Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets

Prof. Dr. Juan Pablo Damián obtained his Doctorate in Animal Production from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of the Republic (UDeLaR), Montevideo, Uruguay. Dr. Damián is currently affiliated with University of the Republic and is working there in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. His areas of interest include Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Veterinary Biochemistry, and Genetics and Molecular Biology. Dr. Damián, as an author/co-author, has published over 25 manuscripts in various national/international journals.

Dr. Magdaléna Chottová Dvořáková is presently serving as an Associate Professor (Doc.) at Dpt. of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Her area of interests are Innervation of the heart, changes of the heart innervation under pathophysiologic conditions (diabetes mellitus, liver failure, stress), immunohistochemistry, laser microdissection, RT-qPCR. She has also contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Xiangsheng Fu is currently as a Professor at The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2009 in the field of colorectal cancer at Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. His main research interests are 1. Gut microbiota, 2. The carcinogenesis of Fusobacterium nucleatum in the colorectal cancer. He has published his work in both International & National journals.

Dimitrios Kanakis is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. Dr Kanakis holds a MD from the University of Novi Sad (Republic of Yugoslavia) and a PhD (Magna Cum Laude) from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Germany). He has received the Specialty of Neuropathology from the Medical Corp of Nordrhein in Düsseldorf/Germany (September 2011) and the Specialty of General Pathology from the General Directorate of Public Health and Social Welfare of the Region of Thessaly in Larissa/Greece (January 2013). His research interests are predominantly in the fields of Neuro-Oncology, Neuro-Degenerative and Demyelinating Diseases, as well as Neuro-Developmental and Neuro-Muscular Disorders.

Dr. Ning Li is currently a professor of natural products research at the School of Pharmacy, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 in Phytochemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests are isolation and structural elucidation of bioactive natural products from herbal medicines and fungi, especially from traditional Chinese medicines.

J.H. Mukdsi is currently as an Associate Professor at Electron Microscopy Center. School of Medicine, National University of Córdoba. Argentine. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from National University of Córdoba. His main research interests are Electronmicroscopy morphology, Kidney pathology, Immuelectronmicroscopy, Glomerulopathies and Neuroendocrinology. He has published his research in International and National Journals.

Jie Pan is currently working as a Professor at the Faculty of Associated Medicine, Chiang Mai University and also working as a Professor at the College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, China. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Dept. of Pathology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Pan has published several articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr Osmar Nascimento Silva obtained BA in Biological Sciences from the Catholic University of Brasilia-UCB (2008), Master in Biological Sciences (Genetics and Biotechnology), Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2010), and a Doctor of Biological Sciences (Genetics and Biotechnology), the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2015). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, UniEVANGELICA. His research interests include identification and validation of new antibiotic targets and Design of effective assays for the development of antibiotics (antimicrobial peptides). He served as a referee for many international journals. Moreover, he has published several papers in well-reputed journals.

Hadi Tabani was born on May 20, 1985, in Tehran, Iran. He received the B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry from Ferdowsi Mashhad University, Mashhad, in 2007 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in analytical chemistry from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor of analytical chemistry with the Department of Environmental Geology, Research Institute of Applied Sciences (ACECR), Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

I obtained my BSc (2003-2005) and M.Phil. (2005-2007) degrees from the University of Hong Kong, before pursuing a Ph.D. in the University of Leeds, UK in 2008 and graduating in 2011. After two and a half years of postdoctoral training at Stony Brook University, NY, USA, I joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in October, 2013, as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and a member of the State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease. My research interests are primarily in the field of gastrointestinal cancers, trying to understand their molecular basis and develop therapeutic approaches to inhibit tumorigenesis, ultimately contributing to improved patient care. I have published in international journals including Gastroenterology, Science Translational Medicine, Cancer Research, Oncogene and Seminars in Cancer Biology. I have also been invited to speak in national and international conferences, including the Digestive Disease Week and United European Gastroenterology Week. His work is supported by external competitive grants from the Research Grant Council-General Research Fund (RGC-GRF), Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), in addition to competitive grants from CUHK. I am a member of Hong Kong Society of Flow Cytometry and a council member of the Hong Kong Society of Immunology.

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.

Ke-feng Zhai is currently as an Associate Professor at Municipal Engineering Research Center of Natural medicine and Functional Food (head), Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Biological and Food Engineering, Suzhou University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2015 in Pharmaceutical University, China. His main research interests are Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Mechanism and target of active ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine, Endothelial dysfunction, Exosome and microRNAs and Rheumatism and inflammation. He has published his work in both International & National Journals.

Ming Zhou received his Ph.D. from Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Nanjing Medical University in 2015. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, China. His research field focuses on public nutrition. Dr. Zhou has published several articles in different well-reputed journals.