Paula B. Andrade, PhD, is the Head of Laboratory of Pharmacognosy of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Porto University, where she teaches “Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy” and “Bioactivity of Natural Matrices” subjects. She is a senior researcher of the Associated Laboratory REQUIMTE/LAQV, heading the Natural Products group. She has more than 25 years of research experience in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. Current research interests are metabolomics (primary and secondary metabolites) and bioactivities (anti-inflammatory and neuroprotection) of natural matrices, including both terrestrial and marine organisms. She authored more than 300 publications in indexed international journals.

Olivier received his Ph.D. in life Sciences at the University of Angers France. He previously gained experience in the analytical field at GSK Stevenage where he implemented analytical methods for the quantification of peptide in biological fluids and at Nestlé Lausanne (CH) where he developed methods for vitamins and natural ingredients analysis in food stuffs. Then he joined Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (Singapore) as the bioanalytical laboratory head. Then as Senior Investigator in DMPK he develops methods for the analysis of large and small molecules in biological matrixes. Olivier published several analytical papers in the field of analytical chemistry.

Sibel A. Ozkan is presently working as a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy. She has been involved in several analytical chemistry projects related to electroanalytical chemistry and separation techniques on drug active compounds and DNA–Drug interactions. Her research interests included analysis of pharmaceuticals with using different analytical techniques. She has published more than 200 original and review papers and two scientific books from HNB Publishing, (2012) and Springer (2015). She is the Editor and Editorial Board Member of the many journals.

Dr. Jouyban is a Pharm.D. graduate of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. He obtained his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical analysis from Bradford University, Bradford, UK in 2001 and now is director of Pharmaceutical Analysis Research Center and Head of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department. Dr Jouyban has published more than 375 papers in peer reviewed journals, a handbook and four book chapters. He is a member of National Board of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and National Institute for Medical Research Development, Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Professor Sanjay Garg is the Director of the Centre for Pharmaceutical Innovation and Development (CPID), at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. He is a pharmaceutical scientist with passion for research and teaching in translational drug development and delivery. His interdisciplinary research is based on the principles of innovation, engagement and translation. With the research team, Prof Garg has published 152 peer reviewed papers, 33 patents, 22 book chapters, edited four books, and completed technology transfers for six products. He has supervised 187 research scholars at levels ranging from early career researchers to undergraduates and including 15 completed and 6 current PhD studentsIn 2015, Prof Garg was honored with Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA) Medal. Some other awards that he has received include Butland Award for Excellence in Research Supervision, Young Pharmacy Teacher of the Year, and Fellowship of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association

Professor Hassan Y.Aboul-Enein is a Professor Emeritus at the Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry Department , National Research Center in Cairo ,Egypt and the Chemistry Department. Professor Aboul-Enein is the author and co-author of over 1000 refereed published articles, 90 book chapters and more than 400 conference presentations. He is also authored and edited 8 books in the field of analytical chemistry. He is an Editorial Board member of 22 journals including Current Pharmaceutical Analysis (Bentham Science Publishers) since 2005.

Prof. Dr. Tomasz Bączek is the head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland. Currently he is also the Vice-Rector for Science of the Medical University of Gdańsk. He graduated the Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdańsk and obtained Ph.D. in pharmaceutical analysis. Prof. Bączek’s main research interest comprises pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, bioanalytics, proteomics, chemometrics and medicinal chemistry. Prof. Dr. Tomasz Bączek is an author and co-author of more than 150 original research papers published in pharmaceutically- or analytical chemistry-related journals.

Roman Kaliszan, Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) since 1998, Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts (PAU) since 2009, Member of the ScanBalt Academy since 2006, Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Vojvodina (VANU) since 2010, honorary doctor of the Medical University of Poznań (2012), graduated with a concentration in Pharmaceutics from the Medical University of Gdańsk in 1968 and in Physics from the University of Gdańsk in 1973. He obtained both Ph.D. (1975) and D.Sc. (1982) in Medicinal Chemistry from the Medical University of Gdańsk, where he is a Full Professor since 1990 and where he was Vice-Rector (1999-2005) and Rector (2005-2008). He authored 2 and co-authored 25 books and 250 full length articles of Impact Factor of ca. 600 points and h index of 48, which got about 8000 citations.

