India in 1996. He then completed his Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Jadavpur University, India in 2002. Since 2015, he has been serving as a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah.
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Giorgio Ascoli George Mason University Fairfax, VA USA Biography Biography of Giorgio Ascoli
Dr. Giorgio Ascoli is a Professor at the George Mason University (Virginia, USA) and founding director of the Center for Neural Informatics. Dr. Ascoli received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, where he mainly studied neurodegeneration. He won the European Phillips Young Investigator Award in 1989 for synthesizing a new organic molecule. Dr. Ascoli is internationally recognized in computational neuroanatomy and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuroinformatics. He is the founder of NeuroMorpho.Org, a collection of digitally reconstructed neurons, and Hippocampal.Org, a portal for information of hippocampal neuron types. His book “Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind” has been published by the MIT Press in 2015.
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Jonathan B. Baell Monash University Parkville, Victoria Australia Biography Biography of Jonathan B. Baell
Dr. Baell is a research-only Professor in Medicinal Chemistry at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. He is also a Director of the Australian Translational Medicinal Chemistry Facility. He is an Australian National Award-winning medicinal chemist with a battery of medicinal discoveries with 40 granted patents and more than 100 publications inclusive of Nature, Nature Chemical Biology and frequently in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. His research interests include high throughput screening library design, hit-to-lead medicinal chemistry, infectious and neglected diseases, epigenetic modifiers, and peptidomimetic design and synthesis. He was the principal architect for Australia’s 370,000 small molecule HTS library. As of 2016, his 2010 PAINS publication in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has already been cited more than 500 times. Dr Baell is also the co-Senior Editor of Future Medicinal Chemistry and Editorial Advisory Board member for Biology as well as Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and Review Editor for Frontiers in Chemical Biology. He is a founding Director of the International Chemical Biology Society, and currently he is the Secretary. He is a Scientific Advisory Board member for TopoGEN Inc. (Colorado) and Regen Biopharma Inc. (San Diego).
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Bimal K. Banik Community Health Systems of South Texas (CHSST) Edinburg, TX USA |
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Janina Baranowska-Kortylewicz University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE USA |
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Daniela Barlocco Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica Milano Italy Biography Biography of Daniela Barlocco
Daniela Barlocco earned her degree in Pharmacy (1969) and in Chemistry (1977) from the University of Pavia (Italy). She became Researcher at the University of Milan, faculty of Pharmacy, in 1980 and Associate Professor at the University of Modena in 1992. She got the title of full Professor at the University of Milan in 2000.
Her main research interests are the designing of small molecules as enzyme inhibitors and the comprehension of the protein-protein interactions.
She has published about 150 scientific papers and several patents. She is on the Advisory Board of several journals.
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Fatima Z. Basha ICCBS, University of Karachi Karachi Pakistan |
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Doris M. Benbrook University of Oklahoma HSC Oklahoma, OK USA |
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Giovanni Luca Beretta Nazionale Tumori AMADEOLAB Milan Italy Biography Biography of Giovanni Luca Beretta
Dr. Beretta is an Assistant Researcher at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan. Dr. Beretta obtained a degree in Biology at the University of Milan, a Ph.D in Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, and a Master in Oncology Pharmacy and Pharmacology. Among the fields of interest of Dr. Beretta are the molecular and biochemical pharmacology of antitumor agents and the strategies to overcome drug resistance. Dr. Beretta has experience in preclinical and translational studies and has participated in the development of novel antitumor drugs and of nanovectors for nucleic acids delivery. Dr. Beretta has authored 71 papers and book chapters.
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Rita Berisio Italian Research Council (CNR) Naples Italy |
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Gildas Bertho Paris Descartes University Paris France |
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Sandip B. Bharate CSIR-Indian Institute Of Integrative Medicine Jammu India Biography Biography of Sandip B. Bharate
Dr. Bharate obtained B.Pharm. from the University of Pune, and then he received M.S.Pharm and PhD degree from NIPER-Mohali (India). He has industrial experience (Dr. Reddy's Lab, Piramal Life Sciences) and has done postdoctoral studies at University of Montana (USA) in the area of neuroscience. Presently, he is working as a Principal Scientist in the Medicinal Chemistry Division of CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine. His current research interests are in the field of medicinal chemistry of natural products to discover new therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. He is recipient of several innocentive awards, and three young scientist awards (NASI, CSIR, OPPI). He is a reviewer for various international journals. He has published 136 papers and has 17 patents on his credit.
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Mariangela Biava Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy |
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Nicholas Bodor University of Florida Gainesville, FL USA Biography Biography of Nicholas Bodor
A Graduate Research Professor Emeritus (active) at the University of Florida, Dr. Bodor has published more than 520 research articles and holds over 250 patents. The soft steroid Loteprednol Etabonate, designed by Dr. Bodor based on his retrometabolic concepts, is on the worldwide market. He is elected fellow of AAPS, APhA, AAAS and AACP, other honors include election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; the Volwiler Award and the AAPS Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award. He is a member of the American Chemical Society’s Hall of Fame, and founded Bodor Laboratories in 2006 in order to further develop his drug design strategies.
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Maria L. Bolognesi University of Bologna Bologna Italy |
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Gunther Bonn University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austria |
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Przemyslaw Bozko Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen Tubingen Germany Biography Biography of Przemyslaw Bozko
Przemyslaw Bozko received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Chemistry, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. He is the Lab head of the Dept. Internal Medicine at Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany since 2012. His research interests include interactions between tumor suppressors and oncogenes, during both tumor, formation and anticancer therapy and infection biology. Besides, he has published several articles in well-reputed journals.
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John B. Bremner University of Wollongong Wollongong Australia Biography Biography of John B. Bremner
Emeritus Professor John Bremner holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Australian National University, Canberra. He was a former Professor of Organic Chemistry in the School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. His research interests cover heterocyclic and medicinal chemistry, including the design and development of new anti-bacterial agents. He has more than 220 scientific publications, and served as an Editorial Board member of a number of journals.
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Catherine Brenner LabEx LERMIT Châtenay-Malabry France |
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Jean Brunel Aix-Marseille University Marseille France Biography Biography of Jean Brunel
Jean Michel Brunel was graduated from the School of Chemistry of Marseille (France) in 1991. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1994 from Université Aix Marseille in the field of asymmetric organophosphorus chemistry. In 1994, he joined the group of Pr. H. B. Kagan (Université Paris Sud) as a postdoctoral fellow working on the enantioselective catalytic oxidation of sulfides. In 1997, he joined the CNRS as Chargé de Recherche and is now working at the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille. His research program is focused on the development of novel classes of antimicrobial and anticancer agents.
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Roberta Budriesi University of Bologna Bologna Italy |
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Terrence R. Burke, Jr National Institute of Health Bethesda, Maryland USA Biography Biography of Terrence R. Burke
Terrence Burke received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Washington (Seattle) and has spent most of his professional career within the Intramural Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is currently a Senior Investigator at the Chemical Biology Laboratory (National Cancer Institute). He has published more than 300 scientific publications and is a co-inventor of 20 issued U.S. patents.
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Anna Capasso University of Salerno Salerno Italy |
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Loredana Cappellacci University of Camerino Camerino (MC) Italy Biography Biography of Loredana Cappellacci
Loredana Cappellacci is Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, since 2007. In 1998, she spent one year as Visiting Scientist at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is author of more than 90 papers published in leading international peer-review journals, 2 International Patents and 2 book chapters. Her main research interests are on design, synthesis and characterization of small molecules as: a) enzyme inhibitors (as anticancer, antibacterial, antiparasitic, and antiviral agents), b) adenosine receptor ligands. More recently, a topic of research is also the characterization and biological evaluation of essential oils and extracts from plants from different countries.
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Gaetano Caramori Università degli Studi di Messina Messina Italy Biography Biography of Gaetano Caramori
Dr. Gaetano Caramori, MD, PhD, is a Full Professor in Respiratory Medicine, at the Dipartimento di Scienze BIOMORF, University of Messina, Italy. He is serving as Head of the Pulmonology Unit at the University Hospital Gaetano Martino, and also Head of the Specialization School in Respiratory Diseases at the University of Messina, Italy. Dr. Gaetano Caramori is an honorary staff member at the Airway Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College of London, UK, since 2001. He has published about 160 articles in International Scientific peer-reviewed Journals, including all the major Journals of the Respiratory System. His research interests have focused on DNA damage repair in the lungs, bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Alessia Carocci University of Bari Aldo Moro Bari Italy Biography Biography of Alessia Carocci
Dr. Alessia Carocci studied Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology, Summa Cum Laude, at the University of Bari, Italy, in 1992. She received her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the same University in 1998. A post-doctoral position and a research grant in Medicinal Chemistry were held by Dr. Alessia between 1999 and 2001. Since 2017, she is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the department of Pharmacy-Drug Sciences of the University of Bari. She is the author of more than 65 papers in high IF international journals and 6 chapters in books. She serves as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Her research interests regard the synthesis of biologically active compounds in antimitotic, antiarrhythmic, antitumor, antibacterial and melatonergic drugs.
