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Director Emeritus at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. Founding Director (1993), Director of Department of Immunology at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (1993 to 2019). Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Charité University Clinics Berlin, Germany. Faculty Fellow of Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. Studied biology at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, 1977 PhD (highest degree, summa cum laude). From 1987 to 1991 Professor for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and from 1991 to 1998 Full Professor for Immunology at University of Ulm. Doctor Honoris Causa from Aix-Marseille University. Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edin). Honorary Professor of Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Guest Professor at Tongji University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Visiting Professor at Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

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Nikolai Petrovsky is a Professor of Medicine at Flinders University and Chairman and Research Director of Vaxine Pty Ltd, an Adelaide-based biotechnology company focused on vaccine development. Over the last 18 years he has been awarded multiple vaccine research grants from the US National Institutes of Health. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed research papers and has won many prestigious awards including a Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010 and Asian Executive of the Year award in 2011. His current focus is completing clinical development of a protein-based vaccine against COVID-19.

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Dr. Tobin has a quarter century of expertise building four “New Generation” AAMC Medical Schools and has led as President, multiple prestigious national and international Professional Societies. As a Professor of Medical Science, Biochemistry and Nutrition Science, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine he was a Medical School Associate Dean, Department Chair and is a nationally recognized and awarded Biomedical Scientist. For 25 years, Dr. Tobin trained Family Practice MDs for service in medically underserved, disadvantaged communities. He is presently Executive Director, Synergy Global Health Foundation, Inc.; CEO, Tobin Biomedical Consultants, LLC; and Founder, Well With The World™ Healthcare Video Outreach Productions. Dr. Tobin serves as International Conference Chair for BIOMED-2021, July 22, 2021, Barcelona Spain, an International Interdisciplinary Global Collaborative Conference, which will foster cooperation and international teamwork between science, medicine, biopharmaceuticals, bioengineering, business, law, government and academia, in public and private sectors, worldwide.

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Maria Jose Alonso’s lab has pioneered numerous discoveries in the field of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and nanomedicine. She has coordinated several research consortia financed by the WHO, the Gates Foundation and the European Commission. She is the author of 290 scientific contributions with more than 30,000 cites (H factor 75/93). Because of the quality of her scientific articles she has been among the TOP TEN in Pharmacology (Times Higher Education international ranking, 2010). Recently, she become part of the “Power List” of the most influential researchers in the field of Biopharmaceuticals (The Medicine Maker, 2020). She has received 33 awards, among them the ” Research and Education Excellence Medal” granted by the Spanish Government, the“Jaime I Award”, the General Council of Pharmacy Medal, and other awards granted by scientific organizations, such as the ”Marie Junot Award” of the APGI, the “Founders Award”, the “Outstanding Service Award” and the “Women in Sciences Award” of the CRS. She was also recently awarded by the AIM-HI Women’s Venture Competition program born out of the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR). She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society, a member of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Spain (RANF), the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia, the Royal Academy of Pharmacy in Galicia and a member of theRoyal Academy of Medicine of Belgium and also a member of theUS National Academy of Medicine (NAM).She was the Vice-rector of Research and Innovation of the USC (2006-10).

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Dr. Sherry Layton received her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas where she studied poultry science. Her early career research in poultry immunology and molecular engineering set the foundation for her pioneering scientific successes in animal health. Over the last decade Dr. Layton developed and patented an innovative orally administered inactive sub-unit vaccine platform (One Health Vaccine Platform), Biotech Vac. This research and development led to the recent introduction of Biotech Vac – Salmonella in Latin America, which provides poultry with immunological protection from all mobile Salmonella species, a first in the poultry industry, and will help reduce the risk of food-borne Salmonellosis in humans. Currently, she serves as CEO for Vetanco USA and Chief Scientific Officer for Vetanco International/BV Science, a global animal health and nutrition company where her research focuses on maintaining animal health and ensuring food safety naturally .Dr. Layton currently leads a research team of veterinarians and scientists in the U.S. and South America and has developed a pipeline of pioneering and effective vaccines. She is currently focused on supporting the introduction of Biotech Vac – Salmonella and Biotech Vac Coccidia in Latin America as well as establishing biologicals in the U.S. market with the newly formed Vetanco USA.

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Professor S. Louise Cosby is a graduate (B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology) of Queen’s University Belfast and was a member of staff for over 30 years. She held the post of Chair of Microbiology in the School of Medicine Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences from 2002 to 2015. She is currently Head of Virology Branch at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast and emeritus/honorary Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Professor Cosby is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (London) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK). In 1985 she was a visiting Associate Professor in Cornell University USA and has been an occasional visiting scientist at the Pirbright Institute, UK. Professor Cosby is an editor for 'Vaccines' and 'Frontiers in Microbiology'.

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Camille Locht, PhD, holds currently a position as Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and was the founding director of the Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille at the Institut Pasteur de Lille. He has obtained his PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1984. After a 3-years post-doctoral stay at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, USA, where he started to work on pertussis and cloned the pertussis toxin genes, he joined SmithKline-Beecham (now GSK) to help developing acellular pertussis vaccines. Since 1989 he is the head of a research laboratory at the Institut Pasteur de Lille, where he has been the Scientific Director from 2002 to 2013. His research interest is in molecular pathogenesis of respiratory infections, essentially pertussis and tuberculosis, with the long-term aim to develop new tools to combat these diseases. A very powerful molecular typing system for mycobacteria, invented in his laboratory has already reached the market, and a live attenuated nasal pertussis vaccine has now successfully completed phase I trials and is currently in phase II. He also has discovered a protective mycobacterial latency antigen, called heparin-binding haemagglutinin (HBHA), which appears to be a powerful tool for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis and for risk stratification of latently infected subjects. He has authored close to 350 international publications, book chapters and patents and has obtained several research awards.

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Dr. Wieslaw Swientnicki is a Biochemist/Molecular Biologist working on bacterial virulence systems. His Main interests are type III secretion systems(T3SS) from EPEC, Y. pestis and P. aeruginosa. The second interests are antibacterials, therapeutics and prophylactics, for human pathogens. The work involves a lot of bioinformatics and computational chemistry methods to design small molecules blocking vital components of pathogens’ metabolism. For vaccines, the work involves a lot of synthetic and systems biology as tools to design next generation of bacterial vaccines.

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Sergey Suchkov was born in the City of Astrakhan, Russia, in a family of dynasty medical doctors. In 1980, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University and was awarded with MD. In 1985, maintained his PhD as a PhD student of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy and Institute of Medical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2001, maintained his Doctor Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. From 1985 through 1987, worked as a Post Doc Research Associate, for Institute of Medical Enzymology; from 1987 through 1989, was a Senior Research Associate, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1989 through 1995, was a Head of the Lab of Immunology and Immunobiotechnology, Helmholtz Eye Research Institute in Moscow. In 1989, trained at the Lab of Immunology, NEI, Bethesda, MD, USA,, NIH and Lab of Immunology, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, USA, as well as at some of the British Universities on the invitation of the Royal Society for Immunology. From 1995 through 2004, was a Director of the Dept for Immu-nology, Moscow Clinical Research Institute (MONIKI).

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Yehuda Shoenfeld is the founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, at the Sheba Medical Center, which is affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University, in Israel. Professor Shoenfeld is also the Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at the Tel-Aviv University. Professor Shoenfeld’s clinical and scientific works focus on autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and he has published more than 2000 papers in journals such as New Eng J Med, Nature, Lancet, Proc Nat AcadScie, J Clin Invest, J Immunol, Blood, FASEB, J Exp Med, Circulation, Cancer and others. His articles have had over 65,000 citations. He has written more than 350 chapters in books, and has authored and edited 35 books, some of which became cornerstones in science and clinical practice, such as "The Mosaic of Autoimmunity", "Infections and Autoimmunity" and the textbook "Autoantibodies" and "Diagnostic criteria of autoimmune diseases", all of which were published by Elsevier and sold thousands of copies. Professor Shoenfeldis on the editorial boards of 43 journals in the field of rheumatology and autoimmunity and is the founder and the editor of the IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal) the representative journal of science and medicine in the English language in Israel, and also is the founder and Editor of Autoimmunity Reviews (Elsevier) (Impact factor 8.9) and co-Editor of the Journal of Autoimmunity (Impact factor 8).For the past twenty years Yehuda has been the Editor of “Harefuah” – The Israel journal in medicine (Hebrew).

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Dr. Daniel Henderson is a co-founder, chief executive officer and chief scientific officer of Verndari, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in Napa, California, that aims to transform global health through vaccine science. Prior to Verndari, Dr. Henderson co-founded and served as president of PaxVax, a company based in Redwood City, California, focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing specialty vaccines to protect against existing and emerging infectious diseases, such as typhoid, cholera and hepatitis A for travelers to countries without adequate water sanitation. Separately, PaxVax worked on anthrax vaccines for the U.S. military.While at PaxVax, Dr. Henderson was the named principal investigatoron a virus vectored oral bird flu vaccine (H5) with funding of $10 million for a phase one clinical trial (Wellcome Trust HN-#704483, 2008). PaxVax was later sold to Emergent BioSolutions in 2018.In 2016, PaxVax was named Best Early-Stage Vaccine Biotech company at the 16th annual World Vaccine Congress in Washington, D.C. Dr. Henderson was the founder, president and CEO of Calydon, a private U.S. biotechnology company located in Sunnyvale, California, which focused on developing therapeutics for cancer. At Calydon, which was sold to Cell Genesys in 2004, he patented a method for genetically engineering an adenovirus targeting prostate cancer. Dr. Henderson has been recognized as one of two pioneers in the field of oncolytic virotherapy (Nettelbeck, D., October 2003 and July 2008, Tumor Busting Viruses, Scientific American). Dr. Henderson was also founder, president and CEO of Microgenics Corporation. At Microgenics, Dr. Henderson, invented the groundbreaking CEDIA™ immunoassay system, a bioanalytical method that uses the specificity of an antigen-antibody reaction to detect molecules in biological samples. Microgenics was acquired by Boehringer Mannheim in 1991, which in turn was bought by Roche. The SEC required Roche to sell certain CEDIA products, which resulted in a rebirth of Microgenics that was later acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific. In 2015, Dr. Henderson was awarded the biennial Ullman Prize for Technology Innovation by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry for this groundbreaking work developing the CEDIA™ system. More than $1 billion of CEDIA™ tests are now sold annually, the majority by Roche, with a significant component from Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Dr. Pirouz M Daftarian serves as the Director of Scientific Engagement IO/Vaccines and Inflammation at CrownBio. He is a cellular and molecular immunologist with 20-year experience in Immuno-Oncology and vaccinology. Pirouz is also a volunteer faculty of University of Miami. Pirouz has shepherded R&D operations in biotech companies, and academia, acted as DOD and NIH intramural panel reviewer, and is the principal inventor of several IO related regular patents. He has authored more than 70 peer reviewed papers. Pirouz completed his PhD in the Ottawa University, his postdoctoral training in the City of Hope National Medical Centre. Prior to JSR Life Sciences, he has served as a faculty Miller School of Medicine University of Miami, and in industry, NGM Biopharmaceutical, Immunovaccine, and ABTVAX (as a co-founder). Dr. Daftarian is also working as the Applications Senior Manager in MBL International to develop research tools for improving and shortening the process of immune monitoring for the development of immunotherapeutic and vaccines.

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Delese Mimi Darko is a pharmacist by profession with a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Northampton. Her 28 year carrier encompasses the regulation of food and drugs including clinical trials regulation, marketing authorization and post approval safety monitoring of medicines and cosmetics, household chemicals and medical devices. She has risen through the ranks of the Food and Drugs Authority to become the first female Chief Executive Officer in 2017. She led the FDA process of designation by the NEPAD/African Medicines Regulation Harmonization (AMRH) as a Regional Centers of Regulatory Excellence in 3 very critical areas, namely, Medicines Safety (pharmacovigilance), Clinical Trials and Drug Registration. Mimi Chairs the WHO African Vaccines Regulatory Forum and serves on several international and local advisory committees and bodies. She has received several awards for her exemplary and commendable work.

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After a PhD in the field of proteomics of cellular ageing and a post-doc in proteomics, Jean-Francois Dierick entered the Pharmaceutical world. First for SGS, a CRO, where he was leading the Biology Department (Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Toxicology). Then he joined GSK Vaccines where he has occupied several positions related to analytics of biological products both in the development and the commercial areas. Today he is working at GSK Vaccines' Global QC as Global Subject Matter Expert for Analytical Method Validation and Transfer. He is leading or involved in several programs related to the improvement of the Life Cycle management of analytical methods.

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Gautam Sanyal is a scientific leader in the development of analytical and biophysical methods that are essential to batch release and characterization of drug substances and drug products for recombinant proteins and viruses. His expertise extends to rational formulation design, as demonstrated by delivery of several safe and effective formulations to clinical trials that included a stabilizing formulation for the human papilloma virus (HPV) virus like particle (VLP) vaccine, Gardasil. In addition, Gautam is an analytical virologist, with expertise in developing classical as well as novel biophysical assays for characterization of viruses. He has led CMC analytics for oncolytic viruses aimed at cancer immunotherapy. Apart from his extensive work on vaccines and biologics in infection and oncology areas, Gautam led biochemistry, biophysics and protein science teams in target- based discovery of antibacterial therapeutics. He has published extensively research papers, book chapters and review articles. He has also given numerous invited and keynote talks at national and international conferences.

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Claudia is head of the Global platform for Separations in Analytical R&D GSK Vaccines, located in Belgium, Italy and US, leading the technical teams to advance vaccine candidates from late discovery through clinical development phases. She held a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics, and professionally shaped in the R&D environment for analytical development and structural characterization of biomolecules. She joined GSK from Novartis Vaccines in 2015, where formerly covered the role of Product and Process Development Leader for Bexsero Vaccine and leaded the Analytical Biophysic group in ARD Italy.

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Dr. Fuerst is a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland (UMD). He also served as director of the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), UMD, in which the Institute’s mission is focused on biomolecular structure-function relationships and measurement sciences with an emphasis on structure-based vaccine design, next generation protein therapeutics, and macromolecular delivery systems. Dr. Fuerst has over three decades of research and development experience in vaccines and immunotherapeutics. At UMD-IBBR, his current research is focused is on hepatitis C virus, ebolavirus, and SARS-CoV-2, and development of a novel therapeutic approach to specifically target and cleave cancer oncogene targets. Prior to joining UMD, he was a founding scientist at MedImmune and later joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as director of vaccines and biologics in the Office of the Secretary. In this capacity, he helped establish and lead the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) responsible for the development and acquisition of vaccines and immunotherapeutic products for biodefense and other emerging public health threats. Early in his career, he served as a senior fellow at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He holds a BA in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, a PhD in molecular genetics from Cornell University, and a MBA in science, technology, and innovation from the George Washington University.

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Claudia Daniela Alvarez Zuniga is a fifth-year student of Human Medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas (Autonomous University of Zacatecas). For two years she has been a scholarship holder in the Molecular Medicine Laboratory of her university, where she has developed her research field knowledge and participated in the publication of two papers. She has been studying Human Medicine since August of 2016. At the moment, she is participating in an investigation about the role of VE-Cadherin as a diagnostic and prediction biomarker for Acute Linfoblastic Leukemia of cells B type.

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Professor Alejandro de la Pena-Moctezuma is a Full-time Professor “C”, lecturer in Animal Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. He has more than 35 years of teaching experience at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico), currently affiliated at the Altiplano Husbandry reaching Research an Extension Center (CEIEPAA), in Tequisquiapan, Querétaro. He is a research leader in the Epidemiology of Veterinary Leptospirosis and vaccinology of Leptospira. His research interest is focused on the secretine GspD of Leptospira as a potential protective antigen against leptospirosis.

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Atef is an accomplished Operations Management professional with extensive experience in personnel management, general management, process optimization, project management, IT functions and client relations. He has advanced leadership skills with success managing groups to achieve goals and working to bridge the gap between organizational objectives and operational capabilities. Atef was leading the set up of eight Polio Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) in Nigeria funded by the Gates Foundation. The first two EOCs were built within four weeks. He further led the setup of the Ebola EOC in Lagos that was completed within two weeks. Atef was also responsible for building eHA’s Nigerian Operations Department. Prior to joining eHA, Atef worked as operations manager and COO at Electronic connections Ltd. in Kano. Atef holds a BSc in computer communications engineering from the lebanese International university, Beirut.

