MEET THE EXECUTIVE GUEST EDITORS

Prof. Abrahamse is presently serving as a Director in the Laser Research Center. She has been awarded a degree of PhD in Molecular Biology/Biochemistry from Wits University. Her research interests include photobiology and photochemistry with specific reference to photodynamic cancer therapy, nanotechnology and targeted cancer therapy investigating the intricate mechanisms underlying cancer cell death induced by novel photochemotherapeutic compounds in conjunction with the use of nanoparticles. Her international standing as a researcher of distinction is supported by the fact that she has hosted 3 international conferences and has been invited to present her research at several international conferences. Her publication record is impressive with 154 peer-reviewed accredited journal publications, 19 chapters and 3 books, and a Scopus H-index of 27.

The experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of researching in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. Skilled in clinical research, Animal models, Cellular models, Scientific writing & publishing. He has focused on extensive fields of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Natural products, Radiopharmaceuticals, Nanomedicine, Radiation biology, Cancer chemoradiotherapy and other fields of Pharmacy at the Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. He has published many originals and reviews in high-quality journals and selected as a recognized international editor and peer reviewer by famous publishers. In 2019, Dr. Amirhossein Ahmadi certificates for placing in the top 1% of reviewers in Cross-Field on Publons global reviewer database.

Dr. Al-Abd has been promoted in the fields of research/academia from research assistant to associate research professor at the National Research Centre of Egypt. He worked for 6 years as an Assistant/Associate Professor at King Abdul-Aziz University and supervised the research activities within the Tissue Culture facility in the Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdul-Aziz University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Gulf Medical University, United Arab Emirates. In addition to his title, he is a visiting scholar in Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, USA.

Dr. DANCIU CORINA is a Researcher, Pharmacist and the Head of Department of Pharmacognosy in Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara. She has been awarded a degree of PhD in 2013. She has contributed her valuable 60 publications in different scientific journals. She is also a member of the editorial board of 6 international journals and co-author of patents. Her research interests include: quantitative and qualitative characterization of vegetal extracts, in vitro and in vivo evaluation of pure natural compounds or total extracts for different types of cancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antibacterial effect.

Viswanath Das, M.Sc. in Biosciences with specialization in Biotechnology 2008, Sri Sathya Sai University, Puttaparthi, India; Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology 2012, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; Postdoc, Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2015; Visiting fellow, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy 2015; Staff Scientist, Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2017; Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic 2017. His research interest is in the repurposing of anti-cancer drugs for proteinopathy neurological disorders and the use of three-dimensional cell cultures as pathophysiologically relevant models for drug discovery and development.

Ibrahim Hassan Eissa received his B.Sc. in 2003, Master’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry in 2009 and a PhD degree in 2012, both from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University and was made a manager of QAU in 2018. His scientific activity is focused on design, molecular modelling studies and synthesis of new bioactive compounds with potential anticancer activity against EGFR, VEGFR-2, Topoisomerases, tubulins, Carbonic anhydrases, and thymidylate synthase.

Dr. Jingkun Fang received both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Hunan University in 2005 and 2010 respectively. During his Ph.D. period, he studied at the Okayama University of Science for 2 years under a joint Ph.D. program. After working in Changsha Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for nearly 3 years (2010-2013), he got a position as an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry in Nanjing University of Science and Technology (2013-present). He visited the Australian National University as a visiting scholar for 3 months in 2017. His research interests mainly focus on Organic Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry, and Organic Functional Molecule.

Prof. Jin-Chul Kim did his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from KAIST. In academic career, he spent more than 15 years in the College of Biomedical Science, Kangwon National University. His research interests include drug delivery systems, colloid & interface science, and polymer science developed to minimize the side effects of drugs and to maximize their efficacy. His researches are focused on the development of efficacious drug carriers, mostly working on carriers that release their contents in response to stimuli such as light, temperature, pH, current flow, magnetic field, and some specific substances. His publication record is impressive with more than 240 SCI-grade papers as the corresponding author.

Dr Mei Lin is a Professor of Medical Science and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine. Her main research areas are nanomedicine, personalized diagnosis and therapy for cancer and tumour molecular imaging. Prof. Mei Lin is the academic leader of Jiangsu Key Clinical Specialty, the clinical laboratory of Taizhou People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University. Her research work focuses on synthesis and characterization of Nano-drug and molecular probe, tumour molecular imaging, drug delivery, targeted therapy for cancer including chemotherapy, gene-therapy, magnetic thermotherapy and nuclide therapy.

Dr. Tânia Morais has been awarded a degree of PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2013 from the University of Lisbon. She was honored by the Portuguese Chemical Society in 2014 with the prize “Portuguese Young Chemist Award”. Currently, she is a researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural(CQE) at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). Her research focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of Ru, Fe and Cu complexes with targeting molecules (e.g. peptides, carbohydrates, and biomolecules) in their structure for the selective inhibition of the cancer development and metastases. She has 23 papers published in international journals, 3 book chapters and 3 patents.

Dr. Palmiro Poltronieri is presently serving as a researcher at the Agrofood Department of the Italian National Research Council. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Verona University. His research interests include abiotic and biotic stress response in model plants, in bioactives from plants with a beneficial effect on health, in food microbiology and in the application of biocontrol strains for plant health. He is the co-founder of Biotecgen, a Small Medium Enterprise and service company, involved in European projects, such as RIBOREG, NANOMYC, ABSTRESS, and TOMGEM. He is Associate Editor to BMC Research Notes and is editor-in-chief for Challenges, an MDPI journal. He has co-authored 76 publications in international journals, 35 book chapters, and 5 books.

Dr. Manuel Scimeca, Biologist - Bachelor degree in "Cellular and molecular Biology" (2008); Masrer degree in "Medical Biotechnology" (2011), PhD in "Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine" (2015). Professor at University of Rome “Tor Vergata, “San Raffaele” University and “Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences”. Coordinator of Anatomic Pathology laboratory, (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) and Histology laboratory research (OrchideaLab). Post-Doc position at University of Rome “Tor Vergata” for the project “Management of oncological patients”. Participant in the European group of breast pathology studies. Member of the “Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica” (SIAPEC). Dr. Manuel Scimeca currently employs all basic and advanced techniques of the histological area such as optical and electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, design and construction of Tissue Micro arrays (TMA), laser microdissection and capture.

Dr. Onur received his Ph.D. in Medical Biology and Genetics from the Pamukkale Institute of Medical Sciences in 2017. After completion of his degree he got the Assist. Prof. position in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Pamukkale, Denizli/TURKEY. His interests are focused on cancer genetics and biology. In particular his laboratory is currently working on understanding the role of exosomes in tumorgenesis. Dr. Tokgun has published several research papers in scientific journals

Prof. Yusuf TUTAR currently continues his research at the University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Biochemistry- Mektebi Tıbbiye-i Sahane, Turkey. He is also the head of the Molecular Medicine Program. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Oregon State University and Texas Tech University, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIDDK), USA. His research focuses on Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with specialization in the fields of drug design, protein structure-function, protein folding, prion, microRNA, pseudogenes, molecular cancer, epigenetics, metabolites, proteomics, genomics, protein expression and characterization by spectroscopic and calorimetric methods.

Dr Haineng Xu is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ovarian Cancer Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas include Oncolytic adenovirus, Cancer gene therapy, Cancer stem cells, and Small molecular drugs. Besides, he is a reviewer and editorial board member of several international journals. Also, he has published more than 20 papers in well-reputed international journals.

Qiang Yan is a medical doctor, master supervisor, adjunct professor and FACS, Chairman of Department of General Surgery at Zhejiang University Huzhou Hospital, Director of Department of Hepatopancreatic and Biliary Surgery and Department of Surgery Teaching and Research. He is a member of Committees of Biliary Surgeons, Department of Surgeons and Hepatobiliary Minimal of Non-invasive Surgery, Chinese Medical Doctor Association and many other academic associations. He is a Special Reviewer of Journals of Medicine, Oncotarget; Special Member of Editorial Committees of Chinese Journal of General Surgery, Liver Cancer and Chinese Journal of Clinicians, a participant of High Level Talents of Zhejiang Medicine and Zhejiang Province 151 Talents.

Professor Lin Yang has received his B.S. in Clinical Medicine from Westchina Medical University in 1990, M.S. in Surgery from Tianjin Medical University in 2001，and M.D. in Imaging Medicine and Nuclear Medicine from Sichuan University in 2007, respectively. He was employed as a professor of Imaging Medicine and Nuclear Medicine at Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College in 2012. Professor Lin Yang published about 80 journal manuscripts, and seven academic books, respectively. He served as the Member of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), and Chinese Society of Interventional Oncology; Deputy chairman of Sichuan Society of Interventional Medicine, and Reviewers of J Vasc Interv Radiol, WJG, and Clinics, respectively.

Dr. Puangtip Chaiphibalsarisdi received her PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Illinois U.S.A. in 1990. Currently, she is a faculty member of the Bachelor of Science Program in Health Service Business Management from the College of Allied Health Sciences, SSRU. She is also a Chair of the Master of Nursing Science Program in Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Saint Louis College, Thailand. Moreover, she has contributed her valuable publications in different scientific journals and has been awarded at various platforms for her outstanding contribution in Science.

Oueslati Ridha is born at Tebourba Tunisia , Master degree in Biochemistry obtained in 1982 from Strasbourg Luis Pasteur University , moved to Paris he obtained successively his DERBH in Immunology of Cancer and Transplantation 1985, and his Human Biology Doctorate (PhD) in 1986 from Medicine South Paris Faculty .He spent four years at National Cancer Institute Paris-Ville juif -France. He worked in 1988 as Assistant Professor in Immunology at Thameur Hospital Tunisia and Professor Associate In Immunology at Military Hospital Principal Tunis . He developed Tumors Markers screening and create Culture cellular Laboratory for immune cell transplant patient follow and tumor cells screening . Moved in 2000 to Sciences Faculty of Bizerte as Associate Professor then Professor in Immunology and Microbiology , he create IMEC Unit , direct more than 15 doctorate related essentially to inflammation , Clonal tumor and Molecular Bio Markers , Microorganisms screening and Immune toxicology . His works are cited in respects papers . Mr oueslati is an active international scientific men known by his international group collaboration and as reviewers in prestigious journals . Actually he is an Editor Board member of Scientific Reports Nature Groups journal.

Dr. Ingles is presently serving as a Professor of Educational Psychology at the Department of Health Psychology in the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche. He was awarded a degree of PhD in Clinical and Adolescent Psychology from the University of Murcia in 2001. He also received Extraordinary Doctorate Award for his Ph.D. from the UMU in 2004. He has contributed more than 180 articles in different Psychology Journals. His research interests include assessment, measurement, prevention, psychoeducational treatment on social anxiety, aggressive and prosocial behavior, legal drugs abuse, cognitive-motivational variables, academic achievement, perfectionism, school refusal behavior and positive and negative affect in children and adolescents.

Dr. Ding obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Analytical Chemistry from University of Nanjing, China. Currently Dr. Ding is a Full Professor in Southeast University, China. He has published more than 70 scientific publications. Dr. Ding is currently one of the Editorial Board this journal (Current Analytical Chemistry, CAC), published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Dr. Inamuddin is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electrochemistry. He has published 127 research articles in international journals of repute and 18 book chapters in knowledge-based book editions. He has published thirty-seven edited books for leading international publishers. He is serving as an Associate Editor for journals such as Environmental Chemistry Letter, Applied Water Science, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports-Nature and editor for Eurasian Journal of Analytical Chemistry.

Dr. Sevinc Kurbanoglu obtained PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nano bioelectronics & Biosensor Group at Institute Catala, Barcelona, Spain. She has been serving as a Research and Teaching Assistant Chemistry, Ankara, Turkey. She has contributed her valuable publications in different journals. Her skills and expertise are in Polymerization Materials, Nanomaterials, Polymers, Enzymes, Sample Preparation, Biomaterials, Nanoscience, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Chromatography.

Dr. Mashallah Rezakazemi received his B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in 2009 and 2011 respectively from the Iran University of Science and Technology. He has also been awarded a degree of PhD from the University of Tehran in 2015. Dr. Rezakazmi served as a professor of the faculty of Chemical and Material Engineering at the Shahrood University of Technology. His research interest is in the general area of the water-energy nexus, CO2 capture, gas separation, desalination, to the service of the broad areas of learning and training.

Dr. Samanidou is presently serving as a full professor at the University of Thessaloniki. She has been awarded a degree of PhD in Chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has published more than 130 original research articles in peer reviewed journals and 50 reviews and chapters in scientific books. She was also guest editor in 2 special issues in scientific journals. She is a member of the editorial board of more than 10 scientific journals and she has reviewed almost 400 manuscripts in more than 90 scientific journals.

Dr. H. O. Wang is a Chair Associate Professor at the Institute of Materials Physics. He received his BS (Physics) from Jiangsu Normal University in 2007, his PhD (Materials Science and Engineering) in 2013 from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He joined Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2014 at the Department of Materials science and Engineering. Dr. Wang’s research activities encompass information materials, magneto-electric materials, magnetic materials, nano-mechanics, and nano-materials. He serves as a member of the editorial board for three journals and was invited keynote speakers of major conferences. He has published over 40 articles in various international journals including New Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, EPL-Europhysics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, etc.

Dr. Chongqing Wang obtained his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Central South University in 2017, and then work as an associate professor in School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University from 2017. His field is recycling of solid wastes via physical and chemical methods, specifically involving separation and extraction of valuable components and conversion of solid waste into functional materials. He has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers and 5 Chinese authorized patents. He is also the member of International Waste Working Group, editorial member of Frontiers in Materials and Nonferrous Metals (Extractive Metallurgy Section).

Dr. Halil Durak was born in Turkey in 1981. He graduated with a BSc in Chemical Education from the Yuzuncu Yil University 2004. He has joined the Yuzuncu Yil University in 2005 where he obtained an MSc (2007) in Chemical Education and a PhD (2012) in Physical Chemistry. His PhD focuses on the dissolution kinetics and determination of tincal in phosphoric acid solutions of high temperatures. Currently, Dr Halil Durak is an Assoc.Prof.Dr. in the Department of Chemistry, Yuzuncu Yil University, Zeve Campus. Dr. Durak’s current research focuses thermochemical conversion process such as pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, supercritical liquefaction.

Dr. Malek Hassanpour holds his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Health Engineering from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran, and is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Environmental Science at Osmania University, India. His particular research focus is on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), waste management and plasma technology. His skills and expertise are in Renewable Energy Technologies, Water Quality, Environment, Economic Development, Sustainable Development, Environmental Analysis, Environmental Impact Assessment, Management, Business and Sustainability.

Dr. Shahram Javadi is presently serving as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department in I.A.U central Tehran. He is a senior member of IEEE and he is also an active researcher in Renewable Energies, smart grid, Electric Vehicles, Power electronics and control systems. He has contributed more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences. He is also a member of International and technical committee of WSEAS,IEEE, CIGRE Academic board for International Power System Conference (PSC), Academic board for Power System Protection & Control conference (PSPC), Member of Iranian Association of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IAEEE), Member of the Scientific Committee of Iranian Wind Energy Society and Member of Iranian Fuzzy Systems Society.

Dr. Dengwei Jing is presently serving as a full time professor at the International Research Center for renewable Energy & National Laboratory of Multiphase flow in power engineering, Xi’an Jaitong University. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in Thermal Engineering from the same University in 2007. His field of expertise is in the Multiphase flow modelling and measurement, Solar Energy conversion, Hydrogen production and advanced nanotechnologies for enhanced heat and mass transfer. He has also been awarded as the Newton Advanced Fellowship from the Royal Society, UK. He has published more than 115 peer reviewed journal papers, including Nature Communications, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Physics Letters, Physics Fluids, AIChE J, Energy, Solar Energy, Inter J Heat Mass Transfer, etc.

Dr. Q. Li is currently serving as an Associate Researcher Professor in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University. He received his Doctoral, Master and Bachelor degree from the department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He is a co-author of 180 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters and his H index is 20. His research interests include photothermic/voltaic hybrid solar energy utilization, industrial boiler design, biomass and waste combustion, environmental technology, et al.

Dr Yuanrong Lu is currently working as a Professor at the Peking University, State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Beijing, China. He has received a PhD degree from the Institute of Applied Physics, Frankfurt University, a Masters’ degree and Bachelors of Science from the Dept. Of Technical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University. His research skills include Ion Beam Analysis, Radiation Detection, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear Structure, Plasma Technology, linear accelerator, RF Engineering, Linac, Plasma Physics, Nuclear Physics, Radio Frequency, Accelerator Physics, Laser Plasma Interaction, Accelerators, Plasma, Laser, Ion Source, Electrostatics, Ion Implantation, Electron, MCNPX, High Energy Physics, High Vacuum, Conceptual Design, Design Optimization, Electromagnetism, Spectrometers, Particle Physics, Heavy Ion Physics, and Synchrotron. Moreover, he has published more than 200 papers in well-reputed international journals.

