Dr. Victor Andreev is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami, USA. He earned his PhD at the St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia, and his Doctor of Sciences degree at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published 55 peer-reviewed papers and is an author of 3 book chapters. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience. He served as a member of the editorial board of Talanta (The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry) 2001-2005, and of Nauchnoe Priborostroenie (Scientific Instrumentation, Russia) 1995-2001. He is an ad hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals including: Journal of Proteome Research, The Pharmacogenomics Journal, Molecular Psychiatry, Analytical Chemistry, Talanta, and Electrophoresis. He is a member of American Society for Mass Spectrometry since 2001. Dr. Andreev received many awards including: Giessen Memorial Award in Advanced Research, Northeastern University, Boston, 2002; Fellowship of Cariplo Foundation, Landau Network- Centro Volta, Italy, 2001; Honorary Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1999; Joliot Professorship Fellowship, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie, Paris, France, 1998; J.William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, USIA, Washington, DC, USA, 1995.

Dr. Duconge is Associate Professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at the University of Puerto Rico School of Pharmacy He earned his PhD degree at the University of Havana Cuba He has teaching experience of more than 13 years in Pharmacokinetics Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacogenomics He completed research training in pharmacometrics at Cambridge University UK and the State University of New York at Buffalo and in pharmacogenomics at Hartford Hospital CT He is the author of 48 scientific publications including reviews book chapter and articles in peerreviewed journals He has been awarded with NICHD Grant 5G11HDO46326 and Grant 5P20RR011126 to conduct pharmacogenetic studies in Puerto Ricans He has served as a reviewer of peerreviewed journals in the area of pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics and is an editorial advisory board member of Current Clinical Pharmacology He is member of the American Association of College of Pharmacy 4times honored with the Teacher of the Year Award He also earned the Annual National Prize of Health Sciences Cuban Public Health Services; Best Doctoral Thesis in Pharmaceutical Sciences Cuban National Council of Scientific Degrees and 3times the Research Achievement Awards University of Havana His biography was included in the Who’s Who in America 2009 edition   
 

Dr. Eriko Kobayashi is the assistant professor in School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Chiba University Japan and a registered pharmacist She earned her MPH at Johns Hopkins University USA and her MBA at Tsukuba University Japan From 19962007 she worked at the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare Japan concerning research and development new drugs/devices review drugs and medical devices safety She has published 10 original and reviewed papers in recent 3 years and was an author of 3 book chapters

Dr. Manace is a medical geneticist in clinical practice at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center USA Department of Genetics She earned her MPhil at the University of Cambridge UK and MD at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York USA She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Genetics Department of Medicine at University of California at San Francisco USA She has published two reviewed papers and given invited presentations and grand rounds in the US and internationally on the topic of genomic medicine She has teaching experience of four years in medical genetics Dr Manace is a coinvestigator with the Comparative Effectiveness Research in Genomics and Personalized Medicine for Colorectal Cancer CERGEN study in the Department of Research Kaiser Permanente She has received honors and awards including the Arnold P Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award and Commonwealth Trust Scholarship

Dr Sompop Bencharit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Prosthodontics School of Dentistry and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Dr Bencharit received his DDS in 1994 and Clinical Diploma in Prosthodontics in 1996 from Chulalongkorn University Bangkok Thailand Dr Bencharit came to UNC in 1996 for his residency training and graduate education He earned his Certificate and Master Degree in Prosthodontics in 1999 a PhD in Oral Biology in 2003 and a Certificate in Clinical Research in 2008 from UNC In November 2009 Dr Bencharit became a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and a Fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists He is one of a very few clinicianscientists who are both boardcertified dental specialists and PhD scientists

Dr. Huixiao Hong, Ph.D., is a senior Scientist at the Division of Systems Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Arkansas, USA, working on the scientific bases for regulatory application and development of genomics and biomarkers at the FDA. Before he joined the FDA, he was a senior Bioinformatician and the Manager of Bioinformatics Division at Z-Tech, an ICFI company. He held a Research Scientist position at Sumitomo Chemical Company in Japan. He was a visiting scientist at National Cancer Institute (NCI) at National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was also an Associated Professor and the Director of Laboratory of Computational Chemistry at Nanjing University in China. He published more than 80 scientific papers and served as an Executive Editor or a member of Editorial Board of 9 peer-reviewed journals and as a reviewer of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals in the area of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, and chemoinformatics. He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing University in China and did post-doctoral research at Maxwell Institute in Leeds University in England.
 

