Sudhakar Akulapalli is a Director of Cell Signaling and Tumor Angiogenesis Laboratory Boys Town National Research Hospital Omaha NE USA Clinical Professor Creighton University and Nebraska Medical Center He did his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School Boston USA 2003 He has received PhD 2001 MPhill 1997 and MSc1995 degrees in life sciences from University of Hyderabad; and BSc in Biology from SK University 1993 from India He was received President’s fellowship GATE and CSIR fellowships from government of India He received Mahindra Mahindra Travel Award and YCS Award from FAMRI He received BioBio Young Scientist Award from OMICS and RO1 grant award from NIH/NCI He is serving as AIBS/NIHGrant reviewer He has published more than 30 research articles including Science JCI Cancer Cell PNAS Blood ect He is serving as an Executive Editor and editorial board member of reputed journals and serving as reviewer of 20 scientific journals

Extracellular matrix and Integrin Signaling Biology and significance of type IV collagen derived angioinhibitors Endogenous angioinhibitors role in Cancer and tumor microenvironment Hypoxic tumorangiogenesis Mechanism of endothelial apoptosis Bioequivalence & Bioavailability of endogenous circulating angioinhibitors He is serving as an editorial board member of reputed.

DrJian Li is a Principal Scientist at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Monash University in Melbourne Australia He received his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences and microbiology from the University of South Australia 19992002 in Adelaide He has an internationally recognized track record in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of polymyxins He has published 55 papers in peerreviewed journals Dr Li is serving as an Associate Editor of BMC Microbiology and an editorial board member of another 3 journals He is an invited reviewer for 31 international journals His research is supported by Australian government eg National Health and Medical Research Council American National Institutes of Health NIH and pharmaceutical companies

Dr Li s main areas of research interest are: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of polymyxins Discovery of novel antimicrobials, including new peptides against polymyxin-resistant pathogens Antimicrobial chemotherapy against Gram-negative superbugs, particularly Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella pneumoniae

He had served as Global Head of Drug Discovery and Development Statistics and Information Sciences with responsibility in managing 7 information science groups in the field of Systems Biology Genomics Assay development Chemoinformatics and Tox/ADME statistics Prior to the management role he was a senior research scientist at Lilly leading the protein kinase/phosphatase crystal structure platform He is one of the major contributors of the clinical candidate for cell cycle kinase inhibitors Dr Zhang was also pointed as project coordinator of antiinfectious disease target selection team responsible for 14 S pneumoniae drug target selection from gene database to expression and crystallization Dr Zhang was the coinventor of sever patents in the area of kinase inhibitors and novel antiobesity protein therapeutics Dr Zhang received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences and MBA degree from Kelly business school Indiana University

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Avrelija Cencic, University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and life sciences

Agriculture and Medical Scences

Prof Oren Froy received his PhD at TelAviv University Israel during the period 19951999 Currently he is working as a researcher at the Hebrew University in Israel He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like The Open Neuroendocrinology Journal and The World Journal of Diabetes He has authored around 60 research articles and book chapters He is a member of the International Chronobiology Scociety

Effect of food and feeding on the biological clock and agingObesity and the biological clockCircadian rhythm expression of innate immunity componentsMolecular analysis of the biological clock in mammals

Li Zhu is SrScientist at Alcon Laboratories Inc Fort Worth TX

Ophthalmology Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices

Prof Surajit Bhattacharyya is currently in the School of Biological Sciences since 2005 He received his Bachelor degree in Agricultural Sciences from India Master in Biotechnology from India and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Science India respectively His research interests include Strutural Biology using NMR spectroscopy and drug design He has done significant research work his research areas and published over 23 top quality international conference and journal papers He has been often invited as a referee and reviewer for a number of premier journals including Biochemistry Langumur Biopolymers BBA etc

Structural Dissection of Scaffolding Protein and Its Interactions with KinasesSAM-SAM Interactions in MAPKKK Activating Ste11/Ste50 ComplexInteractions of Integrin Tails with Effector ProteinsDesigned Peptide Antagonists against Endotoxin: A structure-based approach to develop antisepsis and antimicrobial drugs.Structure and Activity of Cathelicidin Family of Antimicrobial and Antiendotoxic Peptides.

DrRicky Wong received his PhD in the University of Hong Kong during the period of 20002004 Currently he/ is working as Associate Professor in the University He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Program Director in Orthodontics He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Chinese Medicine The Open Orthopaedics Journal International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal The Open Anthropology Journal Hong Kong Dental Journal Journal of Bioanalysis Biomedicine Asian Pacific Orthodontic Trends Journal of Tissue Science Engineering He has authored 136 research articles/books He is a member of International Association of Dental Research

Bone engineering, phytochemicals, Traditional Chinese Medicines, Orthodontics

Taichun Qin is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center He has received a PhD in Cancer Biology and Pharmacology from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston in 2002 – 2008 He has completed his BA in Pharmacy in Jiangxi Chinese Medical University Nanchang China 1992 He received the prestigious Rosalie B Hite Award and Cancer Answer Scholar Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center He is serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals and reviewer of 4 journals He has over 30 publications

Gene transcription, DNA methylation, and Chromatin remodeling Epigenetic therapy Drug resistance Cancer Metastasis DNA damage and repair Pharmacogenomics.