Dr. E.A Parlak is presently serving as a senior scientist at TUBITAK Marmara Research Center Chemistry Institute. She completed her graduation from Middle East Technical University in 1997 and she further obtained M. Sc. Degree from the same institution. She has also been awarded a degree of PhD in 2006 from İstanbul Technical University (İTU) Polymer and Technology Programme. Her experience is mainly based on conducting polymers, organic photovoltaics, perovskite solar cells, and polymer technology. She has 30 publications in journal papers and participated in various national/international research projects on energy issues. She has participated in an international project that was COST 1307 International Project called ‘’ Stable next generation solar cells’’ In the project, we mostly motivated on stability protocols of organic and perovskite solar cells (ISOS stability protocols).

Dr. Narasimalu Srikanth is the Program Director and Principal Research Scientist leading the offshore renewables in ERI@N (NTU). Earlier to NTU, he was the Technical director and Senior Specialist at Vestas Wind Energy Systems and has more than 25 years of industrial research & development experience. His educational qualification includes first masters in design engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) and second masters in materials engineering from National University of Singapore where he further pursed his first doctoral PhD degree in Mechanical engineering and further put efforts towards his second doctoral PhD degree in Technology management and Innovation and has published more than 150 journal papers and has 30 over patents. His areas of research interest include design of renewable systems towards tropical locations, floating renewables towards remote coastal location, structural integrity studies using IOT based machinery and offshore structures health sensing system, machine learning algorithms towards energy forecasting and digital twins towards asset health monitoring to enable condition based maintenance and condition based operation in tropical environment.

Dr. Zhen Yang is a Professor at the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He received his B.E. and PhD degrees in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He was a post-doctor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA from 2008- 2010, and joined Tsinghua University in 2010. His field of expertise includes Thermal Energy Storage, Solar Thermal Power System, and Boiling & Condensation. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals and has been keynote speakers and committee members at multiple international conferences in his research field.

Dr Rachid Hsissou received the PhD degree in Polymer Chemistry in 2018 from the Ibn Tofail University (Morocco). His PhD thesis was involved in the synthesis and formulation of epoxy polymers and its composites. Dr Rachid Hsissou joined the laboratory of Advanced Materials and Process Engineering since 2013. He has published more than 30 scientific publications. His research interests and field of expertise include fabrication and formulation of the polymer as composite materials and their properties, particularly investigation of a new composite as a coating for protection of materials.

Dr. F. Jiang is presently serving as a professor in the Department of Physics from Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2013 from Soochow University. His research interests lie in Organic film/fiber material including conducting polymer, graphene, and organic/inorganic hybrids in the field of organic thermoelectric. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Shaohua Wang is a Chief Physician and a Professor at the Department of Endocrinology at ZhongDa Hospital of Southeast University. He received his M.D. in Clinical Medicine from Nanjing Railway Medical College and Ph.D. in Internal Medicine from Medical School of Southeast University. Professor Wang is an Associate Editor of “Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease”. He has published more than 50 academic papers in the scientific database. His research is primarily focused on the basic and clinical study of diabetic associated-cognitive impairment, prevention and treatment strategies of diabetic chronic complications as well as prevention and early intervention strategies of gestational diabetes mellitus. He is currently working to provide additional insights into the pathogenesis of T2DM-related cognitive impairment and an early therapeutic strategy to treat dementia.

Dr. Huafeng Wei is an Associate Professor with Tenure at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. Dr. Wei completed his medical graduate student education and training in Anesthesiology at Tongji Medical University in 1988. He obtained his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the George Washington University in 1996 and completed his postdoctoral training at Georgetown University and National Institute of Health (NIH) in 1999. He completed his second resident training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and become a standing faculty member thereafter at UPENN. His lab has focused on studying the role of calcium dysregulation in neurodegeneration in various neurodegenerative diseases, especially in Alzheimer’s disease and after various general anesthetics treatments. His lab is the first to demonstrate that dantrolene, a drug for treatment of malignant hyperthermia, can abolish the memory and learning impairment in various animal models of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Wei has been an invited speaker for Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UCSF, Duke, UVA, Imperial College of England, University of Heidelberg in Germany, University of Padova in Italy, as well as speakers for international conferences in more than 10 countries and regions.

Prof. Shengzhou Wu received a degree of bachelor of Medicine from Shanghai Medical University (renamed as Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University in 2000) and obtained a Ph.D degree in Neuroscience from University of Arkansas for Medical Science. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Department of Neurology in Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis he has joined and currently is a professor in School of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Wenzhou Medical University in China. His major scientific interest is focused on neurodegeneration in the central nervous system and in the retina including Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Chen received Ph.D. degree in System Analysis and Integration from East China Normal University, Shanghai. Currently, he is an associated professor in College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University. Dr. Chen is in charge of the academic degree of Software & Theory of Computer. His interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, graph theory, and algorithm design. Up to now, he has published more than 90 scientific publications.

Dr. Yongqing Zhang is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Chengdu University of Information and Technology, Chengdu, China. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in Computer Science from Sichuan University, China in 2016. He was a visiting PhD student at the University of California San Diego, USA. His research is in the areas of machine learning and bioinformatics and his several related works have been published by NAR, EAAI, CHEMOMETER LAB, etc.

Dr. Manny D. Bacolod is currently an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College (New York, NY). After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut, he has held various research positions at Duke University Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Bacolod’s contribution to cancer literature encompasses a wide range of topics including colon cancer genomics and biomarker discovery, epigenetics, cancer genetics, brain tumor drug resistance, chemical mutagenesis, cancer metastasis, and immuno oncogenomics.

Dr. Yonghan He received his M.D. degree from Harbin Medical University in China. He finished his post-doctoral training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and University of Florida in the USA. He is presently serving as an Associate professor of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. He focuses on studying the mechanisms involved in cancer cell death, and developing small molecules or natural compounds that suppress tumor cell growth. He is also very interested in studying cellular senescence and developing senolytics that can selectively kill senescent cells to improve the health of aged individuals. Dr. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in journals related to cancer or aging.

Dr. Heiko Konig is presently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center in Inianapolis where his effort is dedicated to the care of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other hematological malignancies, and laboratory based research with a focus on the role of hypoxia in the development of AML drug resistance and minimal residual disease. He received his MD and doctoral degrees from the medical schools at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and the Philipps University Marburg/ Germany, respectively. He is also serving as the co-chair of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (BTCRC) Myeloid Malignancies Clinical Trial Working Group and the Hoosier Cancer Research Network (HCRN) Lymphoma/Leukemia Clinical Trial Working Group.

Dr. Guangwei Liu is currently serving as a professor in the Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He and his group members are currently interested in understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms for positive and negative regulation of T cell immune function, exploring the possibility for clinical application of anti-tumor immunotherapy and anti-infection, as well as establishing protocols to induce transplant immune tolerance. He has contributed more than 70 peer reviewed papers in international journals such as Immunity, Nature Immunology, Nature Communications, PNAS, Blood, Journal of Immunology and Cancer Research.

Dr. Valery V. Tuchin is presently serving as a Professor and Chair of Optics and Biophotonics at Saratov University (National Research University of Russia). He is also the head of Laboratory of Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems, Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control, RAS, and the supervisor of Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biophotonics at Tomsk State University (National Research University of Russia) and Laboratory of FemtoMedicine of ITMO University (National Research University of Russia). His research interests include tissue optics, laser medicine, tissue optical clearing, and nanobiophotonics. He has published more than 700 papers (Web of Science), 27 monographs and text-books, and 58 book chapters. Dr. Tuchin is also a holder of more than 50 patents.

Dr. C. Xu received his Doctoral degree from the Third Military Medical University (TMMU), China. Following his clinical and research training in internal medicine and preventive medicine at TMMU. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer stem cell research at the Institute of Pathology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest hospital, TMMU. He is currently a Professor of Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests include the self-renewal mechanism of cancer stem cell, tumor microenvironment, protein posttranslational modifications in signaling and immune regulation of cancer. He has published more than 30 papers and gained strong expertise and experience in studying protein-protein interaction and signal transduction. Dr. Xu has provided numerous services to the scientific community and beyond, his current services include the members of the Committee of Neoplastic Supportive Care, Chinese Anti-cancer Association and Experts Committee on Education for Cancer Patients, Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology.

Dr. Ibrahim Alarifi received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 from the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Wichita State University. After having the lecturer experience, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Majmaah University in 2012 as a lecturer and received his tenure and promotion to be an assistant professor in 2018. He is currently working in the same Department as Assistant Professor, ME Head of Dept from 2017 to current., Director of Engineering & Applied Sciences Research Center from 2019 to current, ME Quality Coordinator from 2017 to current and Vic-dean for Academic Affairs of Common First Year at Majmaah University from 2018 to current. Throughout his research experience, he has published 58 journal papers and 18 conference proceedings, edited 2 books, authored 4 book chapters and 1 laboratory manuals, received 4 funded proposals, and 4 honors/awards, presented 10 presentations, chaired many international conferences and reviewed several manuscripts in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr Jianbin Chen is currently serving as a Professor at Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Shandong, P. R. China. He obtained his PhD degree with “magna cum laude” in Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) at the University of Rostock, Germany 2015. He continued the postdoc research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2016. His academic interests are focused on the development of sustainable synthetic methodologies and applications of functional materials in the energy field. He has contributed 37 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious SCI international journals.

Dr. Hui Ding is presently serving as an Associate Professor of Center for Informational Biology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She has been awarded a degree of PhD from Inner Mongolia University, China in 2009. Her research areas are of Systems Biology and theoretical Biology. She has contributed over 60 peer reviewed paper in SCI- indexed Journals. Her publications have been cited over 3, 406 times with H- index of 31 in google scholar.

Dr. Guohua Huang is currently a Full Professor at Provincial Key Laboratory of Informational Service for Rural Area of Southwestern Hunan, Shaoyang University. He received his Ph.D. in informatics and system biology from Shanghai University. Prof. Huang’s research interest focuses mainly on algorithms of machine learning and application of it in the molecular biology, drug design and drug repositioning. He has recently published more than 50 scientific papers, edited 4 special issues as guest editors, and reviewed more than 50 manuscripts for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals as reviewers.

Muthukumarasamy Karthikeyan is a Principal Scientist in the Chemical Engineering and Process Development Division at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune, India. He holds PhD in Organic Chemistry and working in the area of chemoinformatics its application in drug discovery and design of novel materials for the past 16 years. He has co-authored a text book on Practical Chemoinformatics and about 40 research papers in the area of chemoinformatics handling large scale molecular data and developed open source tools for harvesting chemical information (http://moltable.ncl.res.in/). He is also the recipient of BOYSCAST Award by Department of science and Technology and Overseas Associate Award by Department of Biotechnology. He is selected for 2015 Open Innovation Challenge Award by Thomson Reuters and CodeX. Recently he published two special issues in J. Combi. Chem. High Throughput Screening containing articles on chemoinformatics tools for drug discovery.

He is a PhD holder from The University of New South Wales, specializing in the area of renewable energy from biomass. He is currently an Associate Professor of chemical reaction engineering at Universiti Malaysia Pahang. His field of interest includes renewable energy, steam reforming, dry reforming, hydrothermal process, photocatalysis and reaction engineering.

Dr. Sevinc Kurbanoglu obtained PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nano bioelectronics & Biosensor Group at Institute Catala, Barcelona, Spain. She has been serving as a Research and Teaching Assistant Chemistry, Ankara, Turkey. She has contributed her valuable publications in different journals. Her skills and expertise are in Polymerization Materials, Nanomaterials, Polymers, Enzymes, Sample Preparation, Biomaterials, Nanoscience, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Chromatography.

Qifeng Li received his BS (1999) and PhD (2004) degrees from University of Science and Technology of China. In 2010, he joined Tianjin University as a Professor. His research interest is in the area of designing, building and perfecting remote optical devices. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles. The overall practicality of research solutions is confirmed by more than 20 authorized patents. Since 2012, he has received more than 10 research grants as a Principal Investigator.

Hua Li is currently a Professor at Xi’an Shiyou University and Northwest University. Also, he is the Vice President and Chairman of the Academic Committee at the Xi’an Shiyou University. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Changchun Institute of Applied, Chemistry(CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), China. His research interests revolves around Chemometrics and Cheminformatics, Process Analysis and Technology, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Energetic Materials and High Throughput Screening, and Green Energy Chemistry and Processes. Dr Li has published more than thirty articles in various reputed journals.

Dr. Yujing Li is presently serving as a faculty member at the Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in Genetics from Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He shares one patent with Dr. Richard B. Meagher. He serves as editorial board members / guest editor for several JCR journals as well as reviewers for many journals. He has authored 70 of peer reviewed papers and several book chapters. His research interests include cell biology, molecular genetics, genomics, neuroscience, epigenetics, and chemical biology and stem cells.

Dr. Chengliang Luo is presently serving as an Associate Professor of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, China. He has been awarded a degree of Ph.D. from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 2013. He has completed his training as a Post-doc fellow in Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School from 2017 to 2019. He serves as editorial board members/guest editor and reviewer for several journals. He has contributed over 50 peer-reviewed JCR papers and several book chapters. His research interests include biomarkers, brain injury, neuroscience, molecular and cell biology, pharmacology and pharmacy.

Dr. Ali Maleki received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2009. He started his career as an Assistant Professor in Iran University of Science and Technology in 2010, where he is currently Associate Professor. His research interests focus on design and development of novel catalysts, nanochemistry and green chemistry. He has more than 100 ISI-JCR publications. He has been selected as a distinguished researcher of IUST within 2010-2017. Dr. Maleki was awarded the 2016 IUPAC prize for green chemistry.

Dr. Bijo Mathew is presently working as an Associate Professor in Ahalia School of Pharmacy, Kerala, India and he has also been working on the screening of Novel Inhibitors of Monomine Oxidases and Cholinesterases from synthetic compounds to pursue pharmaceutical agents. He has been awarded a degree of PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad, India in 2016. He has contributed 80 research articles in qualified international journals with H index of 15.

Dr Li Mengshan is presently serving as an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence and its application, College of Physics and Electronic Information, Gannan Normal University, China. His research interest includes Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, Artificial Intelligence and its application, Computer-aided drug design, High Throughput Screening and Material Processing Engineering, Polymer theoretical calculation and simulation. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Tarek A. Mohamed is presently serving as a full Professor in the Chemistry Department at Al-Azhar University. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in Chemistry through a joint program between the Chemistry Departments at the USC and UMass (USA) with Al-Azhar University (Egypt). He previously served at United Arab Emirates University (UAE), Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) and University of Nizwa (Oman). Dr. Mohamed has already authored/co-authored over 55 published manuscripts in refereed ISI international journals. Furthermore, he is a reviewer in 13 ISI-international journals, and he is also a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of many international conferences.

Mohamed Z.M. Salem received the BSc and MSc degrees in Forestry and Wood Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt, and the PhD from the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, in 1999, 2004 and 2011, respectively. He is currently Associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt. His research is in the areas of bioactivities of natural products, identification and characterization of extracted natural chemical compounds, wood-treated biofungicides, nanoparticles application and formaldehyde emission from wood-based panels. Several related works have been published by Journal of Cleaner Production, Industrial Crops and Products, BioResources, Molecules, Science of the Total Environment, Microbial Pathogenesis, etc. Google scholar showed that his more than 100 papers have been cited more than 1500 times. His Scopus h-index is 17. He is enrolled as editor board member of several scientific Journals.

Dr Selin Şahin Sevgili is presently serving as an Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University, Turkey. She completed her M.Sc. in 2007 from Istanbul University. She further obtained a PhD from Istanbul University in 2011 with Specialization in Chemical Engineering, Agricultural and Food Studies. Her research experience includes Equilibrium, solubility, kinetic and thermodynamic studies, Novel separation techniques, Extension of shelf life of foods and Natural food additives. She has contributed her valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Associate professor at the Department of Entomology of College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University. I received completed Ph.D. in Zoology (field of study - Molecuar Phylogenetics) at the Institute of Zoology (2009) Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2006, I have been doing research on the insect mitogenome sequencing and the phylogenetic analyses on the mitogenomic data. In recent years, I used NGS method to assemble mitogenome sequences and tried to apply genome-scale data to insect phylogeny reconstruction. My reasearch focuses mainly on Hemiptera and Coleoptera (Insecta). As of February 2020, I have authored over 30 scientific publications indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded.

Thomas Yang Sun received a B.A. in Philosophy from the Columbia University, New York, in 2007. He did his M.D. M.H.S. from the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT in 2012. He also did Post-graduate training from the Residency in Internal Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA in 2017. He has published several research/review papers in well-reputed journals. Besides, he is a Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2019) and American College of Physicians (2017). Also, an Applicant Interviewer at the Columbia Alumni Representatives Committee.

Zhigang Tu started his Master's Degree in image processing at the School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China, 2008. In 2015, he received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University, Netherlands. From 2015 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, US. Then from 2016 to 2018, he was a research fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote sensing, Wuhan University. His research interests include computer vision, image processing, video analytics, and machine learning. Special for motion estimation, object segmentation, object tracking, action recognition and localization, and anomaly detection. He has published more than 40 papers in several journals.

Prof. Bengi Uslu is currently a full Professor at Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Turkey. Her areas of interest are electrochemistry, nano/biosensors, drug analysis, redox mechanisms of drugs, spectrophotometry, validation, separation techniques, method development, research, and development. Her postdoctoral research was sponsored by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and was conducted with Prof. Emil Palecek in the Czech Republic. She has published as author and co-author of more than 200 scientific articles and publications.