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Alessia Catalano University of Bari Bari Italy Biography Biography of Alessia Catalano
Alessia Catalano graduated in Pharmacy (University of Bari), with maximum vote and honor in
1994 and received her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1998. She became researcher in 2002 and
Associate Professor in 2017. She is author of more than 60 papers published in leading international
peer-review journals, in addition to book chapters and poster and oral presentations. She is a peer
reviewer for international journals. Her main research interests are the synthesis and evaluation of
structure-activity relationships of biologically active compounds: antiarrhythmics, antimyotonics,
antihypertensives, antimicrobials and antitumor agents. She is member of the Teaching Committee
for Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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Guido Cavaletti University of Milan "Bicocca" Milan Italy Biography Biography of Guido Cavaletti
Guido Cavaletti graduated in Medicine at the University of Milan in 1984, and specialized in Neurology in 1989. In 1990, he obtained a clinical position at the Department of Neurology of the S. Gerardo Hospital in Monza. Since 2001, he is a Professor of Human Anatomy at the School of Medicine of the University of Milan-Bicocca, where he is the coordinator of the PhD program in Neuroscience and head of the Experimental Neurology Unit. He is a member of the Italian Society of Neurology, of the Peripheral Nerve Society, of the Italian Society for neuro-Immunology and past-president of the Italian Peripheral Nerve Association. He coordinates the activity of the European/US/Australia CI-PeriNomS group on the standardization of outcome measures in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neurotoxicity. He authored more than 230 papers in the international peer-reviewed journals.
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Sebastiano Cavallaro Italian National Research Council Catania Italy |
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Fener Chen Department of Chemistry, Fudan University Shanghai city China |
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Elena Cichero University of Genoa Genova Italy Biography Biography of Elena Cichero
Dr. E. Cichero obtained the degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 2005 at the University of Genoa while in 2009 she received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences. From 2014 she is Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Genoa. From more than ten years she has expertise in molecular modeling and computational chemistry strategies applied to medicinal chemistry. Her research topics include the development of compounds targeting GPCRs, such as cannabinoid receptors and trace-amine associated receptors as well as of drug-like molecules for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. She has authored 60 papers and numerous poster communications.
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Agata G. Copani University of Catania Catania Italy |
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Maria Paola Costi Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Modena Italy |
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David J. Craik University of Queensland St. Lucia Australia |
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Sunliang Cui Zhejiang University Hangzhou China Biography Biography of Sunliang Cui
Dr. Sunliang Cui is a professor in College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University. He got the Ph.D
degree in Zhejiang University, and then worked as postdoc in Colorado University and University of South
Florida. He started his independent research in 2012. He has 15 years of experience in the research of
organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. He has authored more than 40 manuscripts and
10 patents, and currently he is focusing on the drug discovery of antineoplastics and antiepileptics.
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Russell Dahl NEURODON LLC Crown Point, IN USA Biography Biography of Russell Dahl
Dr. Russell Dahl is the CEO and founder of Neurodon Corporation, a pharmaceutical company
developing novel small molecules for diabetes and neurodegeneration. He previously led all small
molecule research at Celladon Corp., where he was responsible for progressing a diverse pipeline
into the clinic. He started his career in industry at Agouron Pharmaceuticals and progressed through
positions of increasing responsibility at DuPont Pharmaceuticals, BMS, Vertex, and Kemia. Russell
has been involved in many successful biotech startups and regularly serves as an advisor and
consultant. His experience spans all phases of drug discovery and development and he has
contributed to several IND filings, clinical candidates, and regulatory approvals. Russell has co-
authored over 90 scientific publications and is an inventor on over 50 patents and applications. He is
a former Professor of Neuroscience and Medicinal Chemistry. Russell received his Ph.D. in organic
chemistry from the University of California, San Diego as a DuPont Fellow, and he has additional
training in molecular pharmacology from Stanford University.
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Silvio Danese Institute of Clinician Humanitas Milan Italy |
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Vincenzo De Filippis University of Padua Padua Italy Biography Biography of Vincenzo De Filippis
Dr. De Filippis is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Padua, Italy, and has received the National Academic Qualification as Full Professor in General Biochemistry. His main scientific projects entail the development of novel anticoagulants and the study of the molecular mechanisms linking inflammation, oxidative stress and sepsis to thrombotic diseases. Dr. De Filippis authored more than 80 publication in peer reviewed Journals (total IF: 300; H-index: 24) and three international patents. Dr. De Filippis is also the Vice-Chair of the Degree Course in the Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technologies, University of Padua.
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Roberto Di Santo University of Rome Rome Italy Biography Biography of Roberto Di Santo
Dr. Roberto Di Santo is Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, School Pharmacy and Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome Italy, and Vice-President of the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society. He holds Master degrees in Chemistry and in Pharmacy at “Sapienza” University of Rome. Prof. Di Santo research is focused primarily on drug design and synthesis of new molecular entities endowed with biological activities. He devoted particular efforts in the discovery of antimicrobial and antitumor agents. Most part of scientific activity is focused on compounds active against HIV targets like integrase, ribonuclease H and polymerase functions of the reverse transcriptase, and protease. He is an author or co-author of books and over 130 publications and patents. Prof. Di Santo is an active member of EFMC and SCI.
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Mehmet E. Duru Mugla Sitki Kocman University Mugla Turkey Biography Biography of Mehmet E. Duru
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Duru, received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Ataturk
University, Turkey. Currently, he is a Professor at Mugla Sitki Kocman University,
Deparment of Chemistry, Turkey. He has over 100 publications in journals and books. His
main research interests are the natural product chemistry, particularly; medicinal mushrooms
and plants with their bioactivities (antioxidant, anticholinesterase, anti-inflammatory, anti-
urease, anti-tyrosinase). And also he has focused on, isolation and characterization of the
bioactive compounds from medicinal mushrooms and plants on publications.
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Sergey A. Dyshlovoy University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg Germany Biography Biography of Sergey A. Dyshlovoy
Dr. Sergey A. Dyshlovoy, Ph.D., D.Sc., trained in Chemistry, Biochemistry and molecular biology in Russia and Germany. In 2012, he completed his PhD in Chemistry, focusing on elucidation of structure and small-molecule marine bioactive compounds showing anticancer activity, from the G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (PIBOC), Russia. He was a senior scientist in both PIBOC and in the Far Eastern Federal University (2012) and currently a senior scientist in the Laboratory of Pharmacology, A.V. Zhirmunski National Scientific Center of Marine Biology. Since 2013, he has been working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Oncology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. He has been a member of the Commission of Experts of the Russian Scientific Foundation since 2014.
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Thomas Efferth Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Mainz Germany Biography Biography of Thomas Efferth
Professor Dr. Prof. h. c. mult. Thomas Efferth is chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
He is honorary professor at the Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, and at the Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China. Moreover, he is visiting professor at the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Thomas Efferth has published >450 papers (Hirsch-factor: 60; citation rate: >15,000. His research topics are n tumor pharmacology and pharmacogenomics with a special focus on chemical entities from natural sources
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Roberta Ettari University of Messina Messina Italy Biography Biography of Roberta Ettari
Dr. Roberta Ettari is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Messina. She is working in the field of protease inhibitors as antiparasitic or anticancer agents. In 2007, she received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Messina. She had various experiences as a postdoctoral researcher: Galway University (2008), Messina University (2010-2011), Milan University (2012-2014). In 2011, she received the “Farmindustria Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry Research. She also spent some research periods as a guest scientist at Merck Research Laboratories (Pomezia), Instituto Grifols (Barcelona), Würzburg and Mainz Universities (Germany).
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Caterina Faggio University of Messina Messina Italy Biography Biography of Caterina Faggio
Since 1991, Prof. Caterina Faggio is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences-University of Messina, Italy.
