Degree in Biology (1997) at the University of Bari, Bari, Italy; PhD in Immunology (2008) at the University of Bari, Bari, Italy Consultant in Immunology (2012-2014) at the University of Bari, Bari, Italy; Research Professor of Immunology and General Pathology at the University of Bari, Bari, Italy, since 2015; Fields of interest: Immunonutrition, mucosal immunology, microbial immunity; Publications listed in PubMed: 55; Editorial Board Member of: Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, Endocrine Metabolic Immune Disorders-Drug Targets, Clinical Immunology Endocrine Metabolic Drugs, Recent Patent in Biotechnology.

Kostas N. Priftis, MD is Associate Professor in Paediatric Pulmonology, at the Children’s Respiratory and Allergy Unit, Third Department of Paediatrics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Greece. Graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1976) and defended his PhD thesis at the University of Athens (1982). Completed his residency training in Paediatrics at the University of Patras (1985) and a research fellowship in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Children’s Respiratory Unit, University of Nottingham Medical School, UK (1989). His research focuses on childhood asthma, chronic endobronchial infections, breath sounds and allergy. He has authored more than 160 scientific publications in peer reviewed international journals (h-index 31), edited 5 books or special issues (in English) and his work has received over 3,100 citations. This period serves as chair of Bronchology Group of the ERS Paediatric Assembly.

Dr Vincenzo Triggiani is Adjunct Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases and Coordinator of the 1st Level Degree Course of Dietistic at the University of Bari, Italy. His current fields of interest are dealing with the Impact of Endocrine and Metabolic comorbidities on the development and prognosis of Heart Failure; Thyroid Nodule and Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma; Male hypogonadism; Regulation of the secretion of neuro-hypophyseal hormones, vasopressin and oxitocin. He is author of more than 100 papers and books chapters.

Dr. Khan is the full Professor at the Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), Pakistan. In 17 years of professional experience, he has significantly contributed to the teaching and training of pharmacy graduate and pharmacy-related services. Dr. Khan is the member of AWKUM syndicate, executive member of Pharmacy council of Pakistan KP and editorial member of more than 10 journals. He is the author of 207 articles including editorial, review, research and three books. Moreover, several post-graduate scholars are working under his supervision.

Dr. Nagaoka is a Full Professor at the Department of Host Defense and Biochemical Research, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. In 20 years of his professional experience, he has contributed to the teaching and training of medical students and medical graduate students. Dr. Nagaoka is the president of the Japanese Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society (JEIIS) and Society for Functional Food Research. He is also the councilor of the Japan Mibyou Association and the Japanese Society for Medical Use of Functional Foods. Besides, he is the author of 236 original articles, 25 review articles and 8 chapters of the books.

Mohamed Eddouks is Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Errachidia, Morocco. His contribution includes 4 international books, 5 special issues in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine and more than 100 indexed peer-reviewed articles. He served as Guest Editor and Member of Editorial Board of several international journals. He has been honored with the first Prize of Scientific Research in 2008 by the Moroccan Association of Research and Development and the first Prize of the Federation of Arab Scientific Councils in 2016. He has been the founding Dean of Polydisciplinary Faculty of Errachidia from 2008 to 2012.

Omar Cauli is full professor of Pathophysiology and Research Methodology at University of Valencia, Department of Nursing(Valencia, Spain).His current fields of interest are: pathophysiology in neuropsychiatric disorders and aging-associated impairment in physical and cognitive function. Especially in the last decade, he has published several observational and experiental studies in humas about inflamatory and metabolic alterations in patients with neuropsychiatric disorders and in older individuals. He is author of more than 120 papers (100 scientific papers are listed in PUBMED, updated to december 2018), even including books and chapters of books.

