Prominent Participants


Plenary Speakers

Ferid Murad (President)
(Nobel Laureate)

Director Emeritus of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases

Ada E. Yonath
(Nobel Laureate)

Department of Structural Biology Weizmann Institute, Rehovot

Phillip A. Sharp
(Nobel Laureate)

Institute Professor Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Room 76-461A Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139

Richard L. Atkinson

Clinical Professor of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University; Director, Obetech Obesity Research Center, Richmond, VA 23219

Martin A. Nowak

Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Charles N. Serhan

Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115

Pamela A. Silver

Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School and The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Bernhard O. Palsson

Department of Bioengineering University of California, San Diego, San Diego CA 92093-0412

Shuji Ogino

Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Edmond J. Yunis

Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115

Keynote Speakers

Dimiter S. Dimitrov

Frederick National Lab Building 469, Room 150B Frederick MD-21702-1201

Attilio Di Pietro

Institute of Protein Biology & Chemistry BMSSI, CNRS University of Lyon 1

Eric Hoffman

Research Center for Genetic Medicine Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue N.W., Washington DC 20010

Ali Khademhosseini

Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA 02139

Robert Linhardt

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Anne and John Broadbent, Jr. '59 Senior Constellation Chair, Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering

Mark Moloney

Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA

Jeffrey Skolnick

Director, Center for the Study of Systems Biology Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology Director, Integrative BioSystems Institute Professor, School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology 250 14th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30318

Jeffrey B. Ulmer

Global Head of External Research Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Cambridge, MA 02139

William B. Weglicki

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Washington D.C

Track Chairs

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Track)

Anton Buzdin
(Hong Kong)

Pathway Pharmaceuticals Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Alain Chapel
(France)

Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) F-92262 Fontenay aux Roses cedex France

Plant and Environment (Track)

Brahmadeo Dewprashad
(USA)

Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY 199 Chambers Street NY 1007 USA

Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto
(Spain)

Department of Agroforestry Engineering University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Universitario s/n E-27002 Lugo Spain

Qing Liu
(Australia)

CSIRO Agriculture Flagship GPO Box 1600 ACT 2601 Australia

Other Areas (Track)

JinXia Ma
(USA)

Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

Regenerative Medicine (Track)

Jay Hoying
(USA)

Cardiovascular Innovation Institute University of Louisville 302 E Muhammad Ali Blvd Louisville, KY 40202, USA

Daria Narmoneva
(USA)

Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Cincinnati 2901 Woodside Dr., ERC – 850, ML 0012 Cincinnati, OH 45221

Nancy L. Parenteau
(USA)

Parenteau BioConsultants, LLC Fair Haven, VT, USA