Dr. Zhiwei Yang is the Assistant Professor of the School of Science at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his Ph.D. from Northeast Forestry University, P.R. China in 2011. His research is in the area of Condensed Matter Physics in Living Systems. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals.

Dr. Lei-ming Yuan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the College of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University. He graduated in the 2016 year and researched in signal processing and data mining for chemical compositional analysis and classification. Since five years, he has been publishing several scientific papers in distinguished journals.

Prof. Yanxiang Zhang holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, China (2013). Currently, he is a Professor and Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, HIT, China. His research interests include irreversible thermodynamics of solid-state ionic materials and devices, analysis of electrochemical kinetics, and three-dimensional reconstruction of heterogeneous materials. He has published more than 50 papers in well-reputed journals. Besides, he is the Editorial Board Member of Advances in Materials (Science Publishing Group) and Journal of Electronics & Information Systems (Bilingual Publishing Co.). Also, he is a Reviewer for some academic journals such as Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of Power Sources, Electrochemistry Communication, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, and Solid State Ionics.

Dr. Pan Zheng received a PhD and Master of Science (Computer Science) from the Universiti Sains Malaysia and Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Information Systems Engineering from the Multimedia University. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also an editorial board member in the International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems and Cogent Engineering. Moreover, he has published several scientific papers in distinguished journals.

Dr. Quan Zou is presently serving as a Professor in the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He completed his B.Sc. and M. Sc. In Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2004 and 2007. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in the same field from the same institution in 2009. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He worked at Xiamen University and Tianjin University from 2009 to 2018 as an assistant professor, associate professor and professor. His research is in the areas of bioinformatics, machine learning and parallel computing. Several related works have been published by Science, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, etc. Google scholar showed that his more than 100 papers have been cited more than 5000 times.

Dr. Mohammad Alkhalil is currently an Interventional Fellow at the Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He obtained his BSc Intercalation and MD Dissertation from the University of Damascus in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Later, he received MSc (Cardiology) from the Trinity College Dublin in 2012 and DPhil (Cardiovascular Medicine) from the University of Oxford in 2018. Apart from this, he received MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2009 and a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) from the Northern Ireland Deanery in 2020. Moreover, he has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals and has been awarded at various platforms for his outstanding contribution in his field.

Dr Uzoma N. Ibebuogu is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Cardiovascular diseases and an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr Ibebuogu obtained his medical degree from the prestigious College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and subsequently underwent Interventional Cardiology fellowship and structural heart disease training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/the University of Los Angeles, California program. He has authored peer-reviewed articles on coronary atherosclerosis, which is one of his areas of interest, particularly in smokers and diabetic patients. His other research interests involve transcatheter aortic valve replacement therapies and ethnic disparities in the clinical presentation of acute myocardial infarction.

Dr Pupalan Iyngkaran is a qualified Cardiologist and subspecialist in Echocardiology, Cardiac Imaging Heart Failure at HeartWest, St Vincents and Western Private Hospitals. He is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University (Northern Territory Medical School) and Notre Dame University (Melbourne Medical School). Dr Iyngkaran has won independent medical grants from government and private bodies for works in cardiac imaging and heart failure. His research interests are aligned towards improving heart failure outcomes using epidemiological and imaging methods. He also collaborates with basic researches in this area.

Associate Professor, Dr. Sanjay Patel is a Staff Interventional Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He is also a Group Leader at the Heart Research Institute, Sydney and Clinical Associate Professor at the Sydney Medical School. He was awarded his MBBS (Hons 1) from the University of Sydney in 2000, completed his advanced cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 2006, and his doctoral studies in 2009, supported by a NHF postgraduate research scholarship. He then undertook postdoctoral studies at Stanford University, while simultaneously training in interventional cardiology at Stanford University Medical Centre (2009–2010), supported by an NHMRC CJ Martin Overseas Fellowship Grant.

Meiwan Chen received her PhD from Sun Yat-Sen University, China and was a visiting scholar from 2009 to 2010 at University of Mississippi. At present, she is an Associate Professor at Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau and specializes in biomaterial and nanomedicine, especially the development of targeted drug delivery systems for cancer therapy. The research ranges from design and synthesis of novel lipidic and polymeric carriers to mechanistic understanding of delivery barriers and to in vivo studies of relevant tumor models. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in SCI journals.

Professor Munish Garg is presently working as Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. He has 20 years of experience in academic and research. His research areas involve quality control and standardization of medicinal plants, development of novel drug delivery formulations using phytochemicals for enhanced therapeutic profile and bio-prospecting aspects of medicinal plants for socio-economic development. He has published more than 60 publications in reputed journals, 5 patents in progress, 3 published books and several book chapters published. He has secured financial grants of more than 15 million INR from government agencies. He is a member of several financial grant awarding agencies to screen research projects.

Dr. Jing-an Li is a professor of Zhengzhou University, China, and his research filed include: Drug delivery and biomaterials. So far, he has published more than 40 academic papers on international academic journals as the first author or corresponding author, including ACS Applied Materials & Interface, Applied Surface Science, Biomaterials Science, and Journal of Materials Chemistry B. He has been serving as the editorial board member of repute journals, such as Current Chinese Biotechnology (Section Editor), Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, Biomed Research International (Lead Guest Editor), Genetics and Molecular Research, Current Drug Delivery (Executive Guest Editor). He was also honored with repute awards, such as “China-Korea Young Scientist Award”, “IAAM Scientist Award”, “IAAM Medal”, and “Outstanding Reviewer Award” of repute journals. Detail information please see: Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jingan_Li2

Dr. Maria Abdul Ghafoor Raja received his Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Northern Border University, Rafha, Saudi Arabia. Her research interests include Liposomes, Nanoparticles, Gene delivery, Drug delivery, and novel targeting, Cell culture, 3D cell culture, Anticancer Drug Resistance, and Tumor targeted drug delivery. She has published several articles in ISI-indexed Journals with impact factor.

Dr. Ayhan SAVASER graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Pharmacy in 1988, He received his M.Sc. degree in Pharmaceutical Technology with his thesis on ‘The Studies iNH tablets available on the Turkish drug market’’ in Gulhane Mİlitary Medical Academy. He obtained his Ph.D. degree with ‘‘The Development, in vitro evaluation and bioequivalence of sustained release tablet formulations of diclofenac sodium’’ thesis same Academy in 1999. He worked as assistant professor between 2000-2006 and received his Associate Professor title in 2007 and his received Professor title in 2017. He is currently continuing his research work at the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Health Sciences, Gulhane Campus, Ankara. Dr. SAVASER has served as BA/BE Evaluation Commission member since 2011 and is the writer of 40 scientific articles, 6 book chapters.

Dr. Faiyaz Shakeel received a Master degree (M. Pharm) and a PhD in Pharmaceutics from Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University, New Delhi, India). At Jamia Hamdard. In 2011, he was awarded Young Scientist Award from the Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP). In March 2016, he has been promoted to Associate Professor at King Saud University. At King Saud University, He also had very good expertise in solubilization of drug molecules using cosolvency models. His research interest lies in the general area of Pharmaceutics and more recently in the development of nanoemulsions and self-nanoemulsifying formulations for therapeutic applications. He is author of over 180 journal articles and book chapter.

Dr M. Skwarczynski received a Master degree in biotechnology and a PhD in chemistry from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland). In 2004 he was awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a grant to conduct research on paclitaxel.His research interest lies in the general area of medicinal chemistry and more recently in the development of nanomaterials for biomedical applications, vaccine delivery strategies, including design, chemoselective synthesis, conformational studies, and immunological properties of lipopeptide and polymer assembled multivalent vaccine candidates. He is author of over 70 journal articles and book chapters.

Dr.Wei Cai received his Ph.D degree from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 2015. He is currently an associate professor at school of pharmaceutical science, Hunan University of Medicine. During 2017-2018, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University under the supervision of Prof.Yung-Chi Cheng. He is especially interested in metabolism and pharmacokinetics of traditional Chinese medicine. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Sagnik Chatterjee, currently working as senior research investigator in BBRC, Bangalore. His group is working on impact of transporters in disposition, toxicity and efficacy of molecules, in normal and in disease conditions. He did his PhD from KU Leuven, Belgium in exploring drug-induced cholestasis (2010-2014). He developed and validated a sandwich- cultured hepatocyte-based system, with externally added bile acids, that is widely accepted and recommended by International Transporter Consortium. Before PhD he worked with AstraZeneca India, in their drug metabolism group (2007-2009). He did his M. S (Pharm) from NIPER, Mohali, India in natural products chemistry (2005-2007). He has published in 9 peer-reviewed articles with present citations tally of 290.

Dr. Hui Ding is the associate Professor of Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She received her Ph.D. from Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China in 2009. Her research is in the areas of computational system biology. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals. Her publications have been cited over 3,406 times with H-index of 31 in Google Scholar (update in 2019.8).

Dr. Ianiro received his medical degree in 2009 summa cum laude at the Catholic University of Rome.He trained in gastroenterology at the same University. He is currently gastroenterologist at the Digestive Disease Center of the Fondazione A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy. He has since gone on to establish himself as a key clinical and translational investigator focusing mainly in the field of intestinal microbiota with 99 peer reviewed publications including some of the best referral journal in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, including NEJM, Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine, Gut, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, etc.). He was the secretary of two international consensus conferences on fecal microbiota transplantation. He was in the Young Talent Group, and now is in the Research Committee, of the UEG (United European Gastroenterology). Dr. Ianiro has received several research grants in support of his innovative research (the most recent from the Italian Ministry of Health as PI for a project entitled "Targeting gut microbiota to improve efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients withadvanced renal cell carcinoma").

Dr. Mohammad Amjad Kamal is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the King Fahd Medical Research Center (KFMRC), King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He is leading a highly productive global collaborative research team based from Novel Global Community Educational Foundation (NGCEF), Australia. Dr. Kamal's biochemical research in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, Type 2 diabetes and leukemia has culminated in more than 380 publications in internationally respected journals.Dr. Kamal was awarded a prestigious U2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000 by the University of Sydney. This three years highly competitive award funded his research on the "Inhibition of amido phosphoribosyltransferase by new antifolates". Amongst numerous projects, Dr. Kamal also collaborated on the molecular biological research project “Linkage of Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes” at the University of Technology, Sydney. Moreover, he is serving as an EiC/regional/editorial member/guest editor of several reputed scientific journals on honorable basis.

Dr. Supratik Kar is a research associate at Jackson State University, Mississippi, USA. He has completed his B. Pharm. (2008) and M. Pharm. (2010) degree from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India) securing first position in both degrees and earned his PhD (2015) from the Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India). Former visiting researcher at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). Has experience in molecular modeling studies for ten years. He has published 50 research and review articles, 9 book chapters till date with h-index 20. He has also coauthored 2 QSAR related books in Academic press and Springer. Reviewer of more than 15 reputed journals. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9411-2091.

Kei Kunimasa, (born December 25, 1981, Hyogo, Japan), studied medicine at Osaka University, graduating with an M.D. in 2006. He later also received a Ph.D. (2016) in medical science from Kobe University. While a graduate student, he researched cell competition using Drosophila melanogaster and found Sas (stranded at second) controls cell competition between normal cell and neighboring cancer cell (Nature. 2017), and he also researched cancer metabolism under Tatsuya Nagano (Cancer Science. 2018). From 2017, he worked at Osaka International Cancer Institute as senior stuff and researched clinical cancer genomics using next generation sequencing with human samples. He won the fund from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSJP)(2019) and Takeda science foundation(2019).

Dr. Marcello Maida attended the medical school at University of Palermo, where he graduated. He is a consultant gastroenterologist at S.Elia- Raimondi Hospital in Caltanissetta, Italy, member of the governing council of the Young Italian Gastroenterologists Association (AGGEI) and Director of the Multimedia Educational Platform of Italian Medical Schools of Gastroenterology (Gastrolearning). He is author of several scientific papers indexed on PubMed and published on impact factor journals. Dr. Maida’s research interests include several areas of liver diseases, including hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases, cirrhosis and non-invasive evaluation of chronic liver diseases.

Dr. Nagano obtained a Ph.D. from the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine (Kobe, Japan). Dr. Nagano also received M.D. from the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and has a 17 years’ experience as physician in general hospital. Currently Dr. Nagano is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. His present research field is clinical pharmacology in cancer pharmacotherapy. He has published more than 40 scientific publications and has 1 patent. Dr. Fujita is currently the Executive Guest Editor of this journal (Current Drug Metabolism).

Dr. Nakov is a consultant gastroenterologist at Tsaritsa Yoanna University Hospital, Sofia. He obtained a doctorate (PhD) in Gastroenterology from the Medical University of Sofia. Dr. Nakov is a member of Young Talents Group and Education Committee at United European Gastroenterology (UEG), a course director of UEG Summer School and a president at Association for young hepatogastroenterologists in Bulgaria.

Hilmi Orhan is a Professor in the Department of Toxicology at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Toxicology from Hacettepe University in 2000. He was a visiting fellow at Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands in 1995. During his Ph.D., he received a Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK) /NATO A2 grant and researched the Division of Molecular Toxicology from the same university on the biotransformation and toxicity of volatile anesthetics (1997–1999). Dr. Orhan has authored or co-authored 40 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 18 publications in local journals. He has taught toxicology to both graduate and undergraduate levels and has successfully supervised eight M.Sc. and several Ph.D., students.

Dr. Pereira is Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Regional University of Cariri (URCA). PhD in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE-RENORBIO. Has experience in Microbiology, Toxicology of Natural and Synthetic Products and Biosafety, acting on the following subjects: antibacterial activity, inflammation, toxicity and cancer. He is a reviewer for several international journals.

Dr. Lv-Hui Sun is a Full Professor in the Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science at Huazhong Agricultural University. Before taking the faculty position here, he worked as a Visiting Ph.D. student at the department of Animal Science at Cornell University from 2010 to 2012. He received a Ph.D. degree in Comparative Nutrition between Human and Animal from Sichuan Agricultural University in 2013 and B.S. degree in Animal Science from Wuhan Polytechnic University in 2007. His current research aims at understanding the molecular mechanisms of mycotoxins hepatotoxicity and immunotoxicity and dietary strategies to counteract the toxic effects of mycotoxins.

Dr. S.R. Tintino completed his graduation in Biological Sciences from the Regional University of Cairri. He further obtained a PhD in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Pernambuco. He is currently serving a Substitute Professor at the Regional University of Cairri-URCA and he is also a Coordinator of the Universal CNP project. He is a member of the research group of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Molecular Biology. He is experienced in the area of Microbiology, with emphasis on antimicrobial activity of natural products and isolated substances and in the Genetics of Microorganisms with emphasis on mechanisms of inhibition of bacterial efflux pumps. He also has an experience in studies of antioxidant activity and cytotoxic activity of natural products and isolated substances. He is a reviewer for several international journals.

Dr. Nuno Vale is an Invited Professor of Pharmacology (Pharmacokinetic and Drug Metabolism) at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto. His research interest lies at the intersection between Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacology, namely on the development of new conjugates with peptides and nanoparticles for drug delivery in cancer and central nervous system. His main research focus is also on the Pharmacokinetic and Drug Metabolism of approved drugs for drug repurposing, and in PBPK Modeling and Drug-Drug Interactions.

Dr. Yi Wang is a Professor in College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Zhejiang University. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Analysis from Zhejiang University in 2007. His laboratory is devoted to the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). He is especially interested in screening and identifying bioactive compounds from TCM as well as revealing their ADME properties and mechanism of action. Dr. Wang’s lab established a set of bioassays including cellular, zebrafish, and animal models. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, book and chapters.

Professor/Dr. Jiayu Zhang received his Ph.D degree PhD of pharmacognosy (Chemistry of Chinese Materia Medica) from Peking University. He is currently a professor at BIN ZHOU Medical University. During 2011-2019, he worked in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, which is a famous University of traditional Chinese medicine in China. He is especially interested in metabolism and pharmacokinetics of traditional Chinese medicine. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Xu is the Associate Professor at Faculty of Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology. He specializes in researches on pharmacology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and discovery and evaluation of effective components from Chinese Medicines. His research interests mainly include: (1) study of Chinese Medicines on diabetes; (2) effects and mechanism of natural products on cardio-cerebrovascular disease; (3) development and application of alive cell immobilized chromatography on the R&D of Chinese Medicines. He has been awarded prizes including the Second Prize of Science and Technology Invention Award Category of the 2016 Macau Science and Technology Award (the second awardee), and Third Prize of 2011 Science and Technology Award of Jiangsu Province (the seventh awardee), etc. for academic performance.

Dr Dilipkumar Pal received his B.Pharm, M Pharm, and PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He also obtained his Post Doctorate from “The University of Sydney”, Australia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidas Viswavidyalaya (A Central University), India. He has won several awards due to his contributions in Science both nationally and internationally. He has published more than 100 research papers, 28 book chapters, 12 review articles, and 112 abstract proceedings in both national and international journals. Besides, he is a Reviewer of 27 scientific journals and an Editorial Board Member of 29 scientific journals respectively.

Luciana Scotti received her Ph.D. in Cosmetology and Molecular Modeling at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She made 3 years of Post-Doctorate in Pharmaceuticals at the Laboratory of Planning and Synthesis of Potentially Active Chemotherapies in Tropical Endemics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USP. She has experience in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Molecular acting mainly in the following areas: natural products, Molecular Modeling, QSAR, and Chemometrics. She is the professor of the Post-Graduate Program of Bioactive Natural and Synthetic Products of the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.