Prof. Mauro Tomassetti, Master Degree in Chemistry (1969) and in Pharmacy (1977). Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' since 2003; already Associate Professor since 1985 to the same University.

He was member of teaching staff of PhD in Engineering and Process.

His research interests are in the development of electrochemical sensors, biosensors and immunosensors working both in aqueous and organic solvents and in their application to environmental, biopharmaceutical and food analysis. He has also interest in thermal analytical studies (TG, DTA, DSC) for the purity control or the characterisation of several materials (drugs, foodstuffs, polymers, etc.) and in the study and characterisation of archaeological finds and cultural heritages, investigated by means of several instrumental techniques of chemical analysis.

Is member of the Editorial Board of Current Analytical Chemistry and Current Pharmaceutical Analysis.

Member of “Centro di ricerche applicate alla Protezione dell’Ambiente e dei Beni Culturali (CIABC) “

Member of “Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati (ISMN)” of CNR

Author of about 506 papers, 243 of which original research paper in international Journals, and about 460 communications to congress, overall in the above recorded fields of research.

Prof. Bazylak received Ph.D. in Food Chemistry from the Technical University of Lodz (Poland) and D.Sc. (habilitation) in Pharmacy from the Medical University of Gdansk (Poland). He worked as post-doc in the Medical University of Lodz (Poland) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). From 2004 he is working as the Associate Professor and Head of Pharmaco-Bromatology and Molecular Nutrition at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). He has published more than 150 scientific publications, edited the 12 special topic issues of international scholary journals and is a member of Polish Herbal Committee, German Society for Medicinal Plants & Natural Products Research and Human Proteome Organization (USA).

Neil D. Danielson has been a professor of chemistry at Miami University in Oxford OH for over 35 years and also serves as co-editor of Journal of Chromatographic Science. He received his BS degree at Iowa State University, his MS at the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D at the University of Georgia with L. B. Rogers as his research advisor. His research direction has always been primarily in separation science, particularly liquid chromatography (LC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), but his work in chemiluminescence is most cited. Neil has directed 27 Ph.D students and 19 MS students, and their research is reflected in most of the approximately 150 publications.

Dr. Alekha K. Dash received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Pharmacy from Jadavpur University, India, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, USA. Dr. Dash is the professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacy Sciences, Creighton University and the holder of the Gilbert F. Taffe Jr. Endowed Chair of Pharmacy. He serves as the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. He has made important research contributions in the fields of analytical method development for complex dosage forms, phase identification and phase quantification in solid matrices, and development and evaluation of novel drug delivery systems.

Dr. Haginaka is a professor of School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mukogawa Women’s University, Nishinomiya, Japan. Prof. Haginaka obtained a Ph. D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Kyoto University. He is an author or co-author of about 300 original papers, review articles or book chapters in the field of Analytical Chemistry and Separation Sciences. His main research interests include: preparation and application of protein-based stationary phases; preparation and application of molecularly imprinted polymers. Prof. Haginaka has been an Editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis published by Elsevier since 2002.

Dr. W Jeffrey Hurst, RFAIC,DAAIM is a retired Principal Scientist of the Hershey Company He is a member of the External Advisory Board of the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science at the Hershey Medical Center, A member of the External Advisory Board of the University of Illinois-Chicago NIH Botanical Center and Serves as Research Associate Prof of Archaeology at the University of New Mexico.He is well published with articles in Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Nikos K. Karamanos is a Professor of Biochemistry & Organic Biochemical Analysis at the University of Patras. He is an advisory board member of FEBS Journal, associate editor of Matrix Biology and editorial/advisory board member and academic editor of several peer-review journals. Dr. Karamanos is the chairman of the series of the Advanced Lecture Courses in Matrix Pathobiology, Signaling and Molecular Targets, and editor of the International book edition: Extracellular Matrix: Pathobiology & Signaling, Berlin/Boston. His interests involve matrix pathobiology, cell signaling, cell functional properties, pharmacological targeting, preclinical evaluation/cytotoxicity and structure analysis with particular emphasis in the role of proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans and matrix metalloproteinases in cancer.