Her research topics encompass different research fields: effects of environmental contaminants and food additives on salt transports in teleost intestine; cell volume regulation and cytotoxicity in fish intestine, hepatocytes and digestive cell of mussels by the videometric method; mechanisms responsible for the eryptosis (apoptosis of human red blood cells); haematological and serological parameters in seawater teleosts that dwell in different habitats: lake, sea and fish farm; oxidative stress markers and health status in non-target aquatic organisms. She has numerous publications in prestigious international journals. Moreover, she is the President of Messina Section (SIBS), Italian Society of Experimental Biology. She performs referee activity for prestigious international journals.
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Stephanie Federico University of Trieste Trieste Italy Biography Biography of Stephanie Federico
Stephanie Federico is an Assistant Professor in Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Trieste. Her main research interests are focused on design, synthesis and characterization of heterocyclic compounds as ligands for specific target proteins. In particular, she has experience in the development of antagonists for adenosine receptors as also inhibitors of enzymes such as nucleotidases and kinases.
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Marco Fiore Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy Biography Biography of Marco Fiore
Dr. Fiore is a researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Italian National Research Council IBBC- CNR. He graduated in Natural Sciences and in Biological Sciences from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He received his PhD in Medical Sciences from the Psychiatric Department of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Dr. Fiore Potentiated his professional experience at the Institute of Zoology, Oxford University, UK and at the Department of Physiology and Behavior, the University of California at Davis, CA-USA.
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Matthias Gaestel Institut of Biochemistry Hannover Germany |
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Markus Galanski University of Vienna Vienna Austria Biography Biography of Markus Galanski
Prof. Dr. Galanski received a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He holds the position of Associate Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr. Galanski has (co)authored more than 150 publications in the field of bioinorganic chemistry with focus on the development of platinum-based anticancer drugs.
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Roberto Gambari University of Ferrara Ferrara Italy |
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Luca Gentilucci University of Bologna Bologna Italy |
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Gabriele Grassi Universita degli Studi di Trieste Trieste Italy Biography Biography of Gabriele Grassi
Prof. Grassi is Associate professor in Clinical Biochemistry in the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste, Italy; in 2014 he has became full professor. Prof Grassi has 25-years of experience in molecular biology and drug release. He authored 100 papers, 11 books/book chapters and 3 patents. He has been a Visiting Fellow in N.I.H, USA and Scientist Assistant in the University of Tuebingen, Germany. At present, he teaches “Clinical Biochemistry” in the Medical degree course and “Molecular Diagnostic” in the Medical Biotechnology degree course of the University of Trieste. He has also been president of the Master degree in Medical Biotechnology, University of Trieste.
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Cesare Gridelli S. G. Moscati Hospital Avellino Italy Biography Biography of Cesare Gridelli
Cesare Gridelli, MD, is currently Chief of Division of Medical Oncology and Director of Department of Hematology-Oncology at the “S.G. Moscati” Hospital, Avellino (Italy). His areas of expertise are lung cancer and cancer in the elderly. He is deeply involved in the clinical development of new anticancer targeted therapies and immunotherapy. He is the President of the Italian Association of Thoracic Oncology (AIOT). He is the author or co-author of more than 750 papers, of which more than 370 extended papers published in international indexed journals, and as several book chapters. His papers have about 16.378 citations on international indexed journals. Dr. Gridelli has an h-index of 62. On November 2013 the American agency Expertscape (Palo Alto, California) appointed Dr. Gridelli as the top most world experts on lung cancer.
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Clara Grosso REQUIMTE/LAQV Porto Portugal Biography Biography of Clara Grosso
Dr. Clara Grosso earned her degree in Plant Biology from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (2004) and a PhD degree in Biotechnology from the School of Engineering, University of Lisbon (2010). Since 2015, she has been an assistant researcher at REQUIMTE/ LAQV/Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. Her field of research focuses on natural products, regarding aspects like extraction and identification of secondary metabolites and assessment of in vitro bioactivities with emphasis for oxidative stress and enzymes related with Alzheimer’s disease and depression. She is also interested in strategies to deliver drugs into the brain She is a reviewer for scientific journals and author of several papers and chapters in the areas of natural products, nanomedicine and neurosciences. She is also the editor of a book published by Springer, entitled "Herbal Medicine in Depression: Traditional Medicine to Innovative Drug Delivery” (2016).
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Marco Guazzi University of Milan Milan Italy |
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Angel Guerrero IIQAB-CSIC Barcelona Spain Biography Biography of Angel Guerrero
Dr. Guerrero received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona. He has been serving at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona and is currently the Professor of Research and leader of the Chemical Ecology Unit. He has also served as the Head of the Department of Biological Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (CSIC), and as the Councilor of the International Society of Chemical Ecology. He has published more than 180 papers, and is the author or coauthor of 7 patents. He has been serving as a reviewer for a number of national and international funding agencies.
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Yue-Wei Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai China |
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Xiaojiang Hao Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming P. R. China |
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Isabel Haro IIQAB Barcelona Spain Biography Biography of Isabel Haro
Isabel Haro is a Research Scientist of CSIC working at the Institute of Advanced Chemistry in Catalonia. She obtained her Chemistry Degree from the University of Barcelona in 1982 and completed her Masters in Science at the Department of Biochemistry from the same University. In 1985 she moved to the Peptides’ Laboratory of CSIC and completed her PhD in 1988. After a post-doctoral training of two years spent between the CSIC in Barcelona and the Royal Free Hospital in London, she gained a permanent position in the CSIC, in 1990. Since then, she has been working on the use of synthetic peptides in the field of Biomedicine and has published more than 170 articles, 8 reviews, 30 chapters of books and 8 patents. However, she has been the Principal Researcher of 15 research projects and 3 contracts with the industry and has also supervised 12 doctoral theses.
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Laszlo Gabor Harsing Jr. Semmelweis University Budapest Hungary |
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Dominique Heymann University of Nantes Nantes France Biography Biography of Dominique Heymann
After his PhD (1995), Dr Heymann successively was appointed as technician, engineer at the Nantes Hospital (FR), Associate-Professor (2001) and Professor of Histology and Embryology at the University of Nantes (2009). He heads an Inserm research laboratory studying the pathogenesis of bone sarcomas. He has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed publications. Since September 2015, He was the personal Chair of Bone Oncology at the University of Sheffield (UK) where he serves as head of a European Associated Laboratory (Sarcoma Research Unit) Inserm/Univ. Sheffield/Univ. Nantes.
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Paul Hofman Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology Nice France |
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John F. Honek University of Waterloo Ontario Canada Biography Biography of John F. Honek
Dr. Honek is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his B.Sc. /Ph.D. degrees at the McGill University. His Ph.D. research (supervisor: Dr. Bernard Belleau), focused on the design and synthesis of sulfur-based heterocyclic analogs of the anthracycline antibiotics. Postdoctoral research (MIT; supervisor: Dr. Christopher Walsh) explored the enzyme mechanisms involved in microbial methane production. Dr. Honek’s research is focused on the biological chemistry of the carbon-sulfur bond and on protein structure and function.
He is the author of numerous publications including a recent textbook (Biochemical Pharmacology by Palmer, Chan, Dieckmann & Honek, (2012) Wiley-VCH). He is the recipient of the Canadian Society for Chemistry Bernard Belleau Award (2014) for distinguished contributions to the field of medicinal chemistry.
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Seyed J. Hosseinimehr Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran Biography Biography of Seyed J. Hosseinimehr
Dr. Seyed Jalal Hosseinimehr obtained PhD in Radiopharmacy in 2002 from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He is presently serving as a Professor at the Department of Radiopharmacy in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. His Research experiences include Radiation Biology, Radio protective study in animal, Tumor bearing mice, Radiopharmaceuticals and cell culture. He has been recognized with several awards and honors such as Prize for top PhD student, Prize for top researcher, and others. He has contributed more than 170 publications, having citations around 2,958.
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Kurt Hostettmann University Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland |
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Yongzhou Hu Zhejiang University Hangzhou China |
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Bay Boon Huat National University of Singapore Singapore |
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Jamshed Iqbal COMSATS University Abbottabad Pakistan Biography Biography of Jamshed Iqbal
Prof. Dr. Jamshed Iqbal (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz), FRSC is the Head of Pakistan’s finest drug research center CADR at COMSATS University, Abbottabad Campus since 2013. He has completed his early education from Pakistan, while his MS and PhD degree was from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and University of Bonn, Germany, respectively. After doing 2 Postdocs from Germany and China, he opted to serve Pakistan and joined Department of Pharmacy, CUI, Abbottabad Campus. He has innovatory contributions in Pharmaceutical/Chemical sciences. Prof. Iqbal has more than 190 publications (Impact factor >550) in several top international journals and 2 international patents. In 2017, Prof. Iqbal has been awarded PAS-Gold Medal by Pakistan Academy of Sciences.