Clar Lynda R WilliamsDeVane PhD OADH NHEERL ORD USEPA EPA is working at Networking and Leadership Training Organization (NLTO),  as Vice President of Membership and Networking, US Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Dr. Awewura Kwara is an Assistant Professor in Department of Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University USA He earned his MBChB at University of Ghana Medical School Ghana and completed Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Tulane University Medical Center United States He has published original and reviewed papers in peerreviewed journals He has been in clinical practice for more than 15 years He serves as a reviewer of several infectious diseases journals

Dr.Adrián LLerena  is the Director of the Clinical Research Center in the University Hospital Infanta Cristina en Badajoz Spain He is also professor of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in two Medical Schools in the University of Extremadura Spain and part time in the University of Beira Interior Portugal He earned his PhD at University of Extremadura in 1988 and between 19891993 did his post doc at Karolinska Institute Sweden focusing on Clinical Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs His teaching experience is of more than 20 years in Spain and of about 9 years in Portugal He has supervised more than 10 PhD thesis so far He has also been an invited professor in different Universities in USA such as University of California at Los Angeles 2004 Mount Sinai Medical School at NY 2005 and Miller Medical School at Miami 2006 and in Latin America such as UNAM in Mexico San Marcos in Peru Chile Brasil etc He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters He is also coordinating the Iberoamerican network of Pharmacogenetics since 2006 He served in different Scietific societies as IberoAmerican Society of Pharmacogenomics He has been principal investigator in more than 25 national and european research projects He has also served as reviewer in all journals related to clinical pharmacology and mainly pharmacogenetics and clinical psychopharmacology He has organized several national and international workshops and Scientific conferences in Spain and Latin America

Dr. Lei Guo is a Research Biologist at National Center for Toxicological Research FDA Jefferson She earned her PhD in 1998 in Molecular Biology at Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Japan She was one of the members in the Environmental Mutagen Society Society of Toxicology She has published more than 45 peer reviewed research articles

Dr. Daoud will be the Principal Investigator of this project, The goal of the proposed research is to define the epigenetic signatures of HCV disease progression to an early stage of HCC in clinical samples obtained from Egyptian patients using an integrated approach of DNA methylation and CGH array technologies. The epigenetic/genetic signatures of the identified targets could then be used as markers for prognosis and diagnosis of the disease as well as targets for new and innovative approaches to the prevention and treatment of HCC especially that a prophylactic vaccine for HCV infection is not yet available, His administrative experience as the PI of two previously funded grants in the similar areas of research SG Komen and DoD as well as his tenure as Associate Professor of Pharmacology attest to his ability to meet the administrative needs of the proposed project His membership in the Center for Integrated Biotechnology CIB assure that the assembled team will have access to a wide range of expanding resources. see Facilities Other Resources and Equipment sections Dr Daoud is also the editor of a newly published book in an area relevant to the proposed research titled “Cancer Proteomics: From Bench to Bedside” by Humana Press 2008 Thus the current application builds logically on his prior work in the area of genomics and proteomics of cancer and he has chosen coinvestigators Drs Zekri Esmat Bahnassy Dasgupta Shaffer and Skinner to provide additional expertise needed for the success of the application In summary Dr Daoud has a demonstrated record of successful and productive research projects in an area of high relevance to the health of the US population and his expertise and experience has prepared him to lead the proposed project.