Dr. Hilal Zaid is presently serving as a Head of Al-Qasemi Educational Research Center, Al-Qasemi Academic College, Baka, Israel. He completed his M.Sc. from the department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israelin 1996. He further obtained PhD from the same university in 2005. He is also a Management Committee member of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action N°CA15129, titled "Diagnosis, Monitoring and Prevention of Exposure-Related Noncommunicable Diseases (DiMoPEx)".

Dr. Angel Guillermo Bracamonte received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Argentina (UNC). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at INFIQC (Institute of Physics and chemical Research of Cordoba, Argentine) Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of Cordoba, Argentina (UNC). Besides, he is a reviewer of journals like; Journal of Material Chemistry C, Journal of Nanophotonics, Scientific Reports, Chemical Communications, and Current Nanomaterials. His areas of expertise include Analytical Chemistry, Hybrids Nanomaterials, Nanophotonics, Biophotonics and Genomics, Nanomedicine.

Dr. Ram Gupta joined Pittsburg State University as an Assistant Professor in 2013. Before joining to Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research focus on green energy production and storage using conducting polymers and composites, nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Gupta has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented/attended more than 100 national/international conferences. He is a member of editorial board and reviewer for various leading science journals. Dr. Gupta has received several internal and external (NSF, DoE, KINBRE, USA) funding to promote research and educational activities.

Rachid Masrour, from Morocco, actually, is research professor in the National School of Applied Sciences at the University of Cadi Ayyad, Safi, Morocco where he has been a faculty member since April 2011. Dr. Rachid Masrour completed his Ph.D. in March 2006 at University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco. His research interests lie in the area of Magnetism of materials and Condensed Matter Physics. He has 220 articles published in Thomson Reuters and 9 book chapters published in international journal. He participated in more 70 Moroccan and international congress. He's a Referee of a several articles and also Editorial Board Members in different international journal. He has a lot of collaboration with laboratories from abroad.

Dr Ahmed Thabet Mohamed is currently a Professor and an Associate Professor at The Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Energy, Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt. He received PhD (Electrical Engineering) from The Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of El-Minia Engineering, El-Minia University, Egypt. His research interests include Nano-Science Engineering Materials, Utilization of Renewable Energy, High Voltage Engineering, Distribution network enhancement planning, Switchgear and Protection Models, Energy Engineering Applications, and Electric Power Quality. Due to his outstanding contribution, he received several awards and has published many articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Abhay Kumar Singh is presently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his M.Sc. from C.S.J.M. University Kanpur, India in 2000. He further obtained a Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 2009. His research interests include Chalcogenide photovoltaics, Synthesis and characterizations of CZTS, CZTSSe photovoltaic nanomaterials, Microstructure –glass structure and physical propretés corrélations. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Charles Ahamefula Ubani is a Ph.D. graduate (Physics) of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) and a holder of a Master's Degree in Energy Technology (UKM). As a graduate research assistant (2009 - 2012), he supported research students in setting up experimental apparatus, edit papers for publication in impact factor journals and indexed conferences. Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) retained him as a postdoctoral research fellow since his Ph.D. program in 2013 to sustain research projects on sensitized solar cells. He is also a certified reviewer of the Solar Energy Journal, Applied Physics Journal, Royal Society of Chemistry Advance and Indian Journal of Physics. He is very keen to contribute his experience to strengthen Current Graphene Science.

Shicai Xu, PhD, Professor, currently serves in Shandong Key Laboratory of Biophysics, Dezhou University. He received his PhD in College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, PR China in 2014. His research focuses on biosensors based on nanomaterials and nanodevices, including: preparing graphene; field-effect transistor (FET), fluorescence, optical fiber biosensors, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; and the fabrication and applications of low-dimension nanomaterials. Prof. Xu has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a coinventor of 8 patent applications. His total citation is 1449 and h-index is 23 according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Liu is an Assistant Professor of the Department of neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, centered on brain tumor therapeutics, brain organoid research, and drug screening. His doctoral training was in Neurosurgery at Central South University, and stem cell research in Houston Methodist Research Institute, Cornell University. A major goal of his research is basic-translation-clinical research by utilizing in vitro and in vivo cultured and primary models of the brain to study the molecular pharmacology and mechanisms of glioma and neuropsychiatric diseases pathogenesis. He published more than 11 original papers on identifying molecular markers in brain diseases and drug screening using brain organoid models.

Dr. Jianyong Xu obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 2016) in the field of Medicine from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Dr. Xu is currently working as Assistant Professor, in the School of Medicine, at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of stem cell biology, genome editing, gene therapy and their therapeutic applications. Dr. Xu, as an author/co-author, has published more than 20 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, and his documents have received over 2,290 citations.

Dr. Hao Zhou is a cardiologist in Chinese PLA General Hospital, focusing on the pathology and treatment of acute/chronic cardiorenal damage such as myocardial infarction, cardiorenal syndrome and diabetic cardiomyopathy. After vigorous training in University of Wyoming, Dr. Zhou have acquired the basic experimental techniques involved in molecular/cellular biology and physiological testing. His major area of research is focused on cardiac pathophysiology in acute reperfusion injury, diabetes, obesity and aging. His laboratory in PLA general hospital is well versed with molecular biology techniques including oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, autophagy and apoptosis. Much of his current focuses are on the pathophysiological consequence of cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury on metabolic and mitochondrial functions. The goal of his research is to better understand the pathogenesis of cardiac diseases as well as to develop strategies (such as melatonin and SGLT2i) to lessen myopathic disorders under these conditions. He has gained broad training and background in clinical cardiology and experimental cardiac physiology. He has extensive experience in cardiac function and structure assessment with an emphasis on mitophagy function and mitochondrial stress- related myocardial damage. As PI on several grants, he has successfully administered many research projects and collaborated with other researchers.

Dr David N. Levy is presently serving as an Associate Professor, Department of Basic Science New York University College of Dentistry, USA. He obtained a PhD in Immunology from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA in 1994. He has also been recognized with awards such as Paulette Goddard NYU Junior Faculty Development Fellowship and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Scholar Award. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr.Gaurisankar Sa obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 1990) in Biochemistry from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Sa is currently affiliated with Bose Institute, Kolkata, India, as Senior Professor in the Division of Molecular Medicine. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of Tumor Immunology and Cancer Biology. Dr. Sa, as an author/co-author, has published more than 50 articles in various journals of international repute, having over 1,325 total citations.

Mudit Tyagi obtained PhD in Molecular Virology from the Department of Molecular Medicine, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy. Currently, he is an Associate Professor, Center for Translational Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. His areas of scientific expertise include HIV, HIV latency, HIV Transcription, HIV Replication, Epigenetics, Drugs of abuse, Cocaine, Biochemistry. Besides, he is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases whereas Editorial Board Member of Journal of Applied and Theoretical Physics Research, JSM Tropical Medicine and Research, Pathogen & Infectious Disease, SM Tropical Medicine, Journal Austin Immunology, Austin Neurology Neurosciences, Global Vaccines & Immunology, and The Scientific Pages of HIV and AIDS. Also, he has published several research papers in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Chunxiang “Kevin” Zhang, MD, PhD, FACC, is presently serving as a tenured Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine. He has over 20 years of experience and expertise in the areas of basic, translational and clinical cardiovascular research. Dr. Zhang had worked as the Vice Chairman for Research at New Jersey Medical School. From 2010-2016, He had worked at Rush University as the Chairman of the Pharmacology Department. Dr. Zhang’s research team is a pioneering group to explore the roles of Non-coding RNAs in HIV and anti-HIV-drug-induced aging; cardiovascular biology and cardiovascular diseases. He has obtained over n$20 million research grants from NIH, AHA and ADA. Dr. Zhang’s current research programs are focused on non-coding in atherosclerosis & restenosis, myocardial infarction, cardiac hypertrophy, cardiovascular aging and diabetic cardiovascular complications.

Dr. Giuseppe De Vincentis, M.D., Ph.D., has more than 25 years of experience in Nuclear Medicine. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine, in the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He has authored/co-authored over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles, 10 proceedings articles, more than 100 abstracts and several invited lectures, dealing with several fields of application of nuclear medicine techniques, such as cardiology, pneumology, muscular disease, oncology, clinical application of new imagers, therapeutical applications of alpha emitters nuclides (TaT), etc.

Dr Ayush Dogra is currently working as CSIR-NPDF at CSIR- CSIO (Research Lab- Government of India) at Chandigarh, India. He has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, UIET, PANJAB UNIVERSITY. His doctoral research focuses on devising a novel and innovative, market-oriented mechanisms for medical image fusion. He has published numerous papers in well-reputed journals and conferences. He is currently doing editorial/reviewing work for various highly reputed SCI/SCIE journals. His research areas primarily are image fusion, image enhancement, image registration and image denoising.

Dr. Lingzhi Hu is presently serving as a Director at United Imaging Healthcare America, Houston. He completed his B.S in Optical Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2008. He further obtained a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2012. His research interests include lead cross-functional team to develop whole-body PET/MR and PET/MR insert, responsible for system-level design, clinical application, and technology road map of UIH PET/MR, and Core PET/MR technology development including MR pulse sequence, PET reconstruction, shielding design, and EMC design. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Shu Jia received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA. His research interests include Systems Biophotonics, Super-Resolution and Miniaturized Optical Microscopy, and Computational Imaging. Due to his outstanding contribution, he received several awards and has published many articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Hong Lin received his PhD in Computer Science and was a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University, an assistant research officer at the National Research Council, Canada, and a software engineer at Nokia, Inc. Dr. Lin is currently a professor in University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) Houston, TX. His research interests include data analytics, human-centered computing, and parallel/distributed computing. He is a senior member of the ACM.

Dr. Monjoy Saha is working as a research scientist at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University-School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He has a strong background in biomedical engineering. Dr. Saha has completed his Ph.D. in machine learning and medical imaging from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. He is serving as an invited reviewer of many journals including IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Elsevier, Journal of Digital Imaging, Springer, etc. His main focused area is biomedical data analysis using deep learning. He has published many papers in this domain.

Paolo Spinnato studied ‘Medicine and Surgery’ at the University of Bologna (2001-2007). He attended residency (Radiology) at the University of Bologna (2008-2012) and graduated with a score of 70/70 cum laude. His scientific thesis in the field of musculoskeletal oncology was later published in the ‘European Journal of Radiology.’ Since 2012, he works at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna as a radiology specialist. His research and clinical activity focus on both diagnostic and interventional radiology. His main field of expertise is in musculoskeletal radiology. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications (33 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 2 book chapters and more than 60). Dr. Spinnato serves as a reviewer for several medical journals (‘Academic Radiology’, ‘Cancer Management and Research’, ‘BMJ Case Reports’, ‘Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology’, ‘BMC Medical Imaging’).

Dr. Galileo Escobedo’s main research interest is focused on the immunometabolic mechanisms involved in obesity and insulin resistance, especially in the bionomial mother- infant. Dr. Escobedo currently supervises several students of B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. programs as well as postdoctoral fellows, and has been awarded with research grants from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) and the Marie Curie International Research Program of the European Community. Dr. Escobedo has published more than 60 original research papers and reviews in JCR international journals and written several book chapters related to the inflammatory response in obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Nazmul Haque has completed his PhD in the field of regenerative medicine from the University of Malaya in 2017. After that, he served at the University of Malaya as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for one year followed by joining in MAHSA University as a Senior Lecturer. Because of his excellence in research, he was awarded as High Impact Research Bright Spark Scholar by the University of Malaya. His research interests include Stem Cell Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Cell & Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Toxicology, Oral Health, Nutraceuticals, Natural Products, and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). He has published several articles, book chapters, and abstracts in distinguished journals.

Dr. Yan Kong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Dr. Kong received his Ph.D. degree in Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. His research mainly focuses on neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, epigenetics and noncoding RNAs.

Chiara Sassoli graduated in Biological Sciences with summa cum laude at the University of Florence, Italy in 1999. In 2000 -2001 she was Guest Researcher at Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Gaithersburg-MD-USA. In 2005 she obtained the Ph.D. degree in Human Morphology and Morphogenesis from the University of Florence, Italy. From 2005 to 2009 she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow and from 2009 she is Assistant Professor of Human Anatomy at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Anatomy and Histology, University of Florence, Italy. Research interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in tissue repair/regeneration especially at skeletal and cardiac muscle and bone tissue;effects of different factors (sphingolipids, relaxin, platelet-rich plasma), mesenchymal stromal/stem cells and photobiomodulation/Low Level Laser Therapy on tissue healing

Somayeh Shahrokhi received her PhD in immunology from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran at 2010. She joined Lorestan University of Medical Sciences and she is currently an Associate professor of Immunology. She has two major research interest; Immuno-oncology and stem cell research. The cancer research studies started by compounds screening to test for future clinical applications. This was followed by studying breast cancer in animal and human studies. Her main accomplishments include; nationally recognized as an outstanding life science researcher, published more than 20 peer review articles, a book chapter, a patent and guest editor of special issue.

Prof. Zhang joined in Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital after she received her PhD in 2004. She did one year of postdoctoral work from 2005 to 2006 at Rothschild Hospital and University Paris 12 in Paris. She has been the deputy director of Tianjin Medical University Eye Institute and the director of Ocular Inflammation and Immunology Department of Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital since 2012. She specializes in the diagnosis and therapy of ocular immunological diseases including uveitis and scleritis. Her research interests are mainly in developing new therapy for refractory ocular immunological diseases and stem cell therapy for ocular disease.

Dr Zhu is an Associate Professor of Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University. He is also the Executive Director of the Faculty of Gastroenterology in Capital Medical University. Dr Zhu’s work is focused on the discovery of novel biomarkers to detect GI cancer at an early stage as well as noncancerous GI disorders such as IBS. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 10 book chapters. He is also the Co-Founder and Secretary-General of Big Data Management Branch of China Quality Association for Pharmaceuticals.

D. Kayani MA received his PhD from University of Wales Swansea (United Kingdom). He is Professor & Head at Department of Biosciences COMSATS University Islamabad (Pakistan). He has also served as Chairman of the same department during 2015 to 2018. Dr Kayani has interests in population genetics and cancer genetics. He is involved in teaching and research on cancer genetics, at both under-graduate and graduate level, since 2002. Focus of his research is understanding the pathogenesis of different cancers prevalent in Pakistani population. Different cancers are highly prevalent in Pakistan and the age at diagnosis is decreasing with the passage of time. This is not only increasing the disease burden in the population but also making the young population vulnerable to cancer and its debilitating effects. Elucidation of importance of cancer genetics will not only help in understanding the pathogenesis of this deadly disease but also eventually in discovering suitable biomarkers and resultantly improved treatment modalities.

Researcher acting in the multidisciplinary team about Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis, being one of the responsible by Medical Genetics studies, including the studies of Asthma prevalence and severity, and in Cystic Fibrosis, with studies on CFTRmutations screening, cystic fibrosis diagnosis and clinical modulation by modifier genes. Is responsible for the statistical analysis of: (i) modifier genes and severity of respiratory diseases, (ii) methods/tools for Cystic Fibrosis diagnosis, (iii) epidemiological analysis regarding respiratory diseases, (iv) risk factor for cancer, (v) bacteria modulation on clinical severity of Cystic Fibrosis, (vi) and in the use of Mutifactor Dimensionallity Reduction tool. In the total, more than ninety studies were published in the area of genetics and respiratory diseases in the last four years. Actually, I act as a biostatistician in the Brazilian Study Groups for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and Medical Genetics Group.

Dr. Neeraj Mishra is working as a Professor in Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Gwalior from July, 2019. He worked as a professor in pharmaceutics at ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga from June 2012 to May 2019. He has completed his B. Pharm (2000), M. Pharm (2003) and Ph.D. (2011) in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar (M.P.). He was qualified in National Level Test GATE conducted by IIT, Kanpur in 2001. He is having more than Sixteen years teaching/ research experience at post graduate. He is working as a brand ambassador of Bentham Science, USA. He has supervised more than 30 M Pharm students. He is having 48 International and 24 National Publication typically in recent concept of novel drug delivery system, particularly in vaccine delivery and drug targeting. He has also written 5 books chapter in national and International publisher (Nova Science Publishers).

Dr. Luís Cláudio Nascimento da Silva is leading a research group at CEUMA University (UNICEUMA, Maranhão state, São Luís city, Brazil). He holds a BSc in Biomedical Science (2008), MSc (2010), and PhD in Biological Science (2013). In 2019, he received the prize ‘Senior research in Biological Science’ from Maranhão state in recognition of his actuation in the field. His research interests include the prospection and action mechanism of antimicrobial compounds and the studies about bacterial resistance. For this reason, his group also employs murine and alternative models (using invertebrate hosts) of microbial infections. He has acted as a reviser for several international journals (such as Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Molecules), and served as a guest editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Pharmacology. Currently, he has published over 55 research manuscripts in distinguished journals.

Dr Jesus Alberto Olivares-Reyes received his PhD in Biochemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, School of Chemistry, Mexico in 1997. He did his Postdoctoral training in Mechanisms of Signal Transduction in 1997-2002 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of Biochemistry, CINVESTAV, Mexico and a Full Professor, (CINVESTAV-3C), Department of Biochemistry, CINVESTAV, Mexico. He has published more than 30 scientific papers in well-reputed journals. Besides, due to his outstanding contributions, he has won several awards in his research field. Also, he has been an editorial board member of the Frontiers in Vascular Physiology since 2010.