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Gérard Jaouen C.N.R.S Paris France |
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Wolfgang Ernst Bernhard Jelkmann University of Lubeck Lubeck Germany Biography Biography of Wolfgang Ernst Bernhard Jelkmann
Dr. Jelkmann is the Director of the Institute of Physiology at the University of Luebeck (http://www.physio.uni-luebeck.de/). He received his medical degree in Hannover, Germany. After fellowships in Regensburg, New Orleans (Tulane) and Luebeck, he became a Professor of Physiology in Bonn before he moved to Luebeck in 1995. His research has focused on erythropoietin and other hematopoietic growth factors. He has authored more than150 original publications more than 130 review articles/book chapters and has edited 5 books.
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Mankil Jung Yonsei University Seoul Korea |
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Guoyin Kai Zhejiang Chinese Medical University Hangzhou China Biography Biography of Guoyin Kai
Prof. Guoyin Kai obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China (2005). He worked as a visiting scholar in Brookhaven National Laboratory in USA (2012-2013). He currently working as Professor, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China. Previously worked as associate Professor (2005-2012) and Professor (2012-2017) in Shanghai Normal University, China (2005-2017). Prof. Dr. Kai had more than 100 scientific publications including Metab Eng, Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr, Trends Food Sci Tech, Food Chem, J Agr Food Chem, Food Chem Toxicol, J Exp Bot and PNAS etc. His research mainly focused on phytomedicine, natural product and functional food.
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Huba Kalász Semmelweis University Budapest Hungary Biography Biography of Huba Kalász
Dr. Kalász is a Senior Scientific Adviser in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. Previously, he worked at Yale University and was a Visiting Professor in University of Cincinnati and United Arab Emirates University.
He earned his PhD at the Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary; he was awarded the title of doctor of chemical sciences by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and obtained his medical habilitation in pharmacology at Semmelweis University.
He has authored over 250 papers. His activity covers analytical and preparative scale separations, distribution of drugs in the body and development of novel instrumentation.
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Dongchon Kang Kyushu University Fukuoka Japan |
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Jagat R. Kanwar Deakin University Melbourne Australia |
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Nikos Karamanos University of Patras Patras Greece |
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Khosrow Kashfi The City College of New York CUNY New York USA |
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Michael Kassiou Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Camperdown Australia |
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Saeed R. Khan Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, MD USA |
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Matthew C. Kiernan The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Biography Biography of Matthew C. Kiernan
Professor Matthew Kiernan is the Co-Director of the Brain and Mind Centre - Discovery and Translation. His role is to foster multidisciplinary research across the clinical neurosciences, to improve research outcomes and facilitate the translation of research innovations directly into clinical practice for the benefit of patients and the community
Professor Matthew Kiernan is the Bushell Chair of Neurology at the University of Sydney. He is a Professor of Neurology and Staff Specialist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He is also a Senior Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia.
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Fabian Kiessling German Cancer Research Center Germany |
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Danijel Kikelj University of Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia |
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Thomas Klonisch University of Manitoba Manitoba Canada |
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Felix Kratz CytRx Corporation Freiburg Germany Biography Biography of Felix Kratz
Dr. Kratz is a medicinal chemist with more than 25 years of pertinent experience in the preclinical development of anticancer prodrugs and protein conjugation chemistry. He has successfully transferred aldoxorubicin, CytRx clinical lead compound, from bench to bedside that is based on an innovative drug delivery platform exploiting circulating albumin as an endogenous drug carrier. He serves as an Editorial Board member for Bioconjugate Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Current Bioactive Compounds, and Pharmacology & Pharmacy and has authored approximately 265 scientific publications, book articles and proceedings, and 20 patents/patents applications.
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Vladimir Kren Institute of Microbiology Prague Czech Republic |
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Guha Krishnaswamy Wake Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Winston Salem, North Carolina USA |
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Donald J. Kyle Purdue Pharma L.P Cranbury, NJ USA Biography Biography of Donald J. Kyle
Dr. Kyle is the Vice President, Discovery Research of Purdue Pharma L.P. He has 30 years of experience in the areas of CNS, pain and inflammation. Previously, Dr. Kyle served as Director in Discovery Research at Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation and Scios, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Texas Tech University. Dr. Kyle is an inventor of more than 60 issued US patents and has published nearly 200 manuscripts, review articles and abstracts. He serves on the editorial advisory board of multiple journals for chemistry and pharmacology and is a member of the Dean’s CSLA advisory board at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Edmond J. LaVoie Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy New Jersey USA |
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Enza Lacivita University of Bari Bari Italy Biography Biography of Enza Lacivita
Enza Lacivita obtained her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2001 at the University of Bari Aldo
Moro. She was appointed as Associate Professor in Medicinal Chemistry in 2017 (Department of
Pharmacy – Drug Science) at the same University. Her research activities have been focused on the
study of structure-activity relationships of “drug-like” ligands for GPCRs involved in
neuropsychiatric disorders, such serotonin and dopamine receptors, and in neuroinflammatory
processes. Enza Lacivita is co-author of more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-
inventor of four patent applications. She has been Principal Investigator of several national and
international research projects.
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Antonino Lauria University of Palermo Palermo Italy Biography Biography of Antonino Lauria
His scientific career started in 1996 as Lecturer in medicinal chemistry at University of Palermo. In the first years, he worked on synthesis of heterocyclic compounds with antiproliferative activity. After the experience in USA, where he worked in the research group of Prof A.R. Katritzky, his interests were driven to molecular modelling. He is co-author of 96 papers published on ISI recognized international journals, with H-index 27. He has been involved in several research projects and he has actively participated in the elaboration of several of them. He is expert evaluator for HORIZON2020."
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Antonio Lavecchia University of Napoli "Federico II" Napoli Italy Biography Biography of Antonio Lavecchia
Antonio Lavecchia is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and the Head of Drug Discovery Laboratory at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Napoli Federico II. He received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1999 from the University of Catania, Italy. During his doctoral studies, he conducted research in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota (USA). His research has combined computational chemistry with drug discovery, focusing on cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS diseases. Notably, Prof. Lavecchia is author of more than 120 scientific articles, 3 PCT patents, and 1 book chapter. In 2006 he was awarded the Farmindustria Prize for Pharmaceutical Research.
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Marcello Leopoldo University of Bari Aldo Moro Bari Italy Biography Biography of Marcello Leopoldo
Marcello Leopoldo obtained the degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies (honors) at the University of Bari in 1991. At the same University, he was appointed Research Associate in Medicinal Chemistry (1992) and then Associate Professor (2001). He has received the Habilitation as Full Professor in 2015. He has published 115 papers focused on the development of selective ligands for dopamine, serotonin and formyl peptide receptors. Various selective 5-HT7 receptor agonists have been identified in his lab, including LP-211 which has been extensively used to explore the therapeutic potential of 5-HT7 receptor activation. He is inventor of eight patent applications.
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Hao Lin University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) Chengdu China Biography Biography of Hao Lin
Dr. Hao Lin is a Professor of the Center for Informational Biology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. from Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China in 2007. His researches focused on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals.
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Feng-Huei Lin National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan |
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Vincenzo Lionetti Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa Italy Biography Biography of Vincenzo Lionetti
Vincenzo Lionetti is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Institute of Life Sciences of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy) since 2014. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Bari (Italy) in 1999 and received the Specialization in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2003. He received the PhD in Innovative Strategies in Biomedical Research at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa in 2007. He is a member of the panel of experts of the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.
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Peng Liu Lanzhou University Lanzhou China |
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Xinyong Liu Shandong University Shandong China Biography Biography of Xinyong Liu
Prof. Dr. Xinyong Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong Medical University, in 1984 and 1991, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he worked at Instituto de Quimica Medica (CSIC) in Spain as a senior visiting scholar. He obtained his Ph.D. from Shandong University in 2004. Presently, he is the director of Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Dean of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University. He is currently serving as Editor of the “Journal of Chemistry” and on the editorial board of more than 20 academic journals. In his medicinal chemistry research of antiviral and cardiovascular drugs, he has published more than 300 paper and 6 monographs and granted 34 patents presently.