Dr. Hansen Wang is a Research Scientist in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.  He received his Ph.D. degree from Shandong University, China.  Dr. Wang has been studying the neurobiology of human diseases by using genetic and pharmacological approaches.  His research mainly focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurological disorders, such as Fragile X syndrome, Rett syndrome, neuropathic pain and neurodegenerative diseases.  He believes that his research may ultimately help identify therapeutic targets for these neurological disorders.  Dr. Wang has published and presented frequently for his basic study of neurological disorders. 
 

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.
 

Dr. Juan Ding received her B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2004. She then studied in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program under the supervision of Dr. John Kopchick at Ohio University and received her Ph.D. in 2009. Her Ph.D. dissertation unraveled biomarkers of growth hormone and aging in a series of mouse models that showed excess or disrupted growth hormone signaling. As a post doctoral research associate, Dr. Ding focused on detecting growth hormone doping and discovered novel biomarkers of recombinant human growth hormone administration in healthy human subjects. Dr. Ding has published many original research articles as well as reviews and a book chapter on growth hormone, aging, proteomics and molecular biology. Currently Dr. Ding is working at Schepens Eye Research Institute at Harvard medical school to unravel the endocrine regulation of meibomian gland in dry eye disease.
 

Dr. Li is currently a statistical reviewer at Office of Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Li is mainly responsible for reviewing New Drug Applications and Investigational New Drug Applications. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2007 from University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Before he joined FDA, he worked as a Statistician in Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. Dr. Li’s research interests focus on statistical methods for clinical trials, bioinformatics, proteomics, epidemiology, intelligent control and various computational methods for ‘-omics’ techniques. Dr. Li has served as referees for 19 prestigious journals.  He has published 24 peer-reviewed papers and 2 book chapters.
 

He is an Associate Professor and Surgeon in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery in Universiti Sains Malaysia.  He  held a number of professional posts in the national level over the years. He has published and presented in many scientific papers, both at the national and international level. He has also actively involved in services to many international professional communities as invited speakers and presenters. Till to date, he has organized more than 20 conferences with roles and responsibilities from organizing committee to organizing chairperson. He have contributed significantly to the successes of symposiums and workshops in my University and the Malaysian Society of Otorhinolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons (MSO-HNS) Meetings.
 

Yongping Chen was born in Anhui province, China in 1975. He received his B.S. degree in Anhui medical university (1994--1999). He attended the University of Science and Technology of China from 2002--2007 and got his Ph.D. in nano-biological laboratory of the institute of life science, His doctoral research was mainly focused on drug delivery and cancer treatment. After graduation, he served a postdoctoral fellowship in department of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at University of Washington from 2007-2009. From 2009, he moved to Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral fellowship.
 

Yinghua Yang is a research scientist in Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Science, University of Maryland School of Dentistry. He received his Ph.D degree in Cell Biology in 2003 from Peking Union Medical School, China. He became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy at the Hong Kong University. He continued his postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology & immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA. Dr. Yang’s research interests are focused onregulation of angiogenesis and use of targeted drugs/agents/nanoparticlesin cancer and arthritis treatment and diagnosis. He has published over 30 research articles in peer reviewed journals and was an author of 2 book chapters. He has over 10 years of teaching experience in Molecular Biology and Genetics. He is an ad hoc reviewer for several international journals in the area of Pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. He is member of American Association for Cancer Research.

Dr. Jun (Luke) Huan is an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Kansas. He is an affiliated member of the KU Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC), Bioinformatics Center, and Bioengineering Program. Dr. Huan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 (with Wei Wang, Jan Prins, and Alexander Tropsha). Before joining KU in 2006, he worked at the Argonne National Laboratory (with Ross Overbeek) and the GlaxoSmithKline plc. (with Nicolas Guex). Dr. Huan was a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2009. He has published more than 60 papers in peer reviewed journal and conferences. His group won the best student paper award in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and the best paper award (runner-up) in the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in 2009. Dr. Huan serves on the editorial or advisory board of several leading journals including the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, the American Journal of Bioinformatics, and the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening.