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Dr. Bijan Ghaleh

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INSERM U 955 Equipe 03, Faculté de Médecine, Creteil Medical School and Veterinary School of Alfort, 94000 Créteil, France
Interests: cardiovascular pharmacology; coronary circulation; myocardial ischemia and infarction; heart failure
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Dr. Paula A. C. Gomes

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LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, P-4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: anti-infective agents; antimicrobial peptides; antiparasitic drugs; drug rescuing and repurposing; peptide-grafted materials; peptide synthesis
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Prof. Dr. Gustavo González-Gaitano

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1. Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Universidad de Navarra, 31080 Pamplona, Spain
2. SUMBET (Supramolecular Materials for Biomedical and Environmental Technologies), Universidad de Navarra, C/ Irunlarrea 1, 31080 Pamplona, Spain
3. BIOMA (Instituto de Biodiversidad y Medioambiente), Universidad de Navarra, C/ Irunlarrea 1, 31080 Pamplona, Spain
Interests: supramolecular chemistry; cyclodextrins; colloids; polymers; hydrogels; nanocomposites; scattering methods
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Prof. Dr. Diego Guidolin

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Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Padua University, Padua, Italy
Interests: G protein-coupled receptors; receptor-receptor interactions; non-synaptic forms of intercellular communication in the nervous system; neurobiology and neuroanatomy; biology and pharmacology of hyaluronic acid; quantitative methods in microscopic anatomy with particular reference to image analysis methods
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Prof. Dr. Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina

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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: synthesis and biological studies on anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agents, on inhibitors of enzymes implicated in the inflammation and in the coagulation process in general; correlation of inflammation with cancer; neurodegeneration; antioxidant activity; theoretical and experimental calculation of physicochemical parameters implicated in biological response; use of computational chemistry in drug design as well as bioactive compounds of natural origin, e.g., essential oils
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Prof. Dr. Sang-Bae Han

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College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, 194-21, Osongsaemgmyeong-1, Heungdeok, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28160, Republic of Korea
Interests: mesenchymal stem cells; natural killer cells; dendritic cells; cytokine-induced killer cells; cell therapy; immunopharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Yong-Seok Heo

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Department of Chemistry, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
Interests: therapeutic antibody; cancer immunotherapy; antibody engineering; structure and mechanism of antibody drugs; protein structure
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Dr. Martin Hohenegger

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Institut of Pharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Interests: cancer metabolism; amino acid signalling; signal transduction; G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); ion channels; calcium-signalling; ryanodine receptor calcium release channels; melanoma; neuroblastoma; rhabdomyosarcoma; skeletal and cardiac muscle

Prof. Dr. Guan-Jhong Huang

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Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, No. 91, Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
Interests: metabolic disorders; cancer; inflammation; oxidative stress; natural compounds; molecular signaling
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Dr. Longshuang Huang

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School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: lung disease; Inflammation; regeneration; Infection
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Prof. Dr. Andrea Huwiler

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Institute of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Inselspital, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: sphingolipid signaling; prostaglandins; chronic inflammatory kidney diseases
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Dr. Dong Soon Im

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Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: intercellular lipid mediator; G protein-coupled receptor; immunometabolism; sphingosine 1-phosphate; lysophosphatidic acid; omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid; DHA; EPA; inflammation; resolution
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Dr. Tomoaki Ishigami

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Department of Medical Science and Cardio-Renal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Fukuura 3-9, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan
Interests: hypertension; salt sensitivity; tubular transport; epithelial sodium channels; ubiquitination; Nedd4-2 and atherosclerosis
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Dr. Kenneth A. Jacobson

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Molecular Recognition Section, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: chemical biology; medicinal chemistry; receptor pharmacology; structural biology

Dr. Dominik Jańczewski

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Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: polycations; ionenes; antimicrobial polymers; post polymerization modification (PPM); antifouling materials and surfaces

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Junger

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1. Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
2. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Interests: ieukocyte function; chemotaxis; purinergic signaling; inflammation; trauma; sepsis; viral and bacterial infections

Prof. Dr. Nam Deuk Kim

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Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Interests: cancer; cell death; cell cycle regulation; apoptosis; autophagy; anticancer drug development; chemoprevention; breast cancer; colon cancer; gastric cancer; hepatocellular carcinoma; AOM-DSS model; bile acid; hypoxia; stem cell; differentiation; nutraceuticals; myodifferentiation; sarcopenia
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Dr. Ari-Pekka Koivisto

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Pain Therapy Area, Orion Pharma, 20360 Turku, Finland
Interests: TRPA1; TRP ion channels; drug discovery; GPCR-ion channel interaction; chronic pain; neuropathic and osteoarthritis pain
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Prof. Dr. George J. Kontoghiorghes

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Postgraduate Research Institute of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine, CY-3021 Limassol, Cyprus
Interests: chelation therapy; chelation in medicine; chelating drugs; iron chelating drugs in thalassaemia and other diseases of iron overload or imbalance; chelator antioxidants in free radical pathology; chelators and antioxidants in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases; chelating drug design, development and clinical use
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Prof. Dr. Yasusei Kudo

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Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8504, Japan
Interests: head and neck cancer; cell cycle; ubiquitin-proteasome pathway; invasion; metastasis; oral pathology
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Prof. Dr. Andrzej Kutner

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Department of Drug Chemistry, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, The Medical University of Warsaw, 1 Stefana Banacha, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; structure-activity relationships; design and synthesis of biologically active compounds; anticancer agents; crystal structure of biomolecules and ligand-receptor interactions, vitamin D analogs, pharmaceutical syntheses
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Prof. Dr. Bernard Le Foll

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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Translational Addiction Research Laboratory, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada
Interests: the effect of cannabidiol in brain disorders
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Prof. Dr. Seong-Wook Lee

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Department of Bioconvergence Engineering, Research Institute of Advanced Omics, Dankook University, Yongin 16890, Republic of Korea
Interests: RNA-based therapeutics and diagnostics; gene therapy; cancer; genetic disease; immune disorder; virus, microRNAs; ribozyme; aptamer; genome editing
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Prof. Dr. Antonio Lucacchini

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VIA PASCOLI, 4F, Università di Pisa, 55042 Pisa, Italy
Interests: proteomics; enzyme; biomarkers; thyroid; diabetes; biochemistry

Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi

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Department of Bioengineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: biomaterials; drug delivery; tissue engineering; microfluidics; immunoengineering; cancer immunotherapy

Dr. Alma Martelli

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: in vitro cell culture; diabetes; hypertension; cardiovascular; pharmacy; pharmaceutics and pharmaceutics
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Dr. Stefano Marullo

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Institut Cochin, Université de Paris, INSERM, CNRS, Paris, France
Interests: cell trafficking; regulation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); the organization of molecular scaffolds; the role of GPCRs in host-pathogen interactions; the mechanism of GPCRs activation by mechanical forces

Prof. Dr. Sebastiano Mercadante

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Main Regional Center for Pain Relief & Supportive Care, La Maddalena Cancer Center, 90100 Palermo, Italy
Interests: cancer pain; supportive care; symptom management; palliative care
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Dr. Mario Milani

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CNR-Biophysics Institute, Rome, Italy
Interests: protein structure; X-ray crystallography; protein inhibition; biophysics; biochemistry; structure-based drug design; protein dynamics; small angle X-ray scattering; rare diseases; viral proteins

Dr. Laura Musazzi

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Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy
Interests: neurobiology of acute and chronic stress in animal models; mechanism of action of rapid-acting antidepressants; epigenetics of stress and antidepressant activity
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