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Jean-François Liégeois University of Liège Liège Belgium |
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Franco Lori ViroStatics Sassari Italy |
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Liang Ma Sichuan University Chengdu China Biography Biography of Liang Ma
Liang Ma received B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from Chemistry College of Sichuan University. I now focus on the study of medicinal chemistry for kidney diseases and the involved mechanisms. Now I am an associate Professor of Nephrology at the Kidney research lab, Division of nephrology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University. I have authored 80 publications in international journals including J Med Chem, Eur J Med Chem, and Curr Med Chem, so on. I served as an official reviewer for more than 10 international journals. I have received several national funds to support his work in the fields of Nephrology, Medicinal chemistry and Pharmacology.
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Mauro Maccarrone Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome Rome Italy |
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Clementina Manera University of Pisa Pisa Italy Biography Biography of Clementina Manera
Dr. Clementina Manera received her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry and Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from the University of Pisa, Italy. Currently she is an Associate Professor in Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy of the same University. She has authored over 90 publications on peer-reviewed pharmaceutical chemistry journals of international repute. She has over 20 years of experience in research and development of drug candidates for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and anticancer. In recent years, she has focused on the design, synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of modulators of endocannabinoid system and on the development of new analytical methods for the determination of biologically active small organic molecules.
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Ionel Mangalagiu University of Iasi Iasi Romania Biography Biography of Ionel Mangalagiu
Dr. Mangalagiu is a Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry and Vice-Rector of research at Alexandru Loan Cuza, University of Lasi, Romania. Dr. Mangalagiu is the former Dean, Vice-Dean and Head of Organic Chemistry Department at Faculty of Chemistry. He has nearly 30 years of experience in research, focusing in the area of Heterocyclic Compounds. He has over 160 publications, 13 patents and 3 chapters of international books. He was Visiting Professor and guest speaker in prestigious foreign universities such as Ludwig Maximilianus University (Germany), University of Florence (Italy), Universite D’Angers (France) while also being the recipient of numerous prizes and honors such as DAAD and NATO award, Costin D. Nenitescu Medal and Special Award of Croatian Association of Inventors.
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Mauro Maniscalco Hospital S. Maria della Pietà Naples Italy Biography Biography of Mauro Maniscalco
Mauro Maniscalco is the Director of the research laboratory on “Inflammation of Airways” at the Research Institute Fondazione S. Maugeri of Telese and Consultant of Respiratory Medicine at the Hospital of Casoria (Italy). He completed his PhD from the department of Pharmacology at Karolinska Institute of Stockholm carrying out research on exhaled Nitric Oxide. Currently, he is carrying out research on the characterization of biomolecular markers in EBC of patients with respiratory disorders. During his career he has authored more than 80 peer reviewed scientific papers and has served as reviewer for more than 50 peer reviewed medical journals.
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Ana Martinez Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB-CSIC) Madrid Spain |
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Ross McGeary The University of Queensland Brisbane Australia Biography Biography of Ross McGeary
Dr. McGeary is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at The University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. McGeary has authored over 75 publications, as well as 3 book chapters and 11 patents. His research interests encompass the development of new synthetic methodologies and the design and synthesis of potent inhibitors of metalloenzymes.
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Thierry Meinnel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Cedex France |
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Nahum Mendez-Sanchez Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation Mexico City Mexico Biography Biography of Nahum Mendez-Sanchez
Prof. Méndez-Sánchez serves as the Head of Liver Research Unit at the Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation in Mexico City. He has more than 25 years of experience in research in gastrointestinal and chronic liver diseases. Prof. Méndez-Sánchez holds Master and PhD degrees in Medical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Mexico and a postdoc from Harvard University. Prof. Méndez-Sánchez has authored more than 225 manuscripts, 2 patents and an editor of 15 text books on the Gastroenterology and Hepatology fields. Prof. Méndez-Sánchez is a faculty at the National University of Mexico where he teaches in the Master and PhD programs.
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Sergey N. Mikhailov Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology RAS Moscow Russia Biography Biography of Sergey N. Mikhailov
Sergey N. Mikhailov has completed his PhD in 1976 and DSc in1990 from Engelhard Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he was appointed as a head of a Lab at the same Institute. As a Postdoctoral fellow and visiting Professor he worked in the famous chemical Labs of Czechoslovakia, Canada, Germany and Belgium. His research interests include chemistry and medicinal chemistry of nucleosides, nucleotides and oligonucleotides, their biological activity and physico-chemical investigations, substrate properties of these analogs in enzymatic reactions. He has published >250 research papers.
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Ryuichi Morishita Osaka University Osaka Japan Biography Biography of Ryuichi Morishita
Ryuichi Morishita, M.D., Ph.D., graduated from Osaka University Medical School in 1987, and received Ph. D. from Osaka University in 1991. After postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine, he served as an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Osaka University Medical School from 1994 to 1998. Then, from 1998 to 2003, he was the Associate Professor, Division of Gene Therapy Science, Osaka University Medical School. Then, he became the Professor and Chairman of Division of Clinical Gene Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University Medical School from 2003.
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Stefano Moro University of Padova Padova Italy |
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Diego Munoz-Torrero University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain Biography Biography of Diego Munoz-Torrero
Dr. Muñoz-Torrero holds a PhD in Pharmacy (Medicinal Chemistry) from the University of Barcelona. Currently Dr. Muñoz-Torrero is Associate Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry and Vice-Dean of Research at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the University of Barcelona. He has authored more than 80 papers, 9 patents, and 3 book chapters, and guest-edited 5 special issues (Current Pharmaceutical Design, Current Medicinal Chemistry and Molecules) on anti-Alzheimer and multitarget drugs and 5 E-books on recent advances in pharmaceutical sciences. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of novel drug candidates against Alzheimer’s disease, malaria, and trypanosomiases.
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Seyed M. Nabavi Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran Biography Biography of Seyed M. Nabavi
Seyed Mohammad Nabavi is a biotechnologist and senior scientist of Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Science and a member of Iran's National Elites Foundation. His research focuses on the molecular pharmacology of natural products. He is author/co-author of 250 publications in international journals, 51 communications at national and international congress, and six chapters in book series. Seyed Mohammad Nabavi has been selected as a group of scientists recognized as Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics, 2018.
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B. Narasimhan Maharshi Dayanand University Haryana India Biography Biography of B. Narasimhan
Dr. Narasimhan is a Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, India. His key areas of research includes synthesis, QSAR, anticancer and antimicrobial screening of medicinal compounds. Dr. Narasimhan has 160 publications (140 International and 20 National) in SCI indexed journals. He also serves as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer in a number of national and international journals. Dr. Narasimhan is the recipient of APTI-Best Pharmaceutical Scientist Award (2015) and APP-Young Pharmaceutical Scientist Award (2015).
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Orazio Nicolotti University of Bari Bari Italy Biography Biography of Orazio Nicolotti
Dr. Orazio Nicolotti received his Ph.D. in Drug Sciences in 2001 from the University of Bari (Italy).. He then completed his post-doctorate at the University of Sheffield (UK). He was appointed as Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in 2016 at the University of Bari (Italy), where he currently serves as head of the molecular and data modeling laboratory. His research interests are in molecular and data modelling, drug design, QSAR, predictive toxicology, combinatorial library design, evolutionary algorithms, docking and molecular dynamics. He has authored about 90 publications, 4 book chapters and 1 international patent. He is the Principal investigator of several research funded projects and industrial agreements for technology transfer.
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Toshio Nishikimi Kyoto University Kyoto Japan |
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Douglas Noonan University of the Studies of the insubria Varese Italy |
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Milan Obradovic Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinca” Belgrade Serbia Biography Biography of Milan Obradovic
Dr. Milan M. Obradovic is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Radiobiology and Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences Vinca, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Endocrinology from the University of Belgrade. His research interest is in the roles of different hormones in normal cardiovascular biology and in pathophysiological conditions such as obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Milan serves as a member of editorial board and as a reviewer in a numerous scientific and medical journals.
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Yoshihiro Oka Osaka University Osaka Japan |
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Athanasios G. Papavassiliou University of Athens Athens Greece |
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Paola Perego Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Milan Italy |
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Bernard M. Pettit University of Texas Medical Branch Houston, Tx USA |
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John M. Pezzuto Long Island University Brooklyn, NY USA |
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Jens Pietzsch Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research Dresden Germany Biography Biography of Jens Pietzsch
Prof. Jens Pietzsch (Ph.D., M.D.) is the Head of the Department of Radiopharmaceutical and Chemical Biology at the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany. He is also a Professor of Pathological Biochemistry at the School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden. He has more than 20 years of experience in research, now focusing on preclinical molecular imaging of cancer and cancer-associated inflammation. His main topic of interest is targeted radionuclide-based theranostics of malignant melanoma and pheochromocytoma. He has authored of more than 160 articles, reviews, and book chapters. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry, and as Editorial Board Member of Current Medicinal Chemistry, Amino Acids, Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, and Journal of Cellular Biotechnology.
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Piero Portincasa University Medical School of Bari Bari Italy |
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Waldemar Priebe The University of Texas Houston, TX USA |
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Laszlo Prokai University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, TX USA |
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Milica S. Prostran Dep of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade Dr Subotica 4, PO Box 840 Belgrade, 11129 Serbia |
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Carmelo Puglia University of Catania Catania Italy |
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Ricardo Pèrez-Tomãs University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain |
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Giulio Rastelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena Italy |
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Tadeusz Robak Medical University of Lodz Cio kowskiego Poland Biography Biography of Tadeusz Robak
Tadeusz Robak, MD, PhD, is Professor of Hematology at the Medical University of Lodz , and Head of the Department of Hematology at Copernicus Memorial Hospital in Lodz, Poland. He is Chair of the chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) subgroup of the Polish Adult Leukemia Study Group and President of the Polish Society of Hematology. His special interests are in CLL and lymphoma, with particular emphasis on the use of purine analogues and targeted drugs. Professor Robak has been selected by the World Scientists Forum of the International Research Promotion Council for the “Eminent Scientist of the Year 2010” award in haematology-oncology.
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Manuela Rodriquez University of Salerno Fisciano Italy Biography Biography of Manuela Rodriquez
Dr. Manuela Rodriquez has attained a degree of Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry sciences. She is presently serving as an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno (Italy), where she teaches Medicinal Chemistry to undergraduate students. She has contributed more than 57 publications, having citations around 991. Dr. Manuela’s research focuses on regulation of epigenetic post-transcriptional chemical modification, molecular diversity oriented synthesis, microwave-assisted synthesis and total synthesis of pharmacological active natural products as lead compound for drug optimization, and as chemical tools to study dynamic biological processes.
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Giovanna Romeo Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy |
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Vincenzo Russo University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Naples Italy Biography Biography of Vincenzo Russo
Vincenzo Russo, MD PhD MMSc, is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at School of Medicine - University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Monaldi Hospital in Naples, Italy. His research interest are in the areas of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Cardiac Rhythm Disorders, Cardiac Pacing, Clinical Electrophysiology, Syncope, Neuromuscular Disorders, Sudden Death, and Hematological Disorders.
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Patrizia Russo IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana Rome Italy |
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Agapios Sachinidis Institute of Neurophysiology Cologne Germany |
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Satyajit Dey Sarker Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool United Kingdom Biography Biography of Satyajit Dey Sarker
Professor Satyajit Sarker is the Director of School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Professor of Pharmacy and leads the Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products Research Group. He has years of experience in research on various aspects of bioactive natural products. He has authored over 400 publications, including popular books like, Natural Products Isolation, and Chemistry for Pharmacy Students, the latter is also translated into Greek, Japanese and Portuguese languages. He is the Vice-President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe, and the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis. He serves in the Editorial Boards of several journals.
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Moshe Schaffer Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beersheba Israel |
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Helmut Schmidhammer University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austria Biography Biography of Helmut Schmidhammer
Dr. Schmidhammer is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has more than 35 years of experience in drug discovery and development of medications aimed to treat neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g. pain, addicition, depression, anxiety, epilepsy) and immunological diseases. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA and other research institutions worldwide. Dr. Schmidhammer has authored more than 130 original research articles, 9 book chapters and 21 patents. The scientific achievements of Dr. Schmidhammer have been recognized by many grants, several honors and awards.
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Alessandro Serretti University of Bologna Bologna Italy Biography Biography of Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Bologna University, Italy. He is a Coordinator of a research unit active in genetic and clinical studies of major psychoses. Alessandro Serretti has authored more than 480 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals with an H-Index of 66. He has served as a reviewer and editorial board member of 170 journals and funding agencies.
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Rafael Simó Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (VHIR) Barcelona Spain |
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Mikhail Soloviev Royal Holloway University of London Surrey UK Biography Biography of Mikhail Soloviev
Mikhail Soloviev received an MSc in Molecular Biology in and Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1996. He conducted his research in the MRC Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Cambridge and since 1993 at the Royal Free Hospital London. In 1997 he joined MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit Oxford, to work on the biology of metabotropic glutamate receptors. In 2001 he joined Oxford Glycosciences Ltd, as Head of Protein Assays, to develop affinity proteomics technologies and to enhance cancer biomarker discovery platform. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London. His main research interests include (i) Rational engineering of therapeutic and stimuli-responsive proteins and (ii) Molecular biomarkers of cancer. Analytical Biochemistry and Nanobiotechnology have been long-term research passion.
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David S. Soriano University of Pittsburgh-Bradford Bradford, PA USA |
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Caroline J. Springer Inst. of Cancer Research Surrey UK |
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Tatjana P. Stanojković Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia Belgrade Serbia Biography Biography of Tatjana P. Stanojković
Tatjana Stanojković was born in Belgrade on June 26, 1966. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Belgrade, Department of Molecular Biology and Physiology. She has been employed at the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia since 1997, since July 2014, as head of the Department of Biological Response Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology. Field of expertise: Experimental oncology, Medicinal Chemistry, in vitro investigation of the anticancer activity of novel synthesized compounds, natural product and marine organisms. Member of the Editorial Board, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine since 2012.
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Holger Stark Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Germany |
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Gabriele Stocco Università di Trieste Trieste Italy Biography Biography of Gabriele Stocco
Gabriele Stocco is Assistant Professor in Pharmacology at the University of Trieste since 2012. His research interest focuses on translational studies on pharmacogenetics and therapy personalization of antimetabolites and biologics used in chronic and oncologic pediatric diseases. Gabriele Stocco has received a degree in Medicinal Chemistry with honors from the University of Trieste, a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Trieste and a doctoral and post-doctoral training from St.Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, USA, where he attended in 2003 and from 2006 to 2011 the laboratory of prof. William Evans. His scientific effort has been witnessed by more than 50 scientific publications.
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Juan Carlos Stockert University of Madrid Madrid Spain Biography Biography of Juan Carlos Stockert
Dr. Stockert has received a Physician degree and MD degrees (Buenos Aires, UBA, and Autonomous University of Madrid). He was awarded with doctorates Honoris causa (University of Río Cuarto and UBA), and research fellowships from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
Dr. Stockert belongs to the Editorial Board of Acta Histochemica, Biotechnic and Histochemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, and Internacional Journal of Biomedical Science. His principal research lines are fluorescence histochemistry, organelle labeling, and photodynamic therapy. He has published 323 papers on the above fields, and supervised 12 doctoral thesis.
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Nikos Tagmatarchis Institute of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Athens Greece Biography Biography of Nikos Tagmatarchis
Nikos Tagmatarchis is a Deputy Director in the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, in Athens, Greece. He has studied chemistry and received his PhD from the Chemistry Department, University of Crete, Greece (1997). Dr. Tagmatarchis accomplishments are reflected in over 180 scientific peer-reviewed research articles, while his work has been cited more than 8200 times associated with an h-index of 37. He has been the recipient of the European Young Investigator Award (2004), Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011-2012) and Invited Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Japan (2013-2014).
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Igor V. Tetko Institute of Bioinformatics Neuherberg Germany Biography Biography of Igor V. Tetko
Dr. Igor V. Tetko obtained his MSc degree (with honor) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (USSR), received his PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and Habilitation in Chemoinformatics from the University of Strasbourg. He is group leader of Chemoinformatics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany where he coordinates Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) “Big Data in Chemistry”. Dr. Tetko is also the CEO of BIGCHEM GmbH, which develops and licenses software technologies for big data analysis in chemistry and life sciences. Dr. Tetko is on the list of The Most Cited Researchers in Computer Sci. & Eng.
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Dimitris Tousoulis Hippokration General Hospital Athens Greece |
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Jakob Troppmair Innsbruck Medical University Innsbruck Austria |
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Petri A. Turhanen University of Eastern Finland Kuopio Finland Biography Biography of Petri A. Turhanen
Dr. Petri Turhanen, Ph.D, is university researcher at University of Eastern Finland (UEF), School of Pharmacy. He received M.Sc. in organic chemistry at University of Jyväskylä in 1997 and Ph.D. in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry at University of Kuopio in 2003. His scientific interests are focused on synthetic chemistry with green chemistry aspect; mainly on organophosphorus chemistry (like bisphosphonates and ATP analogues) and novel applications of prepared compounds. Dr. Turhanen has authored more than 50 publications and conference presentations being a main author in most of them, he also has 2 patents.
