Speakers

Plenary and Keynotes

Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.

A. W. Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology), Director, E.L. Steele Laboratories, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology, Director, Vanderbilt Center for Matrix Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

George A. Calin, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA

Jurgen Wess, Ph.D.

Chief, Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Arthur M. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D.

Laura H. Carnell, Professor, Cardiovascular Research Center and Translational Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D.

Chief, Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, NIH, Baltimore, MD

Mulchand S. Patel, Ph.D.

SUNY Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, NY

Najam Sharif, Ph.D.

Vice President and Global Head, Research and Development, Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc.
Dallas, TX

Khalid Shah, M.S., Ph.D.

Professor, Harvard Medical School Founder and Director, Center for Stem Cell & Translational Immunotherapy, Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA

Featured Speakers

Richard N. Kolesnick, M.D.

Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Molecular Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY

Rama Khokha, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Canada

Hai Rao, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Masakazu Kamata, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Arts and Humanities, Birmingham, AL

David Van Vactor, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Md. Abul Hassan Samee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Qiaoyi Xu, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Jie Xu, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Arupratan Das, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Ya (Allen) Cui, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA

Sushant Bhatnagar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL

G.W. Gant Luxton, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA

Yijing Su, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Mohammad Alinoor Rahman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Sibaji Sarkar, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor, Division of Biotechnology, Quincy College, MBC College, RC College, Boston, MA

Francesca Zappa, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist I, Altos Labs Bay Area Institute of Science, Altos Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA

Sebastian Oltean, MBBS, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, UK

Simin Zafardoust, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Avicenna Infertility Clinic, Iran

Juan Fuxman Bass, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Boston University
Boston, MA

Adam Johnston, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Medical Neuroscience
Dalhousie University
Canada

Allison Herman, Ph.D.

Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH), Baltimore, MD

Kai Yang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Jessica Silva-Fisher, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Pravat Kumar Parida, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research Berhampur, India

Anna Bianchi-Smiraglia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Oncology, Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY

Zhiyong He, Ph.D.

Biomarker and Genomic Sciences Group, Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Samuel Saibil, M.D., Ph.D.

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Immunology, University of Toronto, Canada

Cynthia A. Bradham, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Chair of Cell and Molecular Biology, Boston University
Boston, MA

Dewan S. Raja, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Anatomy
AUC School of Medicine
Netherland Antilles

Arnon Henn, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Stefano Da Sacco, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Urology, GOFARR Laboratory for Organ Regenerative Research and Cell Therapeutics in Urology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Chongbei Zhao, Ph.D.

Director
Cellular, Tissue & Molecular Biology, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO

Yoori Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of New Biology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea

Yaqing Zhang, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI

Shahin Rafii, M.D.

Arthur B. Belfer Professor of Genetic Medicine, Hartman Institute for Therapeutic Organ Regeneration, Ansary Stem Cell Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Qingfei Jiang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Hongmei Mou, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Mucosal Immunology Research Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Tomas Grousl, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Cell Signalling, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Laura Kresty, Ph.D., M.S.

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

John Blenis, Ph.D.

Professor of Cancer Research and Pharmacology, The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Meijing Wang, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Jessica E. Thaxton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Elena Kuzmin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Centres for Applied Synthetic Biology & Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Canada

Jaime L. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

G. Ian Gallicano, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

Edson Baltazar Estrada-Arriaga, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Department of Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA), Mexico

Golnaz Karoubi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto, Scientist Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories, Canada

Panagiotis Ntziachristos, Ph.D.

Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

Santanu Paul, Ph.D.

Professor and Head, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, India

Sang W. Park, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Kazuhito Toyooka, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Tianmin Fu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

Astero Klampatsa, Ph.D.

Group Leader, Thoracic Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK

Irina Matei, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Cell & Developmental Biology, Cornell University
New York, NY

Manu Beerens, Ph.D.

Group Leader, Endothelial Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Vasily A. Yakovlev, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA

Rajarshi Chakrabarti, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Young Researchers

Sean Raph, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) Baltimore, MD

Hilal Kalkan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher, University Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec, Laval University, Canada

Poster Presentations

Olanrewaju Fatola

Department of Veterinary Anatomy
University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Elena N. Pokidysheva

Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Nikhil Nunna

Department of Biological, Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program, Fremont, CA

Thomas Ma

Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Swarada Kulkarni

Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Nashville, TN

Akraam Ali

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Michael Sun

Great Neck South High School
New York, NY

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