Dr Giovanni De Pergola is specialized in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (EMD), He has done PhD in EMD, Now he is Associate Professor in Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Bari, Italy. He has contributed to several Italian Guidelines or Consensus for the management and treatment of obesity, Also he has been in the National Board of the Italian Scientific Society of Obesity (SIO) and Diabetes (SID) and has been President of the Apulian section of the same societies. Until May 2019, he has produced 146 articles “in extenso”, published in international journals with referee and impact factor higher than 1.0

Edoardo Guastamacchia is a Professor of Endocrinology for the courses of Dietistic, Surgery and Medicine and for the specializations in Endocrinology. He has had a post-degree stage at Clinique des Maladies Metaboliques et Endocriennes of Montpellier, France (Direttore Prof. J. Mirouze) [1985-1986]. He is among the board editors of the Italian Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and he was regional referent of the same association from 2005 to 2010. He is trainer of the Associazione Medici Diabetologi (AMD) since 1996 and national coordinator for the AME diabetes’ group since 2005. His fields of expertise include: complications related to diabetes’ diseases; continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII); impact of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases on the onset and progression of Heart Failure, specifically subclinical hypothyroidism and heart failure. His scientific productions include 80 peer-reviewed publications and more than 140 abstracts.

Dr. Akash is currently working as associate professor and chairman at Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan. He got his bachelor and master degrees in pharmacy from Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan and PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Analysis from Zhejiang University, China. He has published more than 109 articles in internationally recognized peer-reviewed ISI-indexed journals. He has also published 30 book chapters with international publishers and 3 books with Springer-Nature. Currently, he is focusing on the investigating the effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on various molecular and metabolic pathways that are involved in metabolic disorders and the treatment strategies of these EDCs-induced metabolic disorders funded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. His Research work is the cutting edge and worthy of extension in developing countries like Pakistan, where it can be most beneficial and cost-effective especially for diabetic patients. Based on his significant scientific contributions in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences, he has been awarded “Research Productivity Award” from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), PAS Gold Medal from Pakistan Academy of Sciences and A.R. Shakoori Gold Medal from Zoological Society of Pakistan.

Dr. Bhat is currently working as a research scientist at Dept. of Translational Medicine, Sidra Medicine, Qatar. He completed his PhD from one of the premier institutes (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS) in India, where his research topic was vaccine immunology. After his Ph.D., he moved to Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN, USA for a postdoctoral fellowship. During his eight years of postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt, he has gained broad experience in the field of cancer biology. His focus of the research was on the role and regulation of tight junction proteins (Claudins) in colorectal cancer and the role of bile acid-induced APE1/Ref1 in esophageal adenocarcinoma. He has published in well-reputed journals like Nature Communications, GUT, Oncogene, Cancer Research, Molecular Cancer and many more enlisted in his CV. He has attended many international meetings, conferences, symposia to present his research results. He has been awarded from Immunology society and American Association of Cancer research. He has also been awarded as an outstanding researcher from Sidra Medicine. He is an active member of many immunological and cancer societies. He is also serving in the editorial board and review committee of many journals.

Professor Anna Capasso received her Degree in Pharmacy (1986), Master in Pharmacology (1988), PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1992) from University of Naples Federico II, Italy. During her PhD studies she studied the interferences between glucocorticoids and the opiod system. From 1993 to 2002 was Researcher in Pharmacology and from 2002 at today is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at University of Salerno, Italy Professor Capasso is Founder and Editor in Chief of Pharmacologyonline. Editor in Chief of The Open Biochemistry Journal and Associate Editor of The Open Neurology Journal She is Member of the Editorial Board of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, Phytotherapy Research, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry-Central Nervous System Agents, Letters in Drug Design & Discovery, Medicina, Biomedical Research and many others Prof. Capasso is member of Italian Society of Pharmacology, Italian Society of Neurosciences and International Narcotics Research Conference Group. Prof. Capasso research is documented by about 500 publications (H-index: 27) including full papers, book chapters and congressional papers Her Research topics are: Neuropharmacology, Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry, Addiction

Dr. Fanlei Hu is currently working as associate professor in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, China. He received his Bachelor Degree in Clinical Medicine from Shandong First Medical University (2006), and PhD Degree in Immunology from Peking University (2011). After that, he joined Peking University People’s Hospital as a research scientist. He has long been focusing on the study of the pathogenesis mechanism, immune diagnosis and therapy of autoimmune diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), achieving series of innovative findings with potential theoretical significance and clinical application value. He has published 20 peer reviewed papers as first/corresponding author in recent 5 years in reputed journals, including Nature Communications, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Journal of Autoimmunity, Journal of Immunology, European Journal of Immunology, et al (H-index: 17). He has applied and been authorized 5 invention patents and more than 10 research grants. He has attended many international and domestic scientific conferences, and given more than 20 plenary talks. He has been awarded many scientific prizes, including Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, Beijing Medical Science and Technology Award, Chinese Immunology Academic Prize-Young Scholar Award, and so forth. He is also serving in the editorial board of Frontiers in Immunology and Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine.