Cancer drug discovery Mechanisms of chemoresistance Cancer stem cell biology Neurogenesis Brain cancers

Prof/Dr. Jinyong Peng has received his PhD from The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China during the period of 2003-2006, and received his post- doctoral degree in Analytical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China. Currently, he is working as the dean of the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, College of Pharmacy, Dalian Medical University. He is serving as an Associate Editor or Editorial Member of more than ten reputed journals. He has published more than 70 research articles. He is a member of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, Chinese Pharmacological Society, and Chinese Chemical Society. He has honored as “The Award Young Teacher of Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation”, “Access to the Liaoning Provence Science and Technology Advancement Award, Second Class”, “The Award Young Scientist of Dalian”.

To develop and establish effective or new high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Gas chromatography (GC), HPLC-MS/MS, nano-RP-HPLC-ESI-MS/MS/ MS, high-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC), and some coupling chrom -atographic techniques used for preparation, determination or analysis of pharmaceu- ticals, natural products, biological samples and proteins.

 

Mey Wang is Statistical Team Leader Division of Clinical ScienceCenter for Drug Evaluation Taiwan

Clinical Science & Drug Metabolism

Dr Shahzad is currently affiliated with University of Vienna, Austria.He is serving as a Secretary General and Director of Administration for “International society for Translational medicine (ISTM)” He is Associate Professor of Translational Medicine (Adj), at The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, China. Dr Shahzad has won many international fellowships and awards. Dr Shahzad is invited speaker for many international life sciences conferences.

Translational Research and Molecular Diagnostics

Subhash C Basu is a Professor emeritus of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame IN He would be the President of CDDRF Cancer Drug Delivery Research Foundation to be established at Notre Dame He has received PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 196166 He completed his BSc in Chemistry Honors in Calcutta University Calcutta India 1960 He is an elected Fellow of AAAS 1988 He received Jacob Javits Neurological Research Award from NIH 198898 He received Distinguished Biochemist Medal from the Calcutta University in 1989 He became an inducted member of the Johns Hopkins Honor Society in 1995 He is serving as an editorial board member of three reputed journals Glycoconjugate J J Current Drug Targets and J Bioanalysis and Biomedicine and reviewer of 5 other journals Total publications are more than 250 published in the National and International Journals Almost 170 researchers including 25 PhD; 25 post doctorals and 120 technicians visiting scientists and undergraduate Biochemistry Major students were trained in BasuLab during last 39 years Presently he is involved in the research of breast and colon cancer therapy using Liposome Magic Bullets containing newly discovered in his laboratory Apoptotic agents the potential anticancer drugs He would be establishing CDDRF Current Drug Delivery Research Foundation at the Innovation Park Building in Notre Dame for continuation of the present research and to help other laboratories inside and outside of UND campus working in this area of research

Theory and Practice of Informed Consent in Biomedical Research & Organizational Ethics.

Frederick W K Tam is Senior Clinical Lecturer /Hon Consultant West London Renal and Transplant Centre Renal Section Division of Medicine Imperial College London

Biomedicine & Clinical Science

Dr Xiaoyan Jiang has received her MD from Shanghai Second Medical University Shanghai China and a PhD Molecular Biology at McGill University Montreal Canada Currently she is working as a Senior Scientist in the Terry Fox Laboratory of the BC Cancer Agency an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and an Associate Member in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine She is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals including The Open Hematology Journal The Open Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Review Letters Open Journal of Hematology and Open Journal of Oncology She has authored more than 50 research articles and books She has been a member of American Society of Hematology and International Society of Experimental Hematology since 1998 She was honored as a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar in 2005

Medical and Cancer Research, Basic and Translational Leukemia Research, Gene Regulation, Cancer Stem Cell Biology, Proteomics, Ethical Theory in Biomedical Research.

Dr SetoYoung: BS McGill University; PhD University of Cambridge; postdoctoral studies Harvard University; Natural Science of Engineering Research Council NSERC Fellow of Canada; Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Senior Research Scientist Public Health Research Institute and Rockefeller University; Director of Endocrinology and Metabolism Laboratory and Associate Professor of Medicine; Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The role of insulin, IGFs, vitamin D receptor and PPAR- in regulation of human ovarian function; thiazolinediones effect on steroidogenesis in human ovarian cells; thiazolinediones effect on bone metabolism.

Liang Tang has over 15 years of relevant industry experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology and more than 26 years of research experience in protein chemistry molecular biology immunology and cell biology He is currently a Principal Research Scientist II at Bayer HealthCare located at the Richmond USA Adjunct Professor Department of Biology Xiamen University China He worked as a Senior scientist and Principal Scientist in Preclinical Research Department Bayer Biological Division located at the Research Triangle Park North Carolina USA from 2002 2005; a Senior scientist form 1995 to 2002 at the Heska Corporation Fort Collins Colorado USA; a Postdoctoral Associate from1991 to 1995 at the Biochemistry Department Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine London UK; a Postdoctoral research fellow from 1989 1991 at the Institute of Parasitology McGill University Montreal Canada and a Research assistant from 1982 to 1984 at the Department of Biology Xiamen University Fujian China

Biopharceutical and protein therapeutic Hemostasis, Thrombosis and Hematology Protein structual and their biological function Modefication of protein molecules for better PK & PD properties Immunogenecity Cell Biology and cell line enginerring for better therapeutic protein expression Process opptimization for better manufacture in Biopharma
 

Shayesta Dhalla recently completed her PhD in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada in May 2010 She is planning for a postdoctoral position She is also a physician and completed her Internal Medicine residency in 2002 and went on to complete a Masters of Health Science MHSc degree also in the School of Population and Public Health in 2005 Her thesis consisted of an HIV vaccine preparedness study in injection drug users in Vancouver She has presented her work overseas She has several peerreviewed publications and is a reviewer for the journal Vaccine

HIV/AIDS HIV vaccine preparedness Vaccines

MeiYun Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Department of Microbiology LKS Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong She obtained her BA in Genetics in 1986 and MS in Biochemistry in 1989 from China Agricultural University She received her PhD in Natural Science in 2000 from Aachen University Germany Her expertise lies in antibody field She has published over 30 peerreviewed articles in HIV/AIDS and cancer research and is a coinventor of three US patents and several US patent applications She received NIH federal technology transfer award from 2003 to 2008

Elucidation of the mechanisms of protein interactions in virus entry and cancer cell proliferation. Development of antibody-based novel approaches for prevention and treatment of viral diseases and cancer.

Sandeep Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University of Nebraska Medical Center UNCM Omaha Nebraska Staff Gastroenterologist Section of Gastroenterology Omaha Veterans Affairs Medical Center Omaha Nebraska He received his medical degree MB;BCh from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1991 and completed training in Internal Medicine Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation in the United Kingdom and the United States He has been on faculty at UNMC since 2000 and was Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology at Omaha VAMC from 20052008 He is on an editorial board member of 9 journals and reviewer of 13 journals He has published 57 abstracts 72 peerreviewed articles authored or coauthored 4 book chapters and is the editor of the book Hepatitis C and Liver Transplantation

Viral hepatitis (pre- and post-liver transplant) Fatty liver disease Endoscopy Liver transplantation

Jonathan P Wong is a research scientist at Biotechnology Section Defence Research and Development Canada – Suffield DRDC Suffield Ralston Alberta Canada He had completed both undergraduate and graduate studies in Biochemistry 19791985 at University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada He is serving as the editorial board member for 4 journals and as an adhoc reviewer for about 10 journals He has published over 100 scientific papers book chapters technical reports and patents

Antimicrobial drug and vaccine development Liposome drug delivery systems Aerosol inhalation technologies Animal infection models Pathogenesis of microbial infections Nucleic acid-based drugs Immunology and immunomodulators Influenza virus infection

Whasun Oh Chung is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Oral Biology School of Dentistry University of Washington She is also Director of Summer Research Fellowship Program at the University of Washington School of Dentistry She was honored as a University of Washington Nominee for Burroughs Wellcome Award in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease in 2008 She has served on Special Emphasis Review Sections at the National Institutes of Health In addition she has served as a reviewer for 5 grant foundations and 13 scientific journals

Regulation of human beta-defensins in oral epithelial cells Role of commensal vs. pathogenic bacteria in epithelial innate immunity Role of protease-activated receptors in epithelial innate immunity Differential utilization of signaling pathways in oral epithelial responses to bacteria Cross-communication between epithelial cell receptors in innate immune responses Role of protease inhibitors in oral health and disease Titanate-metal complexes as new antimicrobials in dentistry.</

Dr Erik de Leeuw is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Human Virology Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine He received his PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam the Netherlands in 2000 and completed his Diploma in Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Nijmegen the Netherlands in 1996

Chemical protein engineering Antimicrobial peptides Drug development Structural-based rational design Peptide synthesis

Dr Krishanu Ray has received his his MS in Physics from IIT Kharagpur and PhD in spectroscopy from Jadavpur University India Presently he is an ssistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore Before joining to University of Maryland he was a postdoctoral associate at the Yale University He served as a guest editor for the Journal of Fluorescence He has authored over 50 articles in international peerreviewed journals and two book chapters He serves as a reviewer for several international journals and grant agencies His current area of research focuses on the application of advanced fluorescence spectroscopy plasmonics and single molecule detection in biomedical research

Single molecule imaging spectroscopy, Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Metal enhance fluorescence, Surface plasmon coupled emission, Plasmon-controlled fluorescence, Radiative decay engineering, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Chemically amplified photoresists, Langmuir-Blodgett films, Layer-by-layer assembly, Nanotechnology, Plasmonic Nanostructures, Application of single molecule spectroscopy in biomedical research, Viral nucleic acid packaging, Single molecule studies of HIV envelope properties.

Representative, University of Maryland (UM) School of Medicine Council 2007 - Chair, Graduate Student Recruitment and Student/Postdoc Enrichment Committee, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UM 2011- Chair, 2012 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Retreat

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Hematology/Oncology