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John Varghese Drug Discovery Laboratory UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Dolores Viña Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Galicia Spain Biography Biography of Dolores Viña
Dr. Dolores Viña is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2003 at the same University. She did postdoctoral training in nucleoside chemistry at the Rega Institute KU Leuven, Belgium. She was appointed as Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2005) at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her research activities are currently focused on combining the study of cellular and molecular pharmacology and medical chemistry in order to design and develop new drugs against neurodegenerative disorders, with emphasis on those in which oxidative stress plays a fundamental role such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Dr. Viña is co-author of more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-inventor of two patent applications.
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Nicola Volpi University of Modena & Reggio Emilia Modena Italy |
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Wei Wang Hunan University of Chinese Medicine Changsha China |
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John S. Williamson Colorado State University Pueblo, CO USA |
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Zbigniew J. Witczak Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA |
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Yung H. Wong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong |
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Jun Xu Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou China Biography Biography of Jun Xu
Dr. Xu is a Professor & Founding Director of Research Center for Drug Discovery at the Sun Yat-Sen University. He has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, practicing medicinal chemistry, chemoinformatics and computer-aided drug design in the fields of discovering anti-infectious, and anti-metabolic syndrome agents. Previously, Dr. Xu served as the Director of CADD at DPI/Biofocus, Principal scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., R&D director at BIO-RAD Sadtler Division. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Science & Technology of China. He has authored more than 80 publications and 10 patents. Dr. Xu is also an adjunct Professor of University of Pittsburgh and Melboune RMIT University. With nearly 50 scientists, his labs are facilitated for herbal medicine studies, structure biology, pharmacology, and high performance computing.
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Paul Zarogoulidis Pulmonary Department `Bioclinic` Private Clinic Thessaloniki Greece Biography Biography of Paul Zarogoulidis
Dr. Pavlos Zarogoulidis, M.D, Ph. D Director of Pulmonary Department, Bioclinic Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece has a MS.c in "drug, design, development and
therapy" and his Ph. D is regarding inhaled chemotherapy for lung cancer. He is a member of
the European Respiratory Society (ERS), American Thoracic Society (ATS),
European Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (EABIP),
and more. He is an editor in "Journal of Thoracic Disease", editor in "Translational Lung Cancer Research", editor in "Journal of Nanomedicine and
Biotherapeutic Discovery" and many more. He has more than 369
publications. He is a junior lecturer of pulmonary oncology for the past four years in the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Peng Zhan Shandong University Jinan China Biography Biography of Peng Zhan
Dr. Peng Zhan is currently working as Associate Professor in Shandong University. In 2012, he was appointed as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan. His research area involves discovery of novel antiviral anticancer and neurodegenerative diseases-related agents based on the rational drug design approaches. So far, he has published more than 100I academic papers, more than 20 patents as co-inventor, and received the first prize of Shandong Province Science (2010), CPA-Servier Young Investigator Awards in Medicinal Chemistry (2016), and and many other honors and awards.
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Ning Zhang Tianjin University Tianjin China Biography Biography of Ning Zhang
Ning Zhang graduated from Nankai University, China, and received his Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics in 2010. He worked as a post-doctor in Nankai University from 2011 to 2012, and as a visiting scholar in Griffith University, Australia from 2016 to 2017. Now he is an associate professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University. His interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, system biology, biomedical imaging analysis, database, and software design. He has published over 60 research papers in outstanding journals, and was evaluated as "Top 1%" highest cited Chinese author in Biology field by Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, in 2015.
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Yongmin Zhang Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris France |
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Ao Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shanghai China Biography Biography of Ao Zhang
Professor Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in 2000, and completed Postdoctoral research from Georgetown University and Harvard Medical School during 2002-2004. He was promoted to Instructor of Harvard Medical School in 2004 and received Alfred Pope Young Investigator and Adam Corneel Young Investigator awards. In 2006, he received the Hundred Talent Project award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became the Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM). In 2011, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Investigator award from the Chinese Natural Science Foundation. He has authored or co-authored over 110 publications and 40 patents. Several drug candidates from his research group are now under clinical or preclinical studies.
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Ruiwen Zhang Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Amarillo, TX USA Biography Biography of Ruiwen Zhang
Professor Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in 2000, and completed Postdoctoral research from Georgetown University and Harvard Medical School during 2002-2004. He was promoted to Instructor of Harvard Medical School in 2004 and received Alfred Pope Young Investigator and Adam Corneel Young Investigator awards. In 2006, he received the Hundred Talent Project award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became the Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM). In 2011, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Investigator award from the Chinese Natural Science Foundation. He has authored or co-authored over 110 publications and 40 patents. Several drug candidates from his research group are now under clinical or preclinical studies.
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Wen Zhang Second Military Medical University Shanghai China |
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Raffaele Pezzani University of Padova Padova Italy Biography Biography of Raffaele Pezzani
Prof. Raffaele Pezzani is a biologist and a physician with a PhD in Neuroscience at the University
of Padova, Italy. He has over 50 scientific publications that have more than 640 citations. He has
been serving as an editorial board member and as an editor of reputed impacted journals. He is
the principal investigator of his research group in Padova, having a long lasting and valid
experience (more than 20 years) in biology and medicine.
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Mirjana Čolović University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia Biography Biography of Mirjana Čolović
Dr. Mirjana B. Čolović, a research associate, employed at University of Belgrade, Serbia, from 2005. Her research activities are in the field of enzymology, toxicology, biosensors, physiologically active compounds and their interaction with biomolecules. She has published 36 papers in impacted international journals, 4 chapters in books, 3 articles in national scientific journals, and over 60 abstracts in international and national scientific meetings. She served as a reviewer in over 20 international journals and 9 international projects.
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Ecaterina Andronescu Politehnica University of Bucharest Bucharest Romania |
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Pankaj Attri Kyushu University Fukuoka Japan Biography Biography of Pankaj Attri
Dr. Pankaj Attri is an Associate Professor at the Center of Plasma Nano-Interface Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. Dr. Attri obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India, in 2013. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Biological Physics and in Plasma Bioscience research center, Kwangwoon University, Korea, from 2013-2017. Dr. Attri has received many honors such as long term fellowship at Kyushu University, Japan, in 2016. Dr. Attri is the author of more than 90 publications and 8 book chapters of reputed publishers and has earned 4 Patents. Dr. Attri is currently working as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports Journal in Chemical Physics panel.
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Anna Bersano Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta Milan Italy |
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Rodrigo V. Báez Canada-University of Toronto Toronto Canada Biography Biography of Rodrigo V. Báez
Dr. Rodrigo Valenzuela Báez is an Associate Professor at the University of Chile. He completed his PhD at the Department of Nutrition, University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include lipids in foods, diet induced obesity and liver steatosis models, cytoprotective effect of bioactive compounds, clinical trials related with fatty acid metabolism and dairy products in human nutrition. Dr. Rodrigo Valenzuela has authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and in 15 books of diverse topics.
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Schcolnik Cabrera Université de Montréal Montréal Canada |
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Gaetano Caramori University of Messina Messina Italy Biography Biography of Gaetano Caramori
Dr. Gaetano Caramori, MD, PhD, is a Full Professor in Respiratory Medicine, at the Dipartimento di Scienze BIOMORF, University of Messina, Italy. He is serving as Head of the Pulmonology Unit at the University Hospital Gaetano Martino, and also Head of the Specialization School in Respiratory Diseases at the University of Messina, Italy. Dr. Gaetano Caramori is an honorary staff member at the Airway Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College of London, UK, since 2001. He has published about 160 articles in International Scientific peer-reviewed Journals, including all the major Journals of the Respiratory System. His research interests have focused on DNA damage repair in the lungs, bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Guido Crisponi University of Cagliari Cagliari Italy Biography Biography of Guido Crisponi
Dr. Guido Crisponi is a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Cagliari University, Italy. The majority of Dr. Crisponi works deal with analytical studies on the distribution of toxic elements in various human tissues, solution equilibria studies on the interaction between metal ions and bio-molecules by potentiometric, spectrophotometric and NMR techniques. In the last twenty years, his research group has been mainly involved in studies concerning chelation therapy to treat the toxic effects of metal ions in humans. He is a member of the Editorial Board of various international journals and is the author of more than 170 publications.
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Xianting Ding Jiao Tong University Shanghai China Biography Biography of Xianting Ding
Dr. Xianting Ding is a Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering and is the Deputy Director of Institute for Personalized Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His research interests are single cell protein analysis, personalized medicine with trace clinical specimens and portable bio-sensors with microfluidics. He participated in the early development of 3 multi-million-USD international research centers. He is part of the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports and SLAS Technology (JALA) and is the reviewer for 20 SCI journals. Dr. Xianting Ding is the author of 90 peer-reviewed SCI papers and has filed 30 national and international patents.
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Ali H. Eid American University of Beirut Beirut Lebanon |
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Hao Lin University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) Chengdu China Biography Biography of Hao Lin
Dr. Hao Lin is a Professor of the Center for Informational Biology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. from Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China in 2007. His researches focused on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals.
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Kuen-Song Lin Yuan Ze University Taoyuan City Taiwan Biography Biography of Kuen-Song Lin
Dr. Kuen-Song Lin is a Senior Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. He is also the Director of Environmental Technology Research Centre (ETRC) and the Dean of Research and Development (R&D office) in Yuan Ze University. His research topics include waste reutilization, on-site soil and water pollution remediation, environmental and photocatalytic catalyst preparation technologies, hydrogen storage, carbon capture and sustainable energy generation. Dr. Lin has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
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Donatella Marazziti University of Pisa Pisa Italy |
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Fabrizio Montecucco University of Genoa Genoa Italy |
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Massimo Pancione University of Sannio Benevento Italy Biography Biography of Massimo Pancione
Massimo Pancione received his B.A. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Sannio (Italy). He completed his research training at National Research Council (Italy) and the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (Spain), working on mice models of intestinal disease and cancer. He is currently a Researcher of Molecular Biology and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Signal Transduction at the Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, Italy. In recent years, his research has focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which cancer cells of aggressive human tumors grow and remain hidden to metastasize in other organs.
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Fernando T. Pazos Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla Cantabria Spain |
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Jelena Popovic-Djordjevic University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia Biography Biography of Jelena Popovic-Djordjevic
Dr. Jelena Popović-Djordjević is a Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the University of Belgrade, where she received her B.A. degree in Applied Chemistry and her Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry in 2010. She is the author of more than 150 publications in leading international peer-reviewed journals, 2 book chapters and 40 papers on the international and national conferences. Her main research is related to Natural Products, Biological activity of Natural and Synthetic Compounds, Food Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry. She is a member of the Serbian Chemical Society, the Serbian Water Protection Society and the Editorial board member of Ecological Safety and Balanced Use of Resources.
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Christos Savopoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece Biography Biography of Christos Savopoulos
Dr. Christos Savopoulos received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He currently serves as a Professor of Internal Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and also as the Head of the first Medical Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine at AHEPA University Hospital. He was one of the principal establishers of a Stroke Unit in the University Hospital of AHEPA, Thessaloniki, Greece, and thereafter the Head of this Stroke Unit. He is a member of 17 Greek and International Medical Scientific Societies, Associations and Working Groups. Dr. Christos Savopoulos has authored about 140 publications in international journals and 27 book chapters.
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Xinhua Shu Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow Scotland Biography Biography of Xinhua Shu
Dr. Xinhua Shu is an Associate Professor at Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. He received his PhD in Pathobiology from the Hunan Medical University, China, in 1999. He received the honor of Fellowship at the University of Glasgow (1999-2001), Scotland, where he worked on the Human Pathogen Paracoccidioides Brasiliensis. In 2001, he was appointed at MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, Scotland, to work as an Investigator Scientist for five years and then Senior Investigator Scientist. His research interests are Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinal diseases, the Disease Mechanisms of Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and age related macular degeneration (AMD). Dr. Shu has about 110 publications.
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Chuanling Si Tianjin University of Science & Technology Tianjin China |
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Tatjana P. Stanojković Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia Belgrade Serbia Biography Biography of Tatjana P. Stanojković
Tatjana Stanojković was born in Belgrade on June 26, 1966. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Belgrade, Department of Molecular Biology and Physiology. She has been employed at the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia since 1997, since July 2014, as head of the Department of Biological Response Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology. Field of expertise: Experimental oncology, Medicinal Chemistry, in vitro investigation of the anticancer activity of novel synthesized compounds, natural product and marine organisms. Member of the Editorial Board, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine since 2012.
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Jacopo Troisi University of Salerno Salerno Italy Biography Biography of Jacopo Troisi
Dr. Jacopo Troisi is Adjunct Professor for Ph.D programme in translational medicine at Salerno University (Italy). He is a research scientist and COO at the European Biomedical Research Institute of Salerno (EBRIS), co-founded by the Harvard University and the Salerno Medical School. He is also co-founder and CEO at Theoreo srl, a spin-off company of the University of Salerno. Dr. Troisi research is related to metabolomics. In particular, he is studying the metabolomic fingerprint of several human disease as a diagnostic tool and as a mechanistic hypothesis generator. He got several international patents and awards for diagnostic tests based on metabolomic profiling.”
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C-M. Tzeng Xiamen University Xiamen China Biography Biography of C-M. Tzeng
Dr. Chi-Meng Tzeng is a Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Xiamen University, China. He served the Chinese military as an MD Captain in Tri-Service General Hospital (1993-1995). He then received graduated training in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology from Stanford University Medical School, USA, (1995-2000). Dr. Tzeng was appointed as principal Investigator in Medical R&D and industrialization at Academic Sinica (Taiwan) and at National Taiwan University Hospital (2000-2005). His research interests include Translational Medicine among Liquid Biopsy, Microbiota, Neoantigen, Immune-Cell Therapy, AI-Big Data, Herbal Medicine and Combination Theranostics. Dr. Tzeng has authored over 60 SCIs, 4 book chapters, and 13 patents and is also responsible for 14 commercial products, IVDs, supplements and medication.
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Yun-Long Wu Xiamen University Xiamen China Biography Biography of Yun-Long Wu
Dr. Wu’s current research interests focus on the development of functional polymeric materials for pharmaceutical applications in terms of controllable drug delivery or gene delivery, with over 70 publications on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Adv. Mater., Small, Adv. Healthcare Mater., Biomacromolecules etc and personal H-index of 25 (Google Scholar).
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Kang Xu Hubei University of Chinese Medicine Wuhan China Biography Biography of Kang Xu
Dr. Kang Xu received his M.M. degree from Hubei University of Chinese Medicine and his Ph.D. degree from Chongqing University, China. He studied Stem Cell Engineering and Molecular Therapy as a researcher in University of California, USA. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Professor at the Hubei University of Chinese Medicine. His research interests are Chemical Based Therapeutic Mechanism on Cardiovascular Diseases, Anti-Inflammation Activity on Arthritis of Natural Synthesized Compounds, Wound Repair and Regeneration. Dr. Kang Xu is the author of over 30 publications on Phytotherapy research, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Cell Proliferation, Wound Repair, Regeneration and Pharmaceutical Biology.
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Peng Zhan Shandong University Jinan China Biography Biography of Peng Zhan
Dr. Peng Zhan is currently working as Associate Professor in Shandong University. In 2012, he was appointed as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan. His research area involves discovery of novel antiviral anticancer and neurodegenerative diseases-related agents based on the rational drug design approaches. So far, he has published more than 100I academic papers, more than 20 patents as co-inventor, and received the first prize of Shandong Province Science (2010), CPA-Servier Young Investigator Awards in Medicinal Chemistry (2016), and and many other honors and awards.
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Kun Zhang Tongji University School of Medicine Shanghai China Biography Biography of Kun Zhang
Prof. Kun Zhang is a Research Fellow and a PhD advisor who comes from Shanghai Tenth Peoples’ Hospital. Nowadays, he is the Deputy Director of Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University, School of Medicine. He has published 18 SCI papers as the first author or corresponding author in different journals. He has been chosen as the reviewer of some top journals including Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials Advanced Sciences, Biomaterials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Theranostics. He is also elected as the members or committee members of several academic organizations. He is engaged in molecular imaging and corresponding probe design involving MRI, fluorescence imaging and ultrasound imaging as well as multi-modal imaging, and he is also an expert in immunotherapy, gene editing, tumour microenvironment modulation & monitoring, regenerative medicine, nanomedicine and interdisciplinary research.
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