Dr. Kissinger is Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University and the founder and Chairman Emeritus of BASi, which he led from 1974-2007. Professor Kissinger’s academic research has involved the development of liquid chromatography techniques, and in vivo methodology for drug metabolism and the neurosciences. He has published more than 245 scientific papers and is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He recently founded Phlebotics, Inc., a medical device company focused on diagnostic information for intensive care medicine.

Dr. Yuehe Lin is a professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University (WSU). He also holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), conducts research in nanotechnology, particularly development of small-scale devices, materials and analytical systems for biomedical diagnosis, drug delivery and energy and environmental applications. He has ~400 publications with a total citation about 33,000 and h-index 95. He was listed in Thomson Reuters’s highly-cited researchers in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Dr. Lin has over 10 patents. Half of the patents have been licensed to industrial partners for commercialization. He is a fellow of AAAS, Royal Society of Chemistry, and American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

Hans H. Maurer is Professor and head of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Toxicology since 1992. His research focus on analytical toxicology (GC-MS, LC-(HR)-MS) and toxicokinetics (drug transport and metabolism). He has published 300 papers and GC-MS, LC-MSn, and LC-HR-MS/MS libraries on drugs and metabolites. He is board member of over 10 journals. He received the Irving Sunshine Award of IATDMCT (Vancouver 1997), the Alan Curry Lifetime Achievement Award of TIAFT (Melbourne 2003), and in 2007 an Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h.c.) of the Ghent University in Belgium. He was and is executive board member of IATDMCT, TIAFT, and GTFCh.

Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,UNAM and Medical Researcher, Center of Research on Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health

Doctor in Biology (Biochemistry) Faculty of Sciences , UNAM, 1963. Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1963 Doctor Honoris causa, Universite du Paris Xlll, Republique Francaise, Ministere de l'Education Nationale, Academie de Creteil, 1984. Visiting Professor in four occasions, at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego at La Jolla, California, during his sabbatical years, 1964, 1982, 2002, 2005 and Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, at La Jolla, 1986. 50 scientific publications and 16 books.

Dr Papadoyannis is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry. He has 40 years of experience of the research on Analytical Applications of HPLC in the Analysis of Organic Molecules of Biological Significance. He has more than 150 publications in journals and participation in 50 conferences.

Previously, Dr. Papadoyannis served as the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and as the Dean of the School of Science at the same University.

Dr. Tan is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville (Louisville, USA), and an Adjunct Professor of pharmaceutic Sciences in Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications at Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou, China). He received his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at Chongqing University (Chongqing, China) in 2004. His research is supported by the ADA and DOD of USA, and the NSF of China. His current scientific interests are related to signaling pathways and therapeutic strategies in diabetic complications including cardiomyopathy, insulin resistance, stem cell mobilization and ischemic angiogenesis. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and 8 patents.

Bengi USLU is currently a Professor in Ankara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, in Turkey. Her areas of interest are electrochemistry, biosensors, nanosensors biotechnology, liquid chromatography, drug analysis, biological sample analysis, redox mechanisms of drugs, spectrophotometry, validation, separation techniques, method development, research and development. She has published as author or co-author of more than 150 scientific articles and publications. She received in 2008, Ankara University Scientific Support Award, in 2014 Ankara University Scientific Award and in 2015 Academy of Pharmacy Science Award of Turkish Pharmaceutical Association. She has been Co-editor of special issues and reviewer of many scientific journals. She has many chapters in books and translated books.

Dr. Su Zeng is a "Qiushi" Professor and Director of the Institute of Drug Metabolism and Pharmaceutical Analysis, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University. He has been an Editorial Board Member on 8 scientific journals including《Curr Pharm Anal》,《Drug Metab Dispo》,《Phytomed》,《Acta Pharm Sin》, Associate Editor of 《J Pharm Anal》,《J Chin Pharm Sic》,《Chin J Pharm Anal》and《Chin Modern Applied Pharmacy》. Dr. Zeng has a continuous interest in developing analytical methods to study drug metabolizing enzymes and transporters. So far, he has authored more than 100 papers on peer-reviewed journals such as Sci Transl Med, Nat Comm, J Chromatogr A，Anal Chem, Drug Metab Dispo.