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Dr. Ellie Abdi has held many academic roles from PK to doctoral level at American & French Universities plus a school district. Prof. Abdi is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals in different countries, a review editor for a Swiss journal & an editor for French Livre de Lyon publishing. She not merely is invited to many editorial journals, scientific committees, conferences, radio & TV stations as an author, presenter & keynote domestically & internationally just as so her research, interviews, and articles have been published on sites & journals globally and domestically. Dr. Abdi is the author of 3 books on education, several chapters in books on biomechanics, chief editor of a medical book, and published more than 40 papers in various journals.

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Loveth is a public health specialist with almost a decade work experience in emergency preparedness, health delivery systems, disease surveillance systems, nutrition, project designs and implementation, data management, capacity building and gender mainstreaming. She works as a senior staff in the role of monitoring, evaluation and research at eHealth Africa, an organization headquartered in Nigeria, focused on building stronger health systems through the design and implementation of data-driven solutions that respond to local needs and provide underserved communities with tools to lead healthier lives.

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Prof. Olivier Sparagano received his BSc and MSc from the University of Paris VII, France, his MRes from the University Blaise Pascal, France, and his PhD from the Institut Pasteur and the University Lyon I, France. Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he was the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Animal Health and Biotechnology at Coventry University, UK. Prior to this appointment, he was the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. Olivier is a Chartered Biologist, a Fellow of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (of which he was the President several times), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and an Associate Member of the Royal Society for Chemistry. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and over 400 conference abstracts. He has been working on animal diseases, zoonotic pathogens and vector-borne issues for over two decades.

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Professor Robert (Bob) Millar grew up in Zimbabwe and studied Zoology, Botany and Chemistry at the University of the former Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He then obtained a master’s degree in Biochemistry in London and a PhD in reproductive biology in Liverpool before moving into human biomedical research at the University of Cape Town where he became Professor ad hominem and directed four MRC Units. For twelve years he served as Director of the prestigious MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and in 2011 he joined the University of Pretoria to take up the Directorship of the Mammal Research Institute. He stepped aside from this position in 2016 to take up his current role as Director of the Centre for Neuroendocrinology, in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Prof Millar is also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, and is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Integrative Physiology at the University of Edinburgh and Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews. His research spans a wide spectrum including comparative reproductive biology and physiology, modular biology of receptor function, drug development and “first in man” clinical research. Professor Millar is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, not least the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship which is widely considered to be the premier award for research on the African continent. Recently, he was also recipient of the John F Herschel Medal, (the highest award of the Royal Society of South Africa) and the MRC South Africa Platinum Medal.

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Phu Nguyen holds a PhD in Biosciences Engineering with a strong academic research background in bacterial transcription regulation and protein sciences. Her journey in pharma has mainly involved projects in R&D and quality processes implementation. Currently, she is leading the development and implementation of the Continued Method Verification process for analytical monitoring of QC testing in GSK.

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Dr. Sun is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine at the University of South Florida (USF). He holds secondary appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry at USF, and USF Genomics. He received his PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Kiel, Germany, and his Master Degree in Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology from the Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He received his postdoctoral training in Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry at Brown University, USA. The research in his laboratory is focused on the pathogenesis of Clostridiodes difficile and development of novel therapeutics to prevent/treat C. difficile infection (CDI). He is leading a research team at USF to develop vaccines against CDI. He is a NIH Career Development Awardee. His research is supported by several NIH grants. He has been actively serving NIH study section panels including chairing the NIH study section panel. He serves as an Associate Editor for “Molecular Medicine”, a topic editor for “Frontiers in Microbiology”, and editorial boards for “Infection and Immunity” and “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”. He chaired Research Committee of College of Medicine at USF in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded "Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award" at USF. In 2019, he was awarded "Excellence in Innovation Award".

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Following a master’s degree in molecular biology and biochemistry and a PhD thesis in the field of young boys fertility preservation, Maxime Vermeulen was hired by Sciensano, which is the Belgian national public institute born from the fusion of the Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA) and the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP). As a member of the Development & Research group in the Quality of Vaccine and Blood Product laboratory, he is working on the development of a Luminex-based multiplex assay to monitor the consistency of antigen quantity and quality throughout the production process of DTaP vaccines. This project is part of the VAC2VAC consortium, which aims to demonstrate the feasibility of monitoring the consistency of the batch release controls through in vitro methods to reduce animal use.

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CARMEN TERESA is a Vet and she has master’s degree in science focused on Pharmacology at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her work focused on topic in pharmacology and recently in vaccine in veterinary. Actually she is a candidate at Doctor Program in Biomedical and Biological Sciences of Universidad del Rosario Colombia, her research focused in the study of response of the complex class II in swine against some zoonotic pathogen.

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Shahjahan Shaid (M) has been trained as biologist in the field of immunology, genetics, animal experiments and replacements alternatives like the MAT to the Rabbit pyrogen test at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His PhD at the University of Berlin, Germany and Robert Koch Institut focused on antibody design and diagnostic of highly infectious pathogens in BSL3 laboratories. Since 2013 he is committed to the development of methods for routine testing under GMP conditions within GSK Vaccines. In 2016 he took the lead of the GSK Vaccines 3R Program as well as their contribution to collaborative studies as Vac2Vac or BSPs.

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Dr. Hodge is a Senior Investigator and head of the Recombinant Vaccine Group in the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Hodge received his Ph.D. in Comparative and Experimental Medicine from the University of Tennessee, and his MBA from the George Washington University. He was awarded tenure in 2016. Dr. Hodge is active in the area of tumor immunity, and has made significant contributions to the design and development of novel recombinant vaccines and vaccine strategies for cancer immunotherapy including a) recombinant vectors to deliver tumor antigens, b) the use of costimulation to enhance antitumor T-cell responses, c) the combined use of vaccines with radiation, chemotherapy, and targeted small-molecule therapeutics. The concepts and therapeutics developed within the Recombinant Vaccine Group have been translated into many randomized multi-center trials at numerous Cancer Centers.

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Kathleen Hefferon received her PhD from the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and currently teaches microbiology at Cornell University. Kathleen has published multiple research papers, chapters and reviews, and has written three books. Kathleen is the Fulbright Canada Research Chair of Global Food Security and has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto over the past year. Her research interests include the use of biotechnology to promote global health.

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Halmuthur.M.Sampath Kumar, Medicinal Chemist and Immunologist, graduated from chemistry department Gulbarga University, India securing first rank and a gold medal in 1986, obtained his Ph.D degree in biological Chemistry(1995)from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. He continued research on various aspects of agrochemical and pharmaceutical technology development at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. . His team was instrumental in developing cost effective technology for several drugs and agrochemicals which are successfully commercialized in India and abroad. Dr. Kumar successfully completed collaborative projects with various reputed multinationals like P&G and Colgate Palmolive in the area of cosmeceuticals and oral care products. Apart frm medicinal chemistry, Dr. Kumar worked in the area of combinatorial Chemistry and development of new synthetic methods, organometallic chemistry, green chemistry and synthesis of complex carbogenic molecules. His work in the afore mentioned areas led to several publications in reputed international journals and his efforts in basic and applied areas of organic synthesis won him several awards and recognitions. As Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, he worked in Max Planck Institute for Molecular physiology at Dortmund in the year 2000-2002 on gene therapy and at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2019 to work in Tsogoeva’s lab on Hybrid drugs and tumor homing peptide conjugates of anticancer drugs. Dr. Kumar had been the chairman of the Department of Synthetic and Biological Chemistry(presently rechristened as Medicinal Chemistry) at IIIM-Jammu dedicated to medicinal Chemistry research. Currently Dr .Kumar is the nodal scientist for the Vaccine immunology programme at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, where his focus is on the development of novel vaccine and delivery vehicles, vaccine(Th1) adjuvants, designer small molecule immunomodulators based on natural product scaffolds.