Dr. Jia obtained his Ph.D. from School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, China in 2004. After Ph. D. study, he went to Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA, as a visiting scientist from 2005 to 2010. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2012 at Wuhan University. Dr. Jia’s research interests mainly focus on the regulation of immune responses, the development of anti-cancer therapy, and the regulation of pre-mRNA alternative splicing.

Dr. Ghulam Md Ashraf is currently working as an Associate Professor at King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ashraf received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University (India) in 2010. He has to his credit 189 publications ranging from peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters published with the scholarly publishers. He has been involved in 13 research projects funded by various agencies of Saudi Arabia and is a member of several renowned professional associations and organizations. Currently, he focuses on investigating the expression of proteins involved in causation, progression and potential therapy of neurological disorders. He is also interested in exploring the inherent connection of neurological disorders with other chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes, using proteomics and nanotechnological tools. Dr. Ashraf is involved in an editorial capacity in many reputed journals, like PLOS one, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Current Proteins and Peptides, Journal of Proteomics, to mention a few.

Gholamreza Azizi is an investigator in the Non-communicable Diseases Research Center at Alborz University of Medical Sciences. His research focus is on understanding the immunological mechanisms of immune regulation in patients with primary immunodeficiency and autoimmunity. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Dr. Fabrizio Bruschi graduated in 1979 in Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy. Hematology Specialization, University of Pisa, Italy. He obtained the Certificat d'Etudes Superieures in Immunologie et Pathologie Parasitaires at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Researcher since 1984, confirmed since 1987, then Associate Professor in General Pathology, Medical Faculty, University of Perugia,Italy (1992-1997), then University of Pisa, Italy until 2002. Research interests include: host-parasite relations in a model of helminthic infection such as trichinellosis of which different aspects, both experimental and clinic have been studied. At present he is President of the Società Italiana di Parassitologia He is author or co-author of over 130 publications among which chapters in books from international publishers. Since 2014 he is a member of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine (NSTM), Houston, Texas (U.S.A.).

Dr. Arvind Chhabra is currently a Professor & Director at the Stem Cell Institute, Amity University, Gurgram, Haryana, India. He received PhD Research Fellowship (1995-2000), from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India (to pursue Ph.D. research at the Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow, India). He has around 27 peer reviewed publications to his credit.

Dr. George Chrousos is Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology and Chairman of the First Department of Pediatrics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Dr. Chrousos pioneered studies that elucidated the effects of stress on the organism at the behavioral, neuroendocrine, cellular and molecular levels and made fundamental contributions to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of pituitary, adrenal and stress-related pathologies, i.e., major depression, obesity/metabolic syndrome, and autoimmune/inflammatory, reproductive and sleep disorders. He made seminal observations in the glucocorticoid signaling system and deciphered some of its key clinical implications. Dr. Chrousos is universally regarded as one of the most prominent paediatricians and endocrinologists.

Dr. Elmadfa was Trained in Nutritional Sciences (MSc), PhD and Habilitation in Nutritional physiology at JLU Giessen, Germany. Till 1990 he was university assistant, dozent and full professor at the Institute of Nutrition, JLU Giessen and 1990-2011 Founding Director and professor of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna. His research interests covered Nutrient requirements in health and disease (member of WG Dietary Reference Intake Values for Central European Countries), Monitoring of nutrition and health status, Nutrient bioavailability, Immuno-nutrition, Food safety and quality. He was coordinator, partner and work package leader of many nationally and ten EU- funded projects, author of the Austrian Nutrition Report (1998, 20003, 2008, 2012), the European Nutrition and Health Report (2004 and 2009) and over 400 original publications in international scientific journals.

Agostino Gaudio is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Catania (Italy). He graduated in 1998 from the Medical School of the University of Messina (Italy), where he completed his residency in Internal Medicine (2003) and defended his PhD thesis in “Clinical and Experimental Nephrology” (2008). His research focuses on osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases. He is author of more than 70 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals (H-index 22).

Dr. Asghar Ghasemi is Associate Professor at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Tehran, Iran) and Director of Endocrine Physiology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences. He has been interested in evaluating role of nitric oxide in pathophysiology of metabolic disorders especially type 2 diabetes. During the last 10 years, he has been focusing on therapeutic applications of nitric oxide-releasing agents in type 2 diabetes and related complications. He is author of more than 120 peer-reviewed international papers and 3 book chapters. Dr Ghasemi’s scientific contribution is also reflected by several recent review articles about nitric oxide in health and disease.

Dr. Giagulli is head of Outpatient Clinic Unit for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Conversano Hospital and professor of Endocrinology for nursing degree program at the University of Bari (Italy). Dr. Giagulli was Researcher fellow in Endocrinology of the University of Ghent (Belgium) and Professor of Endocrinology at the Post-Graduate School of Endocrinology in Bologna (Italy). He obtained a Postgraduate in Endocrinology from the University of Bari, a doctorate (Ph.D) in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases from the University of Bari and Naples and a Master's degree in Andrology from the University of Florence (Italy). He published more than 60 scientific publications and is currently on the Board of Italian AACE (American Association for Clinical Endocrinologists) Chapter.

Biplab Giri is working as Professor of Physiology in the University of Gour Banga, India. He obtained his Masters in Physiology from the University of Calcutta. He received his Ph.D. degree in the area of Cancer Biology from the University of Calcutta and pursued post-doctoral research work in USA on Cancer Biology and on Stem Cell Biology. He received ‘SEBM Young Scientist Mentee award, USA’ in the year 2007. His areas of research interest include Cancer Biology, Molecular Pharmacology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorder. He is reviewer in Nature Group, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Pubmed Central, iMedPub etc.

Dr. Hardy did his medical studies at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada (1979-1984) and a specialization in Pediatrics-Neonatology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (1985-1994). He continued his training with a doctorate in pharmacology at the University of Montreal, Canada (1995-2000) and a fellowship at the Institute of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Philadelphia (2000-2002). His areas of expertise are: angiogenesis, retina, eye, retinopathy, microvesicles, macrophages, retinoblastoma, macular degeneration, and microenvironment. Research of Dr. Hardy field covers the role of the microvesicles of cellular origin on pathological angiogenesis and tumor development and their effects on the modulation of the microenvironment including macrophages. He assesses how the environment within the retinal or tumor tissue changes functions and the phenotype of the macrophages.

Dr. Asiful Islam completed his PhD in genetics of antiphospholipid syndrome from Human Genome Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2018. Currently, he is working as a senior lecturer in the same university under the Department of Haematology. He has published around 34 (Web of Science-indexed) journal articles so far (total impact factor 2018: 107.057 citations: 554; h-index:13; i10-index: 16). He has been working as an academic editor for the journal PLOS ONE. His current major research interest includes haematological malignancies in autoimmune diseases.

Dr. Jacobs studied chemistry and obtained his doctorate (PhD) from the university of Hamburg, Germany. Since then his scientific interests are mainly focused on regulation of T cells during infectious diseases by co-inhibitory molecules and how these molecules contribute to the development of the immune response that can either lead to protection or pathology. 2000 he joined the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine in Hamburg (Germany) as senior scientist. Since 2016 he is head of the newly formed group “Protozoan Immunology” which is mainly working on malaria and chagas disease.

Dr. Dongyang Liu is director of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometric Office of Chinese Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH). He learned and studied on pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) in Department of Pharmaceutical in State University of New York at Buffalo and Office of Clinical Pharmacology at FDA/CDER. Up to now, he took part in more than 60 clinical proof-of-concept trials and published more than 30 international peered articles in journal such as Clin. Pharmacokinet., Lung Cancer, Eur J Pharm Sci. He is majorly interested in early phase clinical development for new drugs, PBPK, PK/PD/Disease modeling and simulation and its application in new drug development and medicine individualization.

Guanghua Luo, with a medical degree, obtained a PhD in 2013 and nominated professor in 2014, is the director of Comprehensive Laboratory in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China. He focuses his scientific interests on the topics related to life-threatening disorders including type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. Also, he engages in the study of the molecular diagnostics in personalized medicine.

Prof. Francesco Marotta has got specialization in Hepato-Gastroenterology. He holds a Japanese Ph.D. granted by Hirosaki University, and Japanese Ministry of Science at National Cancer centre, Tokyo. He has received several international prizes and co- edited 2 successful books on aging- intervention and over 10 book chapters. His skills and expertise are in Antioxidant Activity, Food Analysis, Food and Nutrition, Liver Diseases, and clinical trials. He has contributed more than 250 publications, having citations around 2, 562.

Fehmi Odabasoglu is Associate Professor of the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Kafkas University-Faculty of Medicine, Kars-Turkey. He graduated from Ataturk University-Faculty of Science of Erzurum, Turkey in 1991. Dr. Odabasoglu completed his master's degree in 1994 and his Ph.D. degree in 1999 in Van- YYU. Later, in 2000, he founded the Pharmaceutical Biochemistry Department of Ataturk University-Faculty of Pharmacy and coordinated this unit for 15 years. Since 2014, he has been working as a senior scientist at the Medical Biochemistry Department at the Faculty of Medicine of the Kafkas University. Dr. Odabasoglu’s research interests include inflammation, gastric ulcers, anti-oxidative systems and enzymes, lichens and plant molecules, apoptosis, vegetable oils and molecular isolation-characterization

Airong Qian was born in 1972. She received her PhD degree of Cell Biology in Fourth Military Medical University, 2003. In 2005, she started work in school of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University. Since 2005, Airong Qian’s research had focused on Bone cell biology and space biology. She is the only researcher working on the function of mechano-sensitive molecular MACF1 and osteoblast differentiation and osteoporosis. Her work also includes non-coding RNA and metabolic diseases. Airong Qian is the principal inventor of more than 20 patent applications and she has more than 100 publications. She is the principal applicant of 5 NSFC and 5 national R & D grants.

Since 2006 Eduardo Ortega (Doctor in Biology-Immunology by Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; and Professor of Physiology at the University of Extremadura, Spain) is the founder and head of the Immunophysiology Research Group, mainly focused on the modulation of innate and inflammatory cells by stress messengers at physiological concentrations released after different physiological conditions and strategies; also evaluating the potential dysfunctions in the bidirectional interactions between the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems; particularly with regard to the feedback between stress and inflammatory responses and with special emphasis in the well-balanced innate and inflammatory processes.

Dr. Mustafa Şahin obtained his M.D. degree in 1997 from the Medical Faculty (English) at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Currently, Dr. Şahin is serving as a Professor in the Department of Endocrinology, Docrinology and Metabolism at Ankara University, Turkey. His expertise and interests mainly lie in thyroid cancer, other thyroid diseases, pituitary diseases; microbiota, endocrine disruptors, familial/genetical adrenal diseases and diabetes, etc. Dr. Şahin, as an author/co-author, has published more than 155 manuscripts in various journals, and his documents have received citations greater than 1,245.

Byeong-Wook Song has received his MS and PhD in Molecular genetics and Pathology from Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University. His expertise and interests mainly focus on the inflammatory response of cardiovascular and neurogenerative diseases, the application of stem cell and immune cells, and the RNA regulation of metabolic syndrome. He is author of more than 60 papers and books chapters.

Dr. Lonchin Suguna obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from University of Madras, India in 1991. Currently she is working as a Scientist at the Department of Biochemistry, Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI). Dr. Suguna has around 62 research publications, 4 patents and 1 technology transfer to her credit (with total number of impact fact more than 100 and number of citations more than 1600).

Jin Tao has received his MD and PhD from Nanjing Medical University, China in 2012. He worked as Research Fellow at National University of Singapore and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Washington University School of Medicine, USA. Currently he works as full Professor at Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Soochow University, China. He is currently Head of the Department, Vice Dean of School of Basic Medicine, and Director of Centre for Ion Channelopathies in Soochow University. His research group is mainly using electrophysiological recording and biochemical approaches for drug discovery against ion channels, understanding the roles of neuropeptides and ion channels in pain regulation. He is the Editorial Board member of Research Journal of Pharmacology, Stem Cell Discovery, and Protein & Peptide letters.

Dr. Reza Yazdani is phD of immunology and an researcher in the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. His research field is about basic and clinical immunology; however the main scientific contributions over the past five years were regarding antibody and cellular immunodeficiency disorders. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed international papers by mid- 2019. He has published several recent review articles about primary immunodeficiency disorders.

Chunping Zhang got his Ph.D in development biology from Chinese academic of Science ,China. He completed his Postdoctoral training at Maine medical center and Children hospital of Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), USA. He is currently an associate professor at cell biology and genetic apartment of Nanchang University, China. His research interests lie in exploring the mechanism of normal follicle development and the mechanism of premature ovarian failure and polycystic ovary syndrome. These includes 1) primordial follicle activation,2) granulosa cell proliferation and differentiation,3) the regulation of corpus luteum function and 4) intervention means for premature ovarian failure and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Dr. ASIS BALA, received PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata India and Completed Post-Doc. at Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, South Africa. His area of interest are, Pharmacology; Toxicology; Free Radical Biology and cellular Inflammation and Immunopharmacology of metabolic and autoimmune diseases and Pathophysiology. He supervised number of Masters and PhD students and acquired more than 500 Scopus citation in 2020 (April) having Scopus h index 14.

Antara Banerjee, after her Ph.D, pursued her post-doctoral research at University of Padova, Italy and University of Sweden for 6 years. Presently she is continuing as Assistant Professor (SG) in CARE, Chennai. She has published over 48 high impact peer reviewed articles in International/ National Journals. She is serving as Editorial Board member and reviewer in several International, National Journals and Core Committee member/reviewer for International grants. Recently she has been awarded with Awarded Young Scientist award by DST SERB, ECR award, Govt of India for a period of 2017-2020. Her research Interest focuses on regenerative biology and Oncology.

Dr. Hemanth Kumar Kandikattu, Ph.D. is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Section of Pulmonary Diseases at Tulane School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Dr. Hemath Kandikattu is working on the role of eosinophils in allergic diseases and on pancreatitis and its progression to pancreatic cancer. Dr. Hemanth graduated with Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology followed by Master of Science in Biochemistry at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. He then undertook Ph.D. training at Defence Food Research Laboratory and University of Mysore, Mysore, India. Dr. Hemanth completed his PostDoctoral training in Cardiovascular Medicine from University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.

Dr. Gen-Min Lin has been a Faculty Member of the Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital in Taiwan and started cardiovascular researches since 2003. With a collaboration with the Department of Public Health in Tzu-Chi University, he used the eastern Taiwan integrated health care delivery system of Coronary Heart Disease (ET-CHD) registry, 1997-2006, to complete serial longitudinal studies for the association of cardiovascular risk factors with cardiac and overall mortality in patients with CHD. During 2013-2014, he had been a visiting scholar in the Department of Preventive Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago and has become an investigator of the Multi-Ethnic Atherosclerosis Study (MESA). In 2018, he obtained Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) in National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan. His study interests include cardiovascular medicine, epidemiology study, signal analysis, big data mining, and artificial intelligence in imaging and medicine. Dr. Gen-Min Lin has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, edited/reviewed for many academic journals and attended as an editorial board member in some peer-review journals in the past 10 years. Now, he leads the Internal Medicine Department of Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, in Hualien, Taiwan and promoted to be a Colonel in the Military.

Dr. Surajit Pathak is an Indian born research scientist, advisor and an Associate Professor at CHETTINAD ACADEMY OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, Chennai who has multiple expertise encompassing endocrinology, cancer biology, stem cell and regenerative medicine. He started active research in the year 2001 and received his Ph.D. from University of Kalyani, INDIA in 2007.Worked in USA, Italy and Sweden over 10 years with 930 citations. Dr. Pathak has published over 52 papers till date.

Dr Pranav Kumar Prabhakar has received his PhD in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India during the period of 2011 and he has completed his master in biochemistry from Patna University Bihar, India in 2003. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in Lovely Professional University Punjab, India. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as research coordinator of the school. His research has included synergy, Phytomedicine, metabolic disorders. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals and expert Reviewers for many journals. He has authored 35+ research articles/books/ book chapters. He is a member of Royal Society of Chemistry and Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (APCBEES).

Dr. Singh research is focused on deciphering the role of a multi-domain scaffolding protein NEDD9 in gastrointestinal cancers and breast cancer. NEDD9 provides a signaling complex regulating multiple cellular processes relevant to cancer. These include responsiveness to signals emanating from the T and B cell receptors, integrins, chemokine receptors, and receptor tyrosine kinases, as well as cytoplasmic oncogenes such as BCR-ABL and FAK- and SRC-family kinases. NEDD9 is known to influence functions as migration, invasion, survival, and mitosis. He discovered a novel protein CASS4 which is currently being studied for its role in regulation of metastasis and immune components in lung cancers.In addition,He is identifying molecular subtypes in gallbladder cancer with the goal of characterizing new alterations, confirming genetic differences in these distinct subtypes of gallbladder cancer so as to decipher potentially targetable genetic aberrations."

Dr. Yu obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China. He is currently a Deputy Director of Laboratory Animal Center of Zhejiang province, a Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Gene Editing, and a Professor at Laboratory Animal Center, Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences. He is also the evaluation expert of National natural science foundation, and Chinese Ministry of Education. He has hosted several national and provincial programs and published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Cheng Zhang is an associated professor of reproductive biology of Capital Normal University. He completed his undergraduate training in Veterinary Medicine at Ningxia University, received Master of Veterinary Medicine from the Ningxia University, and Ph.D. (Physiology) from the China Agricultural University. He was as a visitor scholar from 2008 to 2011 in University of Ottawa.

Dr. Juan Gambini completed his bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Valencia in 2001 and obtained a predoctoral fellowship. He has made three stays in in foreign research centers 2 in Dallas (USA), in the SMU University, and another one in Dusseldorf (Germany) in Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. He has been awarded a degree of PhD from the University of Valencia in 2007. He has participated in 30 research projects, having H-index 25 more than 2000 citations. He is currently working in the field of nutrition and longevity.

He was selected as the Outstanding Youth Research Talent Cultivation Program in Colleges and Universities in Fujian Province. He was a member of the standing committee Reproductive Health of Chinese Rehabilitation Medical Association, member of Fujian Medical Genetics Society, member of the standing Committee of Cancer Sequencing and Large Data Collaboration Group of China Anti-Cancer Association. Research Direction: enzymes and pain. As project leader, he is responsible for the youth and general program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81201362, No.81571613, and No.81871293) and participation in two National Major Basic Research "863" Programs. A series of innovative results were obtained in the fields of autoimmune diseases, pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer. More than 20 papers were published as the first author or correspondent author index by SCI and the impact factor was over 100, including "Cell Death & Disease", "EBioMedicine", "Int J Nanomedicine", "Biosensors & Bioelectronics" and other academic journals. The first prize winner received the 2009, 2014 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Award. For his outstanding contribution, he was awarded the May4th Youth medal in Fuzhou.

Dr. Surajit Pathak is an Indian born research scientist and an Associate Professor at CHETTINAD ACADEMY OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, Chennai who has expertise encompassing cancer biology, stem cell biology. He started active research in the year 2001 and received his Ph.D. from INDIA in 2007. Dr. Pathak Worked in USA, Italy and Sweden over 9 years with 1010 citations. Dr. Pathak has published over 60 peer reviewed papers till date.