Dr. Fotios Sampsonas is currently working as a Locum Consultant of Respiratory Medicine in Patras University Hospital (with clinical and academic commitments). Presently, he is awarded a Scholarship from the Hellenic Respiratory Society that further supports the clinical service and his academic commitments. Previously, he worked as a Clinical Lecturer of Respiratory Medicine in Galway University Hospitals. He is actively involved in teaching medical students respiratory and general internal medicine. Dr. Sampsonas has around 34 Medline Publications to his credit.

Suowen Xu, Ph.D., is a natural product pharmacologist. Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. did postdoc studies in biochemistry at NHLBI/NIH, followed by a second postdoc in vascular biology at University of Rochester. Currently, Dr. Xu is Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Rochester. He is a principal investigator interested in identifying novel therapeutic targets and molecular interventions of cardiovascular diseases. He was also an adjunct faculty member (Associate Professor) in the School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland. He is an editorial board member of 4 journals and serves as reviewers for over 50 journals.

Dr. Serkan Yilmaz is serving as Professor, in Ankara University Faculty of Health Sciences.He did his Ph.D in Genetics from Gazi University, Turkey. He is an official member of a number of international societies. He received awards from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Gazi University and Ankara University. His research interests are genetics, toxicology, genetic diseases, pharmacology, toxicology and Molecular biology.

Dai-Min Zhang obtained MD in Medical Science in 1994 from the Wannan Medical College, China. He did his Master in Cardiac Electrophysiology in 2003 from the Kunming Medical College, China. He also did PhD in Physiology and Biophysics in 2008 from the Suzhou University, China. Besides, he did his Postdoctoral Research in Cardiovascular Diseases and Physiology & Biophysics from Mayo Clinic, Rochester and the University of California at Davis, the USA in 2010 and 2014 respectively. Currently, Dr Zhang is a Professor at the Department of Cardiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China. He has published several articles in well-reputed journals. Besides, he has won numerous awards in his relevant field of expertise.

The research carried out by Dr. Alfonso Alfaro-Rodríguez has focused in the study of the chemistry of the brain. His studies are centered in the search for neuronal damage mechanisms caused by neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, brain injuries, and currently nociception. He has also dabbled in the study of several antiepileptic and antidepressant drugs over the central nervous system. The role of monoamines like serotonin and acetylcholine along with several catecholamines at neuronal and molecular level in the development of neurodegenerative diseases has been a central topic of his research. The research over the mechanisms of brain damage by means of different neurotoxic pathways unchained by neurodegenerative diseases has led him to successfully explore the role of neuroprotective drugs in a myriad of animal models. With his research he has allowed the assessment of neuronal damage and the disabilities caused by these diseases. At present he has centered in the development of novel research protocols over the mechanisms of pain and the elaboration of diagnostic strategies for the timely diagnostic of it; by means of the employment of new drugs that could improve quality of life of patients suffering of chronic pain.

Dr. Gjumrakch Aliev received his MD in 1982 from the Baku Medical University (former USSR) with cum laude. Then, he accomplished his Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Diseases from the prestigious Russian Academy of the Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia in 1989 with cum laude. He received postdoctoral training with Professor G. Burnstock at the University College of London. He authored and co-authored more than 500 publications in the fields of neurodegenerative disease research (Alzheimer's disease), as well as cardio-and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, and electron microscopy. He is an outstanding teacher, scholar, and a renowned scientist in the area of cellular.

Celia Regina Carlini holds a degree in Biological Sciences - Medical Modality from the Federal University of São Paulo (1978), a master's degree (1981) and a doctorate (1985), both in Molecular Biology - Protein Chemistry from the Federal University of São Paulo (1985), Brazil. From 1993 to 1995 she pereformed postdoctoral studies at the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, USA. She was associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1983-1997) and full professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1997-2012). She is currently Associate Professor at the School of Medicine and principal investigator at the Brain Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in the city of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. She is a Full Member (C. Biologicas) of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (elected in 2009).

Jiachun Feng received his Ph.D. degree from Bethune University of Medical Sciences, China in 1994. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada from 2004 till 2005. He is Director of the Department of Neurology, the First Bethune Hospital, Jilin University. Dr. Feng is an Associate Editor of “Journal of Apoplexy and Nervous Diseases” and “Medical information - Neurology channel” whereas he is in the Editorial Board of the “Chinese Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases” and “Chinese Journal of Stroke.” Besides, he has published several articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Amgad Hanna obtained his M.B.B. Ch (Medical Bachelor & Bachelor of Chirurgie) in 1990 from Cairo University, Egypt, and then his D.I.S (Inter-university Diploma of specialization) in Neurosurgery in 1999 from University of Rennes I, France. He is currently Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, in the Department of Neurosurgical Surgery, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Hanna specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders related to the spine and [peripheral nerves. Additionally, he has experience in complex spine surgery, treatment of intradural tumors, and minimally invasive spine surgery and kyphoplasty. Dr. Hanna has published over 35 articles in various journals of international repute.

Runming Jin obtained his M.D. in 1984 and Ph. D. of Pediatrics in 1995 from Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China. He received his postdoctoral training in Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a full professor and the head of pediatric department of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. And he also severs as the chairman of Hubei Pediatric Association. Professor Jin is the principal investigator of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and many other researches. He is in the editorial board of many prestige journals in China. He has published more than 200 academic papers, and is the editor of a number of pediatric teaching materials and reference books. He is focused on blood cancers, inherited and metabolic diseases in pediatrics. The central nervous system involvement in pediatric cancers is one of his research areas.

Woon-Man Kung received his M.D. degree from the School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (TMU), Taipei, Taiwan in 1999. In 2012, he received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the College of Medicine and College of Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Kung now serves as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in the Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Health Promotion, College of Education, Chinese Culture University (CCU), Taipei, Taiwan. He further participates as an International Membership of the professional association at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). He currently works in the Editorial Board of World Journal of Clinical Cases and Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Concurrently, he serves as a Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Oncology, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology , Frontiers in Plant Science , Frontiers in Neuroscience , Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience , and Frontiers in Genetics . In addition, he has also been the Lead Guest Editor for Molecular Imaging and Behavioural Neurology, and act as an ad-hoc reviewer for a number of prestigious scientific journals.

Dr. Cheng Luo obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineer from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Currently Dr. Luo is a full Professor in school of life science and technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. In 20 years of professional experience, he has signifivanlty contributed to the teaching and training of Neuroimage graduate and studying in therapeutic need Neuroimage. His current research focuses on the methodological development of multi-modal neuroimages and clinical applications. Dr. Luo remained the member of CSBME, OHBM and ISMRM and editorial member of 5 journals. He has over 100 peer- reviewed scientific publications which have received > 3000 citations (h-index = 29). Research Interest: Brain Connectivity, MRI, simultaneous EEG and fMRI, Neurological and mental disease includes: Epilepsia, Schizophrenia, AD.

Dr. Anna B. Moszczynska is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University. Detroit, MI, USA. She received her PhD in Neurochemistry. Institute of Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada. Her current research focuses on the discovery of novel molecular and epigenetic drug targets to attenuate methamphetamine (METH) abuse in heavy users of the drug. Her primary research interest is parkin and proteasome, two components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, as drug targets in MUD whereas her secondary research interest lies in transposable elements (rat LINE-1 an Identifier element) and their role in mediating METH neurotoxicity. Moreover, she has published several articles in well-reputed national/international journals.

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.

María de la Luz Navarro Angulo is currently a Full Professor at the Facultad de Medicina. Depto. de Fisiología, UNAM, Mexico. He received his Ph. D. in Physiological Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. UACPyP- Center for Neurobiology. México. His research interests include molecular aspects of sleep and memory, diurnal variations in neuroprotection, and participation of the cannabinergic system in the development of the metabolic syndrome. He has published 44 original research articles, 1 review articles, 3 disseminations and 11 book chapters in several national/ international journals.

Dr. Asher Ornoy Graduated at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. He is Training in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Neurology and Child Development in Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem. Teratology training in Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio and at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is the Author of about 400 peer reviewed publications, about 300 abstracts and 6 scientific books. His Research focuses on child development and on animal models of congenital malformations and neurodevelopmental disorders. He also acted as Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, Embryology, Teratology and Medical Neurobiology at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. Currently He is a Professor and the head of Morphological Sciences and Teratology, Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Israel.

My main research interest and expertise is to translate neuroscience findings into diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for neuropsychiatric disorders. I hold a permanent faculty position at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and I have participated as a Principal Investigator on several national and internationally funded research. I successfully administered the operations and resources of my research projects (e.g. staffing, research conducts, budget), collaborated with other researchers, and produced many peer-reviewed publications. As a result of these previous experiences, I am aware of the importance of frequent communication among project members and sound project management from timelines, to resources, and funding. I have a broad background in neuroscience and psychiatry and I have a demonstrated execution and implementation of successful and productive projects in the fields of translational medicine /health. I have the expertise, leadership and motivation necessary to successfully to consult on project design and application.

Dr. Fabiola M. Ribero is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She received her PhD in Biochemistry and Immunology, UFMG, Brazil. Following her PhD, she went on for her post-doctorate studies at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Dr. Ribeiro’s research focuses mainly on investigating the cellular and molecular neurobiochemical mechanisms inherent to Huntington’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, she opened new research lines encompassing the neuroimmunomodulatory aspects of Schizophrenia and Zika virus infection effects into brain tissue. Dr. Ribeiro has published several scientific articles in journals of international repute.

Prof. Yuan Shi graduated from Third Military Medical University and Chongqing Medical University, \ and obtained MD and PhD degree respectively. Major research work by Prof. Yuan Shi and his group are on neonatal respiratory diseases and brain injury. He is the chief of Department of Neonatology with 300 neonatal beds, Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University. In 2019, this department admitted over 12,000 newborn infants, which is indicated to have the biggest neonatal patient numbers in China. Prof. Yuan Shi has published a few scientific articles in some important scientific journals including Pediatrics, Chest, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics, Archives of Disease in Childhood, and Neonatology. Prof. Yuan Shi serves as associate editor for BMC Pediatrics, section editor for Current Neuropharmacology, guest editor for Frontiers in Pediatrics and CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets.

Prof. Tsang is a Chair Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and the Head of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was also appointed Cally Kwong Mei Wan Professor in Psychosocial Rehabilitation in 2018. Prof. Tsang’s research focuses on neuropsychiatric rehabilitation for people with severe mental illness (SMI) and integrative medicine over the past two decades. He has altogether secured more than 70 million research grants and more than academic 200 publications. Prof. Tsang currently works as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry and Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, and he was the Associate Editor of American Journal of Occupational Therapy for seven years. He also served as guest editors and reviews of many high-quality journals, such as Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, BMC Medicine and Current Neuropharmacology.

Qiang Wang obtained a PhD in Psychiatric Genetics from Mental Health Center, Faculty of Medicine, West China, University of Medical Sciences, P.R. China. Currently, he is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers in several well-reputed journals. He has won several awards such as Academic and Technical Leader and Reserve Talent of Sichuan Province, Academic Leader and Reserve Talent, Health Commission of Sichuan Province, High-Level Overseas Talent of Sichuan Province, Outstanding Medical Worker for 2013-2014, Sichuan University, and Advanced Individual for 2013, West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Besides, he is an Editor of the journals like PloS One, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and JSM schizophrenia whereas a Reviewer of the journals including Schizophrenia Bulletin, Translational Psychiatry, Scientific Reports, American Journal of medical genetics(neuropsychiatry), PloS One, Frontiers in genetics, Schizophrenia Research, and BMC Psychiatry.

Dr. Yu Feng Wang received MD. & Ph.D. (Neurobiology) from Fukui Medical University (now University of Fukui Faculty of Medicine), Fukui, Japan in 1993-1997. Currently, he is a Professor of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. Dr. Wang has been the Editor of Translational Biomedicine, Mathews Journal of Neurology, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience and a Guest Associate Editor in Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Endocrinology. Also, he has published more than 30 articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Wang XP is a Professor and Director of Neurology St Luke Hospital at Shanghai JiaoTong University Medical School, also serves as the consultant expert of Shanghai International Medical Center. His clinical practice and research interests focus on Movement Disorders, neuro-degeneration, Wilson disease, sleep medicine, neuro-psychiatry, cognition, and Traditional Chinese medicine . He participates on invited review by National Natural Foundation of China, journal Lancet/Lancet Neurology, Curr Neuropharmal, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, CMJ, Chin J Neurol. He has been appointed as MDS-AOS Leadership: Officer and Executive Member Since Sept. 2019. His research has been funded by National Natural Foundation of China three times plus International Cooperation program, and Shanghai JiaoTong University Medical School Brain Innovation Plan 2015.

Dr Weilin Xu is working as a Neurosurgeon in the Second affiliated hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China. He was a PhD student in Neurosurgery at the Zhejiang University, China and obtained M.D. in Neurosurgery from the PLA general hospital, Beijing, China. He has published more than 30 papers in distinguished journals.

Professor Chuntao Yang received his M.D. in Pathology and Pathophysiology from Sun Yat-sen University, China. He did postdoctoral training on Chemistry in Washington State University, US. In July 2011, he joined the faculty at Guangzhou Medical University. The core of his research interests comprises the discovering of therapeutic targets related to diabetic complications and cancer, through bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry and cellular biology. His area of research is to explore the significance of hydrogen sulfide and its related modification of biomacromolecules in metabolic diseases and cancer.

Dr Cheng Zhou is an Associate Professor at the West China Hospital of Sichuan University. His research interests include Pharmacology of anaesthetics and analgesics and have published over 60 articles in this field. He completed his PhD in 2013 and is a scientific member of Society of Neuroscience, The New York Academy of Science, Chinese Society of Anesthesiologists and Chinese Society of Pharmacology. His other research interests involve the study of Neuroscience, Ion channels, Anesthetic mechanisms and Pharmacology.

Dr. Patrizia Bocchetta received Chemical Engineering Degree from University of Palermo in the year 1999 and the PhD in 2003 from Politecnico of Milano. In 2012, she became an Assistant Professor of Applied Electrochemistry at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Salento. Her main research interests focuses on (i) electrocatalytic materials for oxygen reduction reaction; (ii) novel proton exchange membranes for H 2 /O 2 fuel cells; (iii) porous anodic alumina; (iv) in-situ spectroelectrochemistry; (v) synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials; (vi) conductive and bio-compatible polymers; (vii) zn-air batteries; (viii) chitosan-based materials for energy conversion and sensors.

Prof. Yu Duan obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 2001) in microelectronics and solid-state electronics from Jilin University, China. Prof. Duan is currently employed as Professor, in the College of Electronic Science & Engineering, at Jilin University. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas / fields of organic semiconductors and optoelectronics. Other research areas include printing nanoparticle, AgNW, and graphene. Prof. Duan, as an author/co-author, has published more than 100 articles in various journals of international repute, and his documents have received total citations of over 1,160.

Zhixing Gan obtained his B.S. in Applied Physics in 2010 from Northeastern University, China, and then received his Ph.D. degree at Nanjing University in 2015. After that, he joined School of Physical Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University as a principal investigator. His primary research interests include photothermal effect and photoluminescence of novel nanomaterials, such as carbon nanomaterials, graphene, 2D materials, and perovskites.

Wu-Gui Jiang received a B.S. in Refrigeration Engineering, M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and Ph.D. in Material Processing Engineering from Nanchang University, China. Currently, he is a Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor at the Nanchang Hangkong University, China. His research interests focus on Nanomechanics of materials and devices, Composite mechanics, and Computational methods of modeling material behavior. He has published several articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Natalia V. Kamanina is the Head of the Laboratory for Photo Physics of Media with Nano Objects at Vavilov State Optical Institute and is also currently working as a Professor of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI.” She has an interest in the areas of investigations on inorganic soft materials of the UV and IR range, coatings, organic conjugated materials, liquid crystals, laser-matter interaction, nanotechnology, fullerenes, and biological objects. She has an experience in nanoparticles doping process of organics, in recording of amplitude-phase thin gratings in thin films as well as in developing of liquid crystal (LC) cells and spatial light modulators; she has an experience in optical limiting effect of laser radiation over visible and infrared spectral ranges, in medical applications of LC structures to orient human blood cell also. She has published more than 200 scientific papers, 5 books and 7 handbooks for the students. In parallel to her scientific activity, she has been lecturing since 2001.

Dr. Brajesh Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, TATA College, Chaibasa, India. He received Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, India. His research interest is in the development of sustainable and ecofriendly techniques for: (a) natural product extraction, purification and analysis, (b) natural polymers, (c) peptide chemistry, (d) microwave and ultrasound assisted organic synthesis, (e) nanoparticles synthesis and their applications for environmental remediation, (f) active films of organic solar cells, (g) nanomedicine, (h) sensors, and (i) organic synthesis. Dr. Brajesh Kumar has been credited for different national and international fellowships and he has also worked as a faculty member in various universities of India, Ecuador and South Korea.

Dr K.Ashokkumar is currently working as an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, Sathyabama University. He received a PhD in Grid Computing from the Sathyabama University (2016). His research interests include Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Data Analytics, and Web Services. He has published more than 40 scientific papers including research/review/chapters in distinguished journals.

Prof. Wanwan Li obtained his PhD in Materials Science from Shanghai University of China in 2004, then he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering & State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2005, where he was promoted to a Professor in 2013. During 2012 to 2013, he joined the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (LOMIN) at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) as a visiting scholar. His research concerns the design and fabrication of functional nanomaterials and their applications on biomedical diagnosis & therapy. He has published more than 70 articles in scientific peer-reviewed international journals.

Dr. Liqiang Wang is an associate professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He got his BS and MS degrees both from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in materials science in 2006. Then he became a graduate student in department of materials science and engineering in Shanghai JiaoTong University, where he got his Ph.D. in 2009. His research focus is towards preparing, processing and analyzing of biomedical titanium alloys and titanium matrix composites. He has been a member of many national and international committees and associations. To-date, he has contributed more than 70 journal, book and conference publications, including 10 plenary, keynote and invited talks, 5 book chapters.

Hongjing Wu is an associate professor of Materials Physics and Chemistry at the School of Science of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Applied Chemistry and Chemistry of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2007 and 2010. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Materials Physics and Chemistry, NPU, in 2014. During 2012 and 2013, he worked as a visiting scholar at Institute of Nanostructured Materials, Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISMN), supported by China Scholarship Council. In 2014, he was appointed as an associate professor at School of Science of NPU. His current research activities center on design, characterization and application of nano-oxide based materials with the focus on environmental catalysis, Li-ion battery energy storage, and electromagnetic wave absorbing properties of nano-oxide based materials. He authored and co-authored 85 scientific papers published on ISI journals in the field of materials science and energy. Publications were cited by Google scholar for more than 2978 times, H-index: 32.

Dr Nan Xu received her PhD degree in Environmental Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (USA). She worked for Rutgers-New Jersey State University (USA) as a Postdoctoral fellow. Currently, she is working at the Suzhou University of Science and Technology (China). Her research interests focus on the design and synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles using a green method for remediation of contaminated soils and underground water; chemical complexation in the interface of solid-water; and co-transport of nanoparticles attached with metal contaminants in the soil, sediment and water environments. Her research has been financially sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (4 grants in total). Dr Xu has published more than 40 peer-reviewed academic papers in journals. Also, she owns 2 Chinese licensed patents.

Dr. Xiuhua Zhao is a Research Professor at the Ministry Education Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University. He did his Ph.D. in Botany from Northeast Forestry University, Harbin city, Heilongjiang in the year 2009. His Research interests are (a) Extraction, separation of and purification of native compounds (b) Nanomedicine (c) Design and evaluation of drug delivery (d) bioavailability or bioaccessibility enhancement of poorly soluble drugs by nanotechnology (e) Biomaterials.

Dr Pooja Chawla is working as a Professor and the head at the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, ISF College of Pharmacy Moga, India. She has nearly 13 years of experience in the research, discovery and development of biologically active pharmaceuticals. Dr Chawla holds a PhD degree in Medicinal Chemistry and has published 3 books and more than 40 papers in national/international journals. She is currently serving as a reviewer for international journals of repute. She also presented a poster at FIP in 2011 and CTDDR in 2013 and delivered an oral talk at the World Chemistry Congress, Dubai 2019. She has guided 47 post-graduate projects, and her research team involves 3 master and 2 doctoral research scholars.

Dr. Hoxha is a researcher and lecturer of pharmacology at the Catholic University ‘Our Lady of Good Counsel’, Tirana, Albania. She graduated in pharmacy (Summa cum Laude), and obtained her PhD in pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan. Her area of research is focused mainly on arachidonic acid metabolites and their role in different in- flammatory diseases. Dr. Hoxha attended a post-doctorate at the University of Granada, Spain, and recently she obtained a research award from the Austrian Academy of Science. In 2019, she was elected as a national delegate of the ERS (European Respiratory Society).

Aristeidis H. Katsanos, MD, Ph.D., is currently a clinical fellow in stroke medicine at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He received his graduate and post-graduate degrees from the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece. His research focuses on the evidence-based evalu- ation of emerging diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to acute stroke treatment and secondary stroke prevention. He has a particular enthusiasm for epidemiology, biostatistics and meta-research. He has actively participated in numerous research projects and international collaborations and has published more than 140 papers in high-impact medical journals, indexed in PubMed, which according to Google Scholar, have received more than 1981 cita- tions (H-index 26), to date.

Dr. Yu Minzhong received a PhD in Visual Neurobiology/Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His broad background is in clinical and experimental electrophysiology of vision, and visual neurobiology, with specific training and expertise in key research areas related to retinal diseases particularly in understanding the pathways of oxidative stress and endoplasmic reticulum stress associated with genetic mutations in retinitis pigmentosa. Over the past 35 years, he has mastered techniques in electrophysiology and molecular biology to understand the mechanism of retinal degeneration. During his PhD study, he was a pioneer in studying multifocal VEP in patients. During postdoctoral training, he worked on the cellular mechanisms of mutant mouse models with electrophysiologic techniques, including AC ERG, VEP and DC ERG (a unique technique for RPE function test). Moreover, he has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Hari Shanker Sharma obtained his PhD in 1982 from Banaras Hindu University and Dr Med Sci in 1999 from Uppsala University and engaged in Neuroscience research over 40 years. He is currently the Director of Research International Experimental CNS Injury & Repair (IECNSIR) based at Uppsala University. He authored more than 250 original research papers and Edited several Books in Progress in Brain Research Series and International Review of Neurobiology series. His current research includes Nano delivery of drugs to treat CNS injury and enhance neurorepair.

Prof. Kun Xiong is the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the School of Basic Medical Science, Central South University. His research interests include the regulatory mechanisms of neuronal death, including apoptosis and necroptosis in brain disorders and glaucoma. Prof. Kun Xiong earned his Bachelor of Medicine (Clinical Medicine) and PhD degrees in human anatomy at Central South University. He has worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Anatomy in the School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, US. Notably, Prof. Kun Xiong’s research has been funded by more than 10 foundations, including 4 National Natural Science Foundations of China. He has authored 60 manuscripts. He has also served as a reviewer for multiple international journals and as an editorial member for several journals (Medicine and Neural Regeneration Research, etc.).

Dr. Hong Zhang received his PhD degree in Formulaology from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2005. He joined the Second Military Medical University as a Lecturer in 2005 and became an Associate Professor in 2009. He worked as a specially invited research fellow for Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospital from 2014 to 2018. He moved to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as an Associate Professor in 2018. Dr Zhang has undertaken more than 25 projects, applied for 15 patents, and published 9 books and more than 140 articles. His research interests are focused on the activity screening, target and compatibility mechanism for Chinese medicines and natural products.

Dr. Banerjee received his PhD degree from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan West Bengal, India. He has nearly eight years of experience in the field of research related to green and sustainable development. He is presently working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Indus International University, Batho Una Himachal Pradesh India. Dr. Banerjee has published more than 50 research articles all in the internationally renowned journals and has authored two book chapters also.

Dr. Javier Eduardo García Castañeda PhD is presently serving as an Associate professor in Pharmacy Department, Sciences Faculty of Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009- ). He was also a visiting professor in the Chemistry Department - CINVESTAV México (2007-2008). He also worked as a researcher in the Immunology Institute (Hospital San Juan de Dios- FIDIC) (1994-2006). His research interest include Identification of cell binding sequences of proteins involved in infection process of HCV, M. tuberculosis, HPV, etc. Peptide Characterization using RMN, MALDI- TOF MS, LC-MS, Circular Dichroism, etc. Production of polyclonal antibodies in animal models (mouse, Goat and rabbit).

Dr. Puyou Jia obtained a Ph.D in 2016 at the Beijing Forestry University, China. Then, he joined the Institute of Chemical Industry of Forestry Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF). He is an associate professor and focus on synthesis of bio-based & biomass-based monomers and polymers. He has spearheaded a few interdisciplinary initiatives that combine expertise in the fields of polymer synthesis and materials chemistry. He is interested in the atom-efficient, eco friendly, highly efficient chemical transformations of a variety of biomass into sustainable intermediates, polymer auxiliaries, bioplastics, elastomers and advanced bio-based materials. He has published more than 100 academic papers.

Dr. Gyorgy Kelevich completed his graduation as a Chemical Engineer and his PhD is in Chemical Sciences. He has been serving as a Professor of Chemistry since 1995 and the Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Budapest University of Technology since 1999. He is engaged with P-heterocyclic and environmentally-friendly chemistry comprising MW chemistry, phase transfer catalysis and the development of new catalysts. He is the author and Co-author of 460 papers and also hold the editorial position in different Scientific Journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Heteroatom Chem. and Phosphorus Sulfur Silicon.

Huizhen Liu, professor at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She received B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry at Qilu University of Technology in 2005, M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry at Changchun University of Technology in 2008, Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, CAS in 2011, and did postdoctoral research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland from 2012 to 2014. She has been a professor at the Institute since 2015. Her research interests include the transformation of CO2 and biomass into valuable chemicals and fuels. She has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Science, Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , and the papers have been cited more than 1200 times. She has also published 3 patents.

Krishnaiah Maddeboina received her B.S. and M.S. degree in chemistry from the Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, AP, India in 2000 and 2002 respectively. He completed his Ph. D. in 2011 at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Organic Chemistry Division-I, Hyderabad. After Ph.D., I have completed post-doctoral training at Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, where I have designed and synthesized a series of trisubstituted imidazoles, thiazoles, and pyrazoles as a potent and selective TGF- β type I receptor kinase inhibitors. The results of these studies were reported in internationally reputed journals. I have also completed several R&D projects containing amino acids, azo-derivatives, and OLED materials. One of our compound EW-7197 (TEW-7197) has been approved from the US FDA for phase II clinical trials with emphasis on subjects with melanoma, breast cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, and prostate cancer (NCT02160106). Currently, focusing on the dual kinase and epigenetic inhibitor for treating cancer at the Pediatrics Computational Chemistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA.

Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo studied Chemistry at the University of Coimbra, where she obtained the PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1995. She was Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool (1992-1993). She received her Habilitation in Organic Chemistry in 2003. She is currently Director of the Department of Chemistry, Associate Professor with Habilitation and Head of the Organic Chemistry Research Group at the University of Coimbra. She is also President of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the Portuguese Chemical Society. She has published more than 115 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals. Her research interests are in the area of synthetic and mechanistic heterocyclic organic chemistry. She is particularly concerned with the development of synthetic routes to new bioactive molecules.

Toshifumi Dohi (TD), a Professor at Ritsumeikan University, received his MS degree in 2002 (Prof. S. Murai) from the Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka University, Japan, and PhD in 2005 (Prof. Y. Kita) from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Osaka University, where he studied new reactivities of transition metal catalysts and synthetic chemistry using hypervalent iodine reagents. After finishing PhD work, he subsequently became Assistant Professor at Osaka University, and was promoted to Associate Professor (PI) in 2014 at Ritsumeikan University. His current research interest is focused on reagent/catalyst design and asymmetric oxidation in hypervalent iodine chemistry. T.D. received the IUPAC-ICOS 15 Poster Award for most excellent presentation, the PSJ Award for Young Scientists (2009), Banyu Chemist Award (2013), Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2014), and GSC Encouragement Award (2015) on his researches. For more details, see: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/pharmacy/dohi/ at this homepage.

Dr. Neeraj Mishra is working as Professor in Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Gwalior since July 2019. He is having around 17 years teaching/industry/ research experience at undergraduate and post graduate level. He was recipient of ICMR- SRF (New Delhi, India) during his Ph.D. tenure under supervision of Prof. S. P. Vyas. He worked as brand ambassador of Bentham Science, USA 2018-19. He has supervised more than 30 M. Pharm students. He is having around 90 publications of International and National repute in recent concept of novel drug delivery system, particularly in vaccine delivery and drug targeting and total number of citations 1696 (h-index 22, i- index 30). He is also written 4 Books and 5 book chapters in national and International publisher (Nova Science Publishers). He is also approved production chemist form LSSSDC under Skill India Scheme for the period of 2019- 2021. He is recipient of “Distinguished Professor Award” 2019 from DST-NSTMIS,SPAICS, Indore, M.P in September 2019. He is having membership of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association (Life Time membership MP/IND/LM/0086) and Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) life membership No. is PU/LM-379. In Addition to this he is also works as Guest editor of thematic issue entitled “Nanoparticulate carriers for the treatment of Infectious Diseases and cancer” of “Current Molecular Pharmacology”, Bentham Science, USA in 2020-21 I.F. 3.32 (Issue ID BMS-CMP-2019-HT-2 ) and also acts as a reviewer of International repute journal (Journal of Microencapsulation (Informa Pharmaceutical Science).

Dr. Luciana Scotti received her Ph.D. in Cosmetology and Molecular Modeling at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She did 3 years of Post-Doctorate in Pharmaceuticals at the Laboratory of Planning and Synthesis of Potentially Active Chemotherapies in Tropical Endemics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USP. She has experience in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Molecular acting mainly in the following areas: natural products, Molecular Modeling, QSAR, and Chemometrics. She is the professor of the Post-Graduate Program of Bioactive Natural and Synthetic Products of the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.

Rostyslav Bubnov is working as a medical doctor in the clinical hospital ‘Pheophania’ of State Affairs Department, researcher in the Interferon Department of Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, NAS of Ukraine, and corresponding member of Ukrainian Academy of Information. He is completing administrative responsibilities as National Representative of the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine (EPMA) in Ukraine. He received his MD in Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University (Ukraine) during the period of 1994-2000, and PhD in Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education during the period of 2009-2012. He studied medical law in International Solomon University (Kyiv) in 2013-2016. He has authored and co- authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, 11 monographs, 19 UA patents (see http://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=k9YfXKwAAAAJ) and performs peer reviews and editorship for a number of journals (see https://publons.com/author/317326/rostyslav-v-bubnov) and served as expert evaluator for number of National and international projects. He is winner of number of award like President of Ukraine Award for young scientists 2012, Sentinels of Science award 2016 in Medicine, Top Reviewer 2019, etc.

Dr Maria Manuela Estevez Pintado is presently serving as an Associate Professor of the College of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University (ESB-UCP), Associate Director of ESB UCP and the director of CBQF (Chemistry and Biotechnology Center – State Associate Laboratory), an ESB UCP research unit and Associate Laboratory. She did her B.Sc. in Pharmacy (Clinical Analysis and Pharmacy options) from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (1991), she frequented the curricular part of the Food Science and Engineering Masters from the Portuguese Catholic University (1993) and finished her PhD in Biotechnology (in the field of Food Science and Engineering) from the Portuguese Catholic University in 1999. She has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Jianqiang Xu is currently active as an associate professor of biochemistry in School of Life Science and Medicine and as Vice Director of Panjin Industrial Technology Institute at Dalian University of Technology (DUT). He completed his B.S. degree in 2002 and Ph.D. degree in 2008 with Professor Qing Yang at DUT. From 2009 to 2014, he received PostDoc training with Professor Elias Arnér (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden). In 2015, he started his independent research career at Panjin Campus of DUT. His research mainly focuses on selenium biology and its biological and medical applications to solve health and disease issues.

The experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of researching in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. Skilled in clinical research, Animal models, Cellular models, Scientific writing & publishing. He has focused on extensive fields of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Natural products, Radiopharmaceuticals, Nanomedicine, Radiation biology, Cancer chemoradiotherapy and other fields of Pharmacy at the Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. He has published many originals and reviews in high-quality journals and selected as a recognized international editor and peer reviewer by famous publishers. In 2019, he certificates for placing in the top 1% of reviewers in Cross-Field on Publons global reviewer database.

Dr. Gjumrakch Aliev received his MD in 1982, from the Baku Medical University (former USSR) with cum laude. Then he accomplished his PhD in Cardiovascular Diseases from the prestigious Russian Academy of the Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia in 1989 with cum laude. He received postdoctoral training with Professor G. Burnstock in the University College of the London. He authored and coauthored more than 500 publications in the fields of neurodegenerative diseases research (Alzheimer disease), as well as cardio- and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, and electron microscopy. Dr. Aliev’s accomplishments in the area of biochemistry and cellular biology have tremendous implications for drug design towards CNS Neurological Disorders, AD, cancer, and cerebrovascular and neurodegeneration related pathologies. He is world-renowned expert in electron microscopy. He is currently the Editor in Chiefs for “Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal Chemistry”, “Applied Cell Biology”, “World Journal of Neuroscience”, “Open Journal of Psychiatry”, “Journal of Aging Science”, “Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry”, “Immunology, Endocrine and Metabolic Agent in Medicinal Chemistry” as well as which by itself shows the voluminous and outstanding work he has accomplished in the area of cellular and molecular biology as well as aged associated clinical sciences.

Prof. Sanjula Baboota is presently working at the Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER), Jamia Hamdard. She has a total experience of about 23 years in teaching and research. She has a list of over 200 publications in high impact factor refereed journals. She has guided several students both at the at the postgraduate and doctorate level. She has more than 7300 citations and has an h-index of 43 and i10 index of 120 (Source: Google Scholar).

Prof. Dr. Marcio F. Chedid obtained his MD degree by the Medical School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2004. Prof. Chedid concluded a five-year General Surgery and Surgical Oncology Residency at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA-UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2010. He worked as a Clinical Fellow at the Division of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA, from 2011 to December 2013. Since May 2014, Prof. CHEDID is an Attending Liver and Pancreas Transplant Surgeon at HCPA-UFRGS. Prof. Chedid obtained a PhD degree in Surgical Sciences at UFRGS in February 2017 and has worked as Postgraduate Professor of Surgery and Master´s Degree Thesis Advisor at the Medical School of UFRGS since September 2017. He has authored/co-authored 47 scientific medical articles, including the one first reporting successful performance of human pancreas transplantation utilizing IGL-1 preservation solution (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27163542). Prof. Chedid is one of the associate editors of the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and also is a member of the editorial board of Annals of Translational Medicine and Lipids in Health and Disease. Prof. Chedid is a reviewer for 31 PubMed Indexed scientific journals. 

Dr. Jiwei Hu is currently a Chair Professor at Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Information Systems of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment as well as at Cultivation Base of Guizhou National Key Laboratory of Mountainous Karst Eco-environment, Guizhou Normal University. He obtained B.S. in chemical engineering from Zhejiang Institute of Technology in 1984, M.S. in organic chemistry from University of Jyväskylä in 1994, Licentiate in environmental chemistry from Stockholm University in 1996, and Ph.D. in applied chemistry from University of Jyväskylä in 1999. He carried out his research at College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2002 to 2005. He received in 2018 the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) medal in Sweden and the Science Technology Cooperation Award of Guizhou Province. He has so far authored and co-authored approximately 180 conference and journal papers and his work has led to 7 patents.

Prof. Dr. Sher Bahadar Khan did his Ph.D from HEJ, Karachi University, Pakistan. After completion of Ph.D, He started his post-doctoral career in Nanochemistry and Nanotechnology and continued to work as a post-doctoral research fellow till February 2010 at Yonsei University, South Korea. In March 2010, He joined Center for Advanced Materials and Nano-engineering, Department of Chemistry, Najran University as an Assistant Professor and continued his work till 31 st August 2011. He joined the Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as an Assistant Professor in September 2011. Currently he is full Professor in the Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University and is doing research in Nanochemistry and Nanotechnology which comprises catalysis, hydrogen production, drug delivery, solar cell, development of active photo-catalyst and fabrication of perceptive bio-sensor and chemi-sensor using metal oxide nanomaterials and their green environmental nanohybrids. He is the author of 300 research articles, twelve books, and six patents with more than 850 impact factor, 5650 citations and 41 h-index.

Dr Bikash Medhi is a Professor & Additional Medical Superintendent (AMS) in PGIMER, Department of Pharmacology. His area of expertise is Experimental Pharmacology, Clinical Research, Regulatory Pharmacology, and Development of nano-formulations, Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomics and Stem cells etc. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience and has owned more than 60 prestigious national and international awards He is in core panel of expert for Task Force in IND application & Regulatory Affair, lead GLP Inspector, lead GCP inspector, Principle Assessor for NABH, He is in several committees in DCGI office, ICMR, DBT, DST, CSIR, NBE, MCI etc. He has authored five books and 80 chapters and published more than 350 articles in national and international journals.

Dr. Feng Xu (MD, PhD) obtained his PhD from Zhejiang University. Following postdoctoral work at Shantou University, he became an associate Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College in China. He devotes himself in the research of pathogenesis of chronic airway diseases and lung cancer for many years, and has been invited to academic discussion and experience sharing at academic conferences for many times. He has published more than twenty papers recruited by SCI database.

Weiwei Xue received his B.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) degree in Department of Chemistry at Lanzhou University. He worked as a visiting scholar of the Department of Biochemistry at University of Washington School of Medicine (2018-2019). He is now an associate professor of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Chongqing University. His research interests focus on employing principles of physics and chemistry with modern computational techniques to understand the molecular mechanism underlying chemical and biological processes (protein−ligand/protein interactions and protein folding), and to design novel therapeutic candidates. Dr. Xue has published more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers with over 1000 citations and h-index of 23.

Ali Yadollahpour received his MSc and PhD in Medical Physics from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran in 2013. He has served as the head of Bioelectromagnetic Clinic in Imam Hospital, Ahvaz, Iran. He is the faculty member of Medical Physics department, School of Medicine in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. His main research interests are experimental and quantitative neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, brain stimulation, neuromodulation, using physical modalities and nanoscale agents in medical theranostics. He is currently working on neuromodulation/neurofeedback for treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Dr Donghong Zhang is currently serving as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine of Georgia State University, USA. He completed his M.S. from Shantou University Medical College, China. He further obtained a PhD from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China in 2012. His research interests include Role of epigenetics, genetics and metabolomics in heart development, heart regeneration, atherosclerosis and lung cancer in vivo and in vitro. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Wenzheng Bao received his Ph.D in computer science from Tongji University in 2018. He received the master degree in computer science from the University of Jinan in 2015. He currently works for school of information and electrical engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China. His research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning, computational biology and proteomics.

Dr Martiniano Bello Ramírez obtained BSc. Biological Pharmaceutical Chemistry, from the University of Veracruz (2003), MSc. Biochemical Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (2006), and Ph. D. Biochemical Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (2010). Currently, he is a Research Professor at the Superior School of Medicine of National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. He has published more than 50 articles in well-reputed journals. Besides, he is a reviewer of many journals such as European Journal of Medical Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Journal of Molecular Modeling, PlosOne, Plos Computational Biology, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, Molecular BioSystems, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Open Chemistry, Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry and many more.

Dr. Feng Guang Gao is presently serving as an Associate Professor, Department of Basic Medicine, Medical College, Xiamen University, China. He completed his Masters of Science from Medical School, Shandong University, Jinan in 1996. He further obtained a Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 2008. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Mauro Salvi received his B.S. degree in Biology (1998) and Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics (2002) from the University of Padova, Italy. Mauro Salvi joined the faculty at the University of Padova in 1996 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. His current research projects are all addressed to work out phosphorylation-based regulatory mechanisms in different signal transduction pathways studying the kinase (function, regulation, partners etc.) and the target protein substrate/s (physiological role of phosphorylation) with a combination of in silico, in vitro and in cell experimental approaches.

Dr. Anket Sharma is currently working as post-doctoral scientist at State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, China. Before joining as post- doctoral scientist, he worked as assistant professor at DAV University, Jalandhar, India. He completed his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. He was also a DST-INSPIRE Fellow from Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He has authored 67 articles in journals and 14 chapters in books of international repute.

Professor Hubing Shi received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Tsinghua University in 2007 and continued postdoctoral research at the University of California at Los Angeles from 2008-2015. He joined the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy as professor in China in 2015. His research interests focus on discovery of the acquired resistance mechanisms in targeted therapy and development of novel combinatorial regimens with state-of-the-art treatment in clinics.

Zhaoliang Su received his PhD in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics from the Jiangsu University. Currently, he is appointed as a Professor at Jiangsu University, China and an Executive Director of International Genome Center, Jiangsu University. He focuses on the potential mechanisms of inflammatory disorders, especially, cardiac inflammatory injury, inflammatory resolution and cardiac functional remodelling as well as cancer immune escape. Besides, he has published several articles in reputed journals.

Dr. Timothy Veenstra received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Windsor in Canada followed by completion of a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. It was at the Mayo Clinic that he recognized the value of applying mass spectrometry (MS) to biomedical research. He has spent most of his career in research, utilizing MS in the fields of oncology and neurology to identify biomarkers for disease detection as well as identifying protein interactions key to disease progression. He has co-authored almost 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is the author of the book “Proteomic Applications in Cancer Detection and Discovery”.

Dr. Wei Wang is a Professor at the Henan Agricultural University (HAU) and a Principal Investigator of the State Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, China. He received a PhD from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He did his Postdoctoral studies at CSIC (Spain, 1999-2001) and University of Siena (2002-2006), where he began his work on crop genomic and proteomic works. In 2006, he moved to HAU, where he was promoted to Full Professor and then distinguished Professor in Henan province. His research focuses on maize omics and improvement. Besides, he is a member of the editorial board at Frontiers in Plant Science (Associate Editor), PLOS ONE (Academic Editor), and Acta Physiologiae Plantarum (Associate Editor).

Dr. En-Qiang Chen has graduated from Sichuan University( Chengdu, China) and served as Associate professor in Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University. He has published more than 50 full peer reviewed publications, 8 book chapters, 15 presentations at international meetings, 2 peer reviewed funded grants and 1 authorized patent. In recent years, he has focused on the basic and clinical research of stem cells in the treatment of liver diseases.

Isotta Chimenti is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, and Junior Fellow of the Superior School for Advanced Studies at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. She is eligible as Associate Professor, according to the Italian National Scientific Qualification program. Her education includes a Master of Science in Medical Biotechnology, and a PhD in Experimental Medicine. She has been a postdoc fellow at Johns Hopkins University, at Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, and at Pasteur Institute – Italy. Her research activity is focused on regenerative medicine, in particular on cardiac cell therapy and cardiac tissue engineering, adult stem cells, and oxidative stress in the cardiovascular system. She is funded as PI by several Italian National grants, and participant in a European Horizon 2020 project. She co-authored over 55 Scopus indexed publications.

Dr. Feng is a Professor, deputy Director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Diabetes Prevention and Research, and chief of R&D department at Luhe hospital, Capital Medical University. After three years of neurologist at medical residency, she obtained a PhD degree in Molecular and Vascular Biology. Dr. Feng’s research interest focuses on studying, understanding, and utilizing stem cells for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and vascular complications in ischemic heart disease and diabetes.

Yonggang Lv received the Ph.D. degree in Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering with specialty in bioengineering from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, in 2005. He served as a postdoctoral research associate/research fellow at the City College of the City University of New York and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He joined the Bioengineering College at Chongqing University as Full Professor in March 2009 and won the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education of China in 2010. He became a senior visiting scholar in Prof. Shu Chien’s laboratory at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from July to October 2014. He has published over 100 peer referred journal papers, edited 3 books, and holds 9 China patents. His research interests include mechanobiology and regenerative medicine, stem cell biology, and cancer biology. Dr. Lv is the Vice Chairman of hemorheology committee in Chinese Society of Microcirculation. He is an associate editor of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing and an editorial member of Biotechnology Letters.

Dr. Neha Dhanajirao Desai is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, R.B.N.B. College Shrirampur. She received her PhD from the Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. She has published more than 20 articles in well-reputed journals. Besides, she is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Nanoarchitectonics (NAT) – Universal Wiser Publisher, Singapore, International Journal of Material Science and Applications- Science Publishing Group, and Universal Journal of Chemistry, Horizon Research Publishing USA. Also, she is currently working on the project ‘Bipolar Resistive Switching Characteristics of TiO 2 Thin Films.

Dr S.K. Dhawan is working as Emeritus Scientist in the Director Advisory Group of National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi. He has worked in the area of Conducting polymers nano ferromagnetic composites for EMI shielding and self-healing smart conducting polymer coatings for corrosion protection. He has published 180 papers, 8 US patents, and 8 Indian Patents. He has also contributed 11 chapters in books and has published one book on “Low Bandgap Random Copolymers for Photovoltaic Applications.” He has received the Outstanding Scientist Award in 2009 and DST-Lockheed Innovation Award in 2014 for his contribution to Self-healing coatings and ASDF Global Award in 2015. His field of expertise includes Conducting Polymers, EMI shielding, Smart Coatings, and Waste Plastic Management.

Dr. Ajay Singh Verma obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 2006) in Physics from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, India. Dr. Verma is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Banasthali Vidyapith (Banasthali University), Vanasthali, India. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of Solid State Physics, Thermal Conductivity, Condensed Matter Physics, Material Characterization, Nanomaterials, and Thermal Properties. Dr. Verma, as an author/co-author, has published more than 90 articles in various journals, having over 795 total citations.

Jun Xiong received his PhD in materials processing engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2014. He is currently an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the Southwest Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include metal additive manufacturing, robotic welding, welding sensing and control. He has published more than 40 international journal papers. He was selected as a youth talent of Sichuan Association for science and technology

Dr. Jason Xu is presently serving as a Professor and Chief Engineer at the Test Center of Civil Engineering of Tianjin University, China. He completed his MS. from Tianjin University, China in 2008. He further obtained a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy in 2012. His research interests include fractural mechanics and structural health monitoring. He has also been recognized with awards and honors such as the First Prize for Tianjin Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2014 and “131” Innovative Talents Training Programmes Foundation by Tianjin Municipal Government, 2015.

Prof Richard (Chunhui) Yang is Lead Director Academic Programs (DAP), Engineering and Industrial Design and the Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Smart Structures in the Western Sydney University (WSU), Australia. Richard received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002. His fields of research include multi-scale modelling of advanced engineering materials and structures, structural health monitoring (SHM) and smart structures, advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0, metal forming, and metal surface treatment, etc. He has been awarded 1 ARC DP grant in composites, 2 ARC Linkage grants in roll forming of metal sheets, and 5 ARC LIEF grants as well as 4 competitive overseas research grants, including 1 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Grant (BNSF) on roll forming and 3 National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants (NFSC) on advanced engineering materials from China. In scientific publication, he has published more than 180 journal/conference papers and confidential reports for industrial partners in his main fields of research - Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Civil Engineering, etc.

Dr. Peilei Zhang is an Associate Professor of Materials Processing and the Director of equipment/project at the Department of Materials Engineering Science, Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), Shanghai, China. He graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University and got his doctor's degree in 2010. Since that time, he has been working for SUES. He worked at Central South University as a senior visiting scholar focusing on selective laser melting from 2014 to 2015. His current research focuses on (1) Additive Manufacturing for Metal: Selective laser melting (SLM), Electron Beam Melting (EBM); (2) Laser Materials Processing: Laser precision microfabrication, Laser cladding, and welding; (3) Thermomechanical Processing: New material welding and physical metallurgy. In the scientific publication, he has published more than 100 journal/conference papers and confidential reports for industrial partners in his main fields of research - Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, etc. He has been awarded the first prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award in 2015.

Dr. Gjumrakch Aliev, MD, PhD, President “GALLY” International Research Institute Inc., San Antonio, Texas, USA. He also hold appointment with the as a Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacy- FSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia and Leading Scientist , Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Region, Chernogolovka, Russian Federation. He received his MD in 1982, from the Baku Medical University (former USSR) with cum laude. Then he accomplished his PhD in Cardiovascular Diseases from the prestigious Russian Academy of the Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia in 1989 with cum laude. He received postdoctoral training with Professor G. Burnstock in the University College of the London. He authored and coauthored more than 500 publications in the fields of neurodegenerative diseases research (Alzheimer disease), as well as cardio- and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, and electron microscopy. He is an outstanding teacher, scholar, and a renowned scientist in the area of cellular

Dr. Lian-Shun Feng obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2011, and then worked as postdoctorial researcher in Peking University. Currently, Dr. Lian-Shun Feng work in WuXi AppTec as principal investigator. In 2017 and 2018, around 20 peer-reviewed SCI papers were published, and many of them were cited over 100 times in two years.

​Dr. Bingjin Li is a graduate of Yanbian University in China, and obtained her PhD from Ehime University in Japan. She performed postdoc training at Washington State University and is full professor at second hospital of Jilin University in China. Her lab uses behavioral and electrophysiological analyses to explore the underlying relationship between neuronal function and behavior. This integrative approach involves the use of molecular biology, biochemistry, immunocytohistochemistry, neurophysiology, anatomy, and a wide range of behavioral methodology to understand the function of the nervous system. My personal research is Depression.

Dr. Luo received his Ph.D. degree and postdoctoral training at Central South University. Then, he worked as a research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2017, he joined the first affiliated hospital of Xiamen university. His research interests focus on the field of clinical pharmacology including clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and clinical phase I of new drugs. He has over 10 years’ experience in the development of biomarkers in personalized medicine in a variety of disorders, such as cancer, transplantation, etc. Currently, he is responsible for more than 50 clinical phase I studies.

​Assoc. Prof. Dr Hande Sipahi has graduated from Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy in 2002. She has completed her Master’s and PhD degree at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology in 2006 and 2011, respectively. She started to work as a Full-time Assistant Professor at Yeditepe University in 2012 and got her Associate Professor degree in September 2015. She has participated in many scientific congresses and symposiums. She has over 35 articles published in international journals. Her main research areas are inflammation and oxidative stress markers, heavy metal toxicity, risk assessment, safety and biocompatibility tests for drugs and medical devices and in vitro alternative toxicity tests. She is a member of the Turkish Society of Toxicology and EUROTOX. She is also a European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) since 2017.

Dr Drozdstoy Stoyanov holds currently the academic position of Full Professor and Head, Neuropsychiatry and Brain Imaging Group, Medical University, Plovdiv. He is Vice Chair of Philosophy SIG, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, Visiting Fellow in the University of Pittsburgh, USA (2009), International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (2018), Guest Lecturer in the Universities of Copenhagen (2015), Vienna (2017) and Bergen (2018).He published more than 160 scholarly papers, including five monographs and three textbooks. Dr Stoyanov is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychiatry and the European Journal of Person Centered Health Care; Editorial Board member of Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neurosciences, International Journal for Person Centered Medicine, Folia Medica and others. Ad hoc reviewer in Current Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Neurobiology, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Affective Disorders, Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipement.

My research interests involves application of Mass Spectrometry based proteomics in Health and Disease especially biomarker discovery and Drug Development. My group uses mass spectrometry based high throughput quantitative proteomics, natural product chemistry, cell biology, animal model, stem cell, and modern biology approach to find the target, to develop novel drugs and elucidate its mode of action against cancer and other metabolic disorders such as diabetes. Cancer is a hyperplastic condition that leads to uncontrolled proliferation, invasion, metastasis, dysregulation of apoptosis and cell cycle. Cancer is the second leading cause of worldwide human mortality after cardiovascular diseases. We are investigating the efficacy of various natural and synthetic metabolites on melanoma, retinoblastoma, leukaemia, and lung cancer using in vitro and in vivo method including animal model. Further, investigating the molecular basis for Cell adhesion, AKT signalling and tyrosine kinase associated cancer progression and response and resistance to targeted therapy in these cancers is in progress in my lab.

Dr. Y. Yu started her career as an Associate Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, then continued it at Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University since 2016. Her current research focuses on studying the molecular mechanism of cardiovascular disease or the genetic pathogenesis of congenital heart disease. She has published 59 articles in Chinese core journals and SCI Journals, such as J Clin Invest., Nat. Commun., Circ Res., EbioMedicine, J Bio Chem. and so on. Also, she had applied for 2 patents.

Dr. Guo-Ping Zhou is currently a Distinguished Professor of Gordon Life Science Institute, USA. He is also an Adjunct Professor of several academics in the United States and China. Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California at Davis, and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University and Harvard University, respectively. Dr. Zhou has successfully introduced the elegant wenxiang diagrams to elucidate the mechanisms of the coiled-coil proteins, protein- lipids, protein-DNA interactions, and prion protein misfolding observed by NMR. Meanwhile, he has also published many papers in Bioinformatics. His current research interests focus on the investigation into the intrinsic relationship between the functions and structures of polysialyltransferases, the suggested targets in metastatic cancer. In addition, As an Editorial Board Member or the invited Guest Editor, Dr. Zhou has also edited some special issues on structural biology for several influential scientific journals such as Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Amino Acids, and as well as Protein & Peptide Letters.

Dr. Liakoppolus was born in Athens, Greece in 1968. He received his MD degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and PhD degree from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is currently an Associate Professor of Nephrology at the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, 1 st Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, he serves as a member (representing ISN) of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee. Additionally, he is actively involved in many Committees of the Medical School of our University (PhD Committee, MSc Committee, Bioethics Committee, Educational Committee etc) and in the Administration Committee (RESTART) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is also the Vice-Chairman of the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Peloponnese, Greece.

Valérie Metzinger-Le Meuth obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Rennes 1, France and was a postdoctoral fellow from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine of Oxford (UK). She is an Associate Professor in University Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN), teaching in BSc and in Master degree with a focus on Therapy and Cardiology. She is working in UMRS INSERM 1148 LVTS in collaboration with HEMATIM Laboratory (Amiens) on non-coding RNAs implicated in the physiopathology of chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disorders-associated including vascular/valvular calcification and anemia.

Dr. Mohammad Amjad Kamal is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the King Fahd Medical Research Center (KFMRC), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he was full Professor from March 2011 to March 2013, and led a highly productive and collaborative research team. Dr. Kamal's biochemical research has culminated in more than 250 publications in internationally respected journals, and 64 abstracts at international conferences. His research involves ongoing collaborations with numerous international scientific teams and, as an example among many successful projects, was pivotal in supporting the development of novel experimental drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease from conception in the laboratory to the clinic with his longtime collaborator Dr. Nigel H. Greig (Chief, Drug Design & Development Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, NIA, NIH, USA).

Dr Kalin Dragnevski obtained his MSc from the University of Chemical Technology & Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria & his PhD from the Institute of Materials at Leeds University. Following a short spell in industry, he took a research position in the Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge. He is now in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Laboratory for In-situ Microscopy & Analysis (LIMA). His research is aimed at developing methodologies for better understanding the structure-property-composition relationship in advanced materials systems on a micro- & nano-scale using novel in-situ micromechanical testing techniques. His work recently received the prestigious DR Harting Award for best paper of the year, given by the Society of Experimental Mechanics.

Dr. Yong Ren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He had worked as a Research Assistant at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Hong Kong. He has a broad range of research interests including microscale fluid dynamics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, multiphase flow, microfabrication, biomaterial synthesis, and biomedical applications using droplet microfluidics.

Dr Giuseppe Grande is MD, Endocrinologist and Ph.D. in “Sciences of nutrition, metabolism, aging and gender disease”. He has attended the 2nd level master in “Andrology and Reproductive Medicine” and the post-graduate courses in "Reproductive andrology", "Andrology and Reproductive Medicine" and in "New technologies in molecular medicine”. Dr. Grande works at the Fondazione Policlinico “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, Rome at the International Scientific Institute (ISI) for the study of human fertility and infertility. He is author of 27 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research activity is focused in studying the translational applications of clinical proteomics in endocrinology and in reproduction.

Dr. Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, India. He received his PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1999. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in well-reputed international journals. Besides, he has published 6 chapters, 4 books and has presented his work in 44 international conferences and 16 national conferences. His research expertise includes: a) Bioprocess development for production of industrial metabolites: enzymes, biopolymers, ethanol, glycerol and polyols; Statistical design of experiments and bioprocess optimization, b) Recombinant protein production: Cloning and overexpression of human phospholipid scramblases (I-IV), c) Protein purification: Purification of recombinant proteins and industrial enzymes, d) Biodegradation: Microbial and enzymatic degradation of caffeine in food products and effluents, and e) Membrane biochemistry: Understanding the molecular mechanism of membrane biogenesis in eukaryotes (biogenic membrane flippases and scramblases).

Dr. Jaroslava Halper is a Professor of Pathology with appointments in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Medical Partnership, both at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA. Dr. Halper obtained her MD degree from the University of Toronto and PhD in experimental pathology from University of Minnesota. She did residency in anatomic pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Most of her research is focused on growth factors, tissue repair and tendon disorders. She was the first one to describe granulin/progranulin growth factor (as transforming growth factor e). More recently, her research turned to so called equine degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, a progressive chronic disorder leading to lameness and pain in horses. Her seminal work showed that inappropriate accumulation of proteoglycans in connective tissues as the hallmark of this disorder. Currently, her lab is working on further elucidation of this debilitating entity.

Dr. Kangussu obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2014) and then undertook postdoctoral fellowships at the department of Physiology and Biophysics (2017) and Morphology (2019). Currently, he is a full Professor at the department of Morphology of Federal University of Minas Gerais. He has experience in Physiology, Pharmacology and Morphology. More specifically, his research focuses on the following subjects: vasoactive peptides, renin- angiotensin peptides, hypertension, cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease.

Dr. Muhammad Sarwar Khan has a vibrant career in agriculture, education, and biotechnology and has earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. The Rockefeller Foundation awarded him a prestigious fellowship under the Rice Biotechnology Program for Developing Countries to research at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His research of first-of-its-kind was published in Nature Biotechnology. Dr Khan served as the founding group leader of Chloroplast Transformation and Biopharming, and head of Biotech Interdisciplinary Division at NIBGE, and is currently serving as the director of the Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Dr Khan has supervised more than 100 PhD candidates, MPhil students, and researchers. He has published more than 100 articles in high impact journals, including Nature, and is the author of several book chapters and books.

Dr. Qinlu Lin obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 2002) in Food Science from Hunan Agricultural University and then undertook postdoctoral fellowships at South China University of Technology (2003-2005). He also studied at Lund University in Sweden as a visiting scholar (1999-2000). Currently, he is a full Professor and Dean of the School of Food Science and Engineering of Center South University of Forestry and Technology. He is also the Director of National Engineering Laboratory for Rice and By-product Process. He is experienced in Food Science, Protein Chemistry and Molecular Nutrition. Notably, Dr. Lin has authored more than 300 articles, having over 1000 total citations. In addition, he holds more than 30 patents and has published five academic monographs.

Dr. Kai Tao is an Associate Professor at Biomimetic Integrating & Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. He completed his PhD in Bionanotechnology from China University of Petroleum, China. Dr. Tao’s research interests include design, synthesis of amyloid-like short peptides, and investigation of their self-assembly, investigation of the mechanism underlying peptide biomimetic synthesis and stabilization of Pt nanocrystals, investigation of peptide non-template-based assembly of Pt nanocrystals and their selective wetting behaviours at interfaces, investigation of peptides template-based 1-D assembly of Pt nanocrystals and their electrocatalysis properties. He has published 33 peer-reviewed papers in various journal out of which he was the first author or co-first author of 18 papers.

Currently serves as the deputy head, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, editor-in-Chief, “Interdisciplinary Sciences- Computational Life Sciences”. Prof. Wei’s research is in the general field of bioinformatics with more than 250 journal papers, 9 monographs with 5000 SCI citations and an H factor of 45, made some ground breaking research works in theoretical and molecular simulations of liquids and biological systems.

Dr. Runzhi Zhu obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 2010) in Cancer Biology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is currently employed as a Professor, in the Center for Cell Therapy, at The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. The research of Dr. Zhu is currently focused on Autophagy and Apoptosis in liver injury and cancer therapy, and the roles of PTEN and SPOP in prostate cancer survival and metastasis. Dr. Zhu, as an author/co- author, has published more than 45 articles in various journals, having over 815 total citations.

Dr. A. K. Tiwary is working as Professor (Pharmaceutics) in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Drug Research at Punjabi University, Patiala, India. He completed his PhD in Pharmaceutics at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. He has to his credit 113 research papers/articles and one US Patent. His h- index is 30 and i-10 index is 66. He has guided 12 PhD scholars and more than 45 M. Pharm. students. His research pursuits include transdermal drug delivery, modified oral drug delivery using natural polymers and their derivatives, spermicidals, microemulsions and SMEDDS. He actively contributes his expertise to industries, academia and is on the board of many reputed journals as reviewer and editorial board advisor.

Dr. Boris I. Kharisov (born in 1964, in Russia, has lived in Mexico from 1994, and naturalized in Mexico in 2003) is currently a Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL). He took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, working in the contaminated zone in 1987. Degrees: An MS in 1986, in radiochemistry and a PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1993, from the Moscow State University, Russia; Dr. Hab. in physical chemistry in 2006 from Rostov State University, Russia. Memberships: Mexican Academy of Science, National Researchers System (SNI, Level II), Materials Research Society. He is the co-author of nine books, 155 articles, 10 book chapters, and holds four patents. Co-editor: Three invited special issues of international journals. He is the member of the Editorial board of three journals. Specialties: Materials chemistry, coordination and inorganic chemistry, phthalocyanines, ultrasound, nanotechnology, chemical treatment of petroleum, environmental remediation. Dr. Kharisov has three children. His biography was published in: “Who is Who in the World”, “Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century”, and so on.

Changhe Li, Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Famous Teaching Teachers in Shandong Province, Excellent Graduate Guiding Teachers in Shandong Province, Shandong Excellent Inventor, Special Expert of Taishan Scholars. He undertakes three projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, one sub-project of the National 973 Plan, one sub-project of the National Machinery, two key projects of the Shandong Natural Science Foundation and two projects of the Qingdao Science and Technology Development Plan. 153 SCI/EI papers were published by the first author or correspondent, of which more than 50 are Minimum Quantity Lubrication Grinding (MQL) related papers, and 3 are the Highly Cited Papers. Besides, 3 books were published, and 6 invention patents were granted to the United States, South Korea and Australia, and 90 invention patents were granted to China. He has won more than 10 provincial and ministerial awards, such as The Ministry of Education's Second Prize for Technical Invention in Colleges and Universities, Shandong Provincial Second Prize for Technological Invention, The First Prize of Shandong Patent Award, The First Prize of Teaching Achievement in Shandong Province's Colleges and Universities.

Dragana Tomašević Pilipović received his Ph.D. in Environmental Protection Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research field revolves around water, soil and sediment analysis, treatment of wastewater and water processes, treatment of sediment and different waste contaminated with toxic metals and effectiveness assessment of applied treatments, and environmental risk assessment. She has published some articles and chapters in well-reputed journals.

Wenxiu Que received his Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China. Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China. Dr. Que has published more than 270 SCI international journal papers, more than 80 international conference papers, 2 books, 8 book chapters, and granted 28 patents. His research interests cover transparent laser ceramics, organic-inorganic hybrid materials for photonic applications, semiconductor compound, and organic thin-film solar cells, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells, solar-thermal seawater desalination, and sewage purification, photocatalytic water splitting and organics degradation, electrocatalytic water splitting, as well as 2D MXenes for supercapacitors.

Dr Chatchawal Wongchoosuk received a PhD in Physics from the Mahidol University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University. His research interests and experiences include a) Quantum calculations and molecular dynamic simulation for the nanoscale systems, i.e. Density functional theory (DFT), Semiempirical methods, Density Functional based Tight Binding (DFTB), MD simulation, DFTB/MD, MM, etc. b) Synthesis of nanomaterials, i.e. ZnO nanostructures, Carbon nanotube, SiC nanotube, Graphene, 3D nanostructures etc. c) Fabrication of molecular devices, i.e. Hybrid gas sensors, FET, Printed electronics, Electroluminescence display, Chemiluminescence. d) Electronic Nose, i.e. Desktop E-Nose, Portable E-nose and Networked E-nose. And e) Intelligent Systems, i.e. Smart Farm, Smart Cars, and Smart Home. He has received over 25 research awards. He has served as a reviewer for several scientific journals. He has published several dozens of articles in reputed journals and proceedings as well as book chapters with patents & copyrights.

Gaetano Gallo is a Researcher at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University “Magna Græcia”, Catanzaro (Italy). In 2018 he completed a clinical training fellowship in IBD and colorectal tumors at the University of Amsterdam – Academic Medical Center. In 2016 and 2018 he has been awarded a fellowship by the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO) and by the Japanese Society of Coloproctology (JSCP). His clinical and research interests include haemorrhoidal disease, rectovaginal and perianal fistula fistulas, minimally invasive treatment of pilonidal sinus (EPSiT), rectal prolapse, colorectal tumors and IBD as well as functional pelvic floor diseases. He has also a special interest in translational research (microRNA and microbiome).Since 2017, he is member of the Cohort Studies Committee of European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and Y-SICCR (Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery) Chair. Gaetano Gallo has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Colorectal and General Surgery. Moreover, he is also reviewer for the most important european journals in the field of Colorectal Surgery and Proctology.

Raffaele Serra is Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University “Magna Græcia”, Catanzaro (Italy). In 1999 he graduated in Medicine and Surgery, in 2004 he became Specialist in “Vascular Surgery”, in 2009 he completed his Ph.D. fellowship and he became Ph.D. in “Clinical and Experimental Biotechnology in Veins and Lymphatics Disease”. From 2017 he is Director of Interuniversity Center of Phlebolympholohy (CIFL) International Research and Educational Program in Clinical and Experimental Biotechnology at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. His clinical and research interests include, vascular surgery, general surgery, cardiovascular disease, wound healing and wound care, chronic venous disease, peripheral artery disease, aortic disease, vasculitis, biotechnology. Raffaele Serra has published more than 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Vascular Surgery and General Surgery. Moreover, he is also Editor of several international high impact journals.

Dr. Huaqiang Chu is currently a full professor at Tongji University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Tongji University in 2010. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers and co-edited 3 books. His current research interests include principles and methods for the resource recovery and energy regeneration from wastewater, and wastewater membrane treatment and reuse technology.

Dr. Ravi Kumar received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Kurukshetra University. He began his career as a Lecturer in Chemistry in 2004 from the same university and then moved to Dyal Singh College, Karnal in 2008. He worked at the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Wales (UK) in Prof Thomas Wirth group in the area of asymmetric synthesis using chiral hypervalent iodine reagents. He was presented with many awards and fellowships including, DST-SERC Young Scientist Research Grants under fast track scheme in 2012 and 2007, Indian National Science Academy (INSA)-Visiting Scientist fellowship in 2012, Dr. Lata Memorial Young Scientist Award in 2009, Goyal Prize (2000) and Kurukshetra University Medal (2000). His major research interests involve the development of novel transformations including asymmetric synthesis using hypervalent iodine reagents/catalysts. His research interests also include the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds of potential medicinal interest. He has co-authored 28 research publications and presented his research results in various national conferences/seminars.

Dr. Pradip Munshi is currently the head of the Organic Chemistry Division at Reliance Industries Limited, India. He obtained Masters from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Asymmetric catalysis from IIT Bombay, India. His postdoctoral research includes the utilization of CO2 from UC Davis and the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His current research areas pertain to the valorization of industrial stream, chlorination, photochemistry, sulfur chemistry, and reactions ‘of’ and ‘in’ CO2.

Dr. Simoes Dos Reis is a materials scientist who holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (2017) and masters and a bachelor's in Environmental engineering. Dr. Simoes Dos Reis has an interest in preparation, and characterization of biomaterials for wastewater treatment, wastes management and reuse, CO2 through carbonation process, etc. In his short scientific career he has published 30 articles and serves as reviewer of 25 international journals.

Chengxia Tan obtained PhD in Pesticide Science from the College of Agriculture & Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Currently, he is a Professor at the College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. His research interests include Design, Synthesis and Biological Activities of Pesticide Biheterocycle Lead Compounds and Research on Pesticide Formulations and Manufacture Mechanism. He has published several articles in well-reputed journals.