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Prof. Dr. Mark Slevin

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1. Centre for Advanced Medical and Pharmaceutical Research, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș, 540142 Târgu Mureș, Romania
2. The School of Life Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5QA, UK
Interests: C-Reactive protein; stem cell; drug delivery; neurodegenerative disease; stroke; autoimmune disease
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Prof. Dr. Andrzej Slominski

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Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Interests: dermatopathology; skin pigmentation; neuroendocrinology of the skin; photobiology; melanoma; steroidogenesis; vitamin D; sterols; melatonin; stress response mechanisms
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Dr. Andrei Smertenko

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Institute of Biological Chemistry, Plant Sciences Building, Room 281, Washington State University, Washington, WA, USA
Interests: drought; heat; organelles; peroxisomes; signaling; cytoskeleton; cytokinesis
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Dr. Vytautas Smirnovas

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Institute of Biothechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: protein misfolding; protein aggregation; amyloid; prion; proteinaceous infectivity
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Prof. Dr. Koji Sode

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Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Interests: protein engineering; enzyme engineering; biosensors; biosensing; biomedical engineering; biomolecular engineering
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Prof. Dr. Manoocher Soleimani

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1. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
2. Research Services, Raymond J. Murphy Veterans Health Care Center, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
Interests: kidney; nephrology; acute kidney injury; hypertension; acid base and electrolyte transport; renal tubular acidosis; metabolic alkalosis; cloning and characterization of acid base transporters
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Dr. Dong Ju Son

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Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
Interests: cardiovascular disease; atherosclerosis; vascular endothelial inflammation; blood flow shear stress; microRNA
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Prof. Dr. Aiping Song

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Key Laboratory of Landscaping, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: ornamental plants; bioinformatics; biotechnology; gene editing
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Prof. Dr. Chang-Hwa Song

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Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Republic of Korea
Interests: host-pathogen interaction; tuberculosis; mycobacterium; inflammation; apoptosis; endoplasmic reticulum stress; ER stress; reactive oxygen species; ROS

Dr. Edgar Soria-Gomez

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Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48940 Leioa, Spain
Interests: learning and memory; emotions; feeding behavior; olfaction; brain circuits; cannabinoid research
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Prof. Dr. Valeria Sorrenti

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Department of Drug Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: the HO-1/HO-2 system and DDAH/NOS pathway in different biological systems and physiopathological conditions; evaluation of the biological activity of natural and newly synthesized molecules capable of interfering with the activity of various enzymes such as dihydrofolate reductase, nitric oxide synthetase (nNOS, eNOS, iNOS), heme oxygenase (HO-1, HO-2); identification of the biochemical mechanisms involved in the beneficial effect of nutraceuticals
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Dr. Magdalena Sowa-Kućma

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Department of Human Physiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Kopisto 2a, 35-310 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: antidepressants; glutamte receptors; Epigenetic; depression
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Prof. Dr. Alejandro Speck-Planche

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LAQV@REQUIMTE/Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: multi-target drug discovery; chemoinformatics; QSAR-based approaches; virtual screening; multi-scale de novo drug design; machine learning
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Dr. Rosanna Squitti

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Dipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio, Sezione Ricerca e Sviluppo, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina–Gemelli Isola, Via di Ponte Quattro Capi 39, 00186 Roma, Italy
Interests: neurodegenerative disorders; colorectal cancer; essential metals; Alzheimer’s disease; psychiatric disorders; copper; iron; zinc
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Prof. Dr. Sanjay K. Srivastava

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Department of Immunotherapeutics and Biotechnology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 1718 Pine Street, Abilene, TX 79601, USA
Interests: development of phytochemicals for cancer prevention and therapeutics; targeting STAT-3, NF-kB, HER2, MCL-1, AKT/FOXO, GLI1/2, and related signaling pathways with agents such as capsaicin, piperlongumine, penfluridol, isothiocyanates, diindolylmethane, panabinostat, cucurbitacin B, and deguelin in pancreatic, ovarian, breast, melanoma, and brain cancer; drug repurposing
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Dr. Maria G. Stathopoulou

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INSERM U1065, C3M, Côte d’Azur University, 06204 Nice, France
Interests: epigenetics; non-coding RNAs; genome-wide association study; GWAS; EWAS; genetic variability
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Prof. Dr. Michael Stear

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Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia
Interests: genetic variation in immunity to nematodes; selective breeding for disease resistance; host–parasite interactions; immunomodulation
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Prof. Dr. Carla Stecco

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Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Anatomy, University of Padova, Via Gabelli 65, 35127 Padova, Italy
Interests: fascial anatomy; histology
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Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Stefano

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Department of Pharmacy, University G. d’Annunzio, Via dei Vestini, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: drug delivery systems; CNS drug delivery; neurodegenerative disorders
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Dr. Azzurra Stefanucci

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Department of Pharmacy, "G. d'Annunzio" University, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: peptides; plants; extracts; nutraceuticals; food; health; analysis
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Prof. Dr. Veronika Stoka

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Structural Biology, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: aging; neurodegeneration; neurodegenerative diseases; cysteine cathepsins; cystatins
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Dr. Carmine Stolfi

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Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
Interests: colorectal cancer; immunotherapy; inflammatory bowel diseases; anti-cancer drugs
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Dr. Efstratios Stratikos

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Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Zografou, Greece
Interests: aminopeptidases; enzymes; antigen presentation; adaptive immunity; cancer; inflammation; inhibitors; drug-design
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Prof. Dr. Jerome F. Strauss, III

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: reproductive medicine; ovarian function; steroidogenesis; polycystic ovary syndrome; preterm birth; preeclampsia; vaginal microbiome; sperm motility
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Dr. Dimitrios J. Stravopodis

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Section of Cell Biology & Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Panepistimiopolis, Zografou, 15701 Athens, Greece
Interests: development; cancer; chemotherapy; metastasis; programmed cell death; metabolism; Drosophila aging; brain signaling; proteasome
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Dr. Pavel Strnad

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Medical Clinic III, Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Interests: internal medicine; liver diseases; liver cirrhosis; gastroenterology; chronic hepatitis C
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Dr. Sergei A. Subbotin

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California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA
Interests: nematology; molecular systematics; phylogenetics; molecular diagnostics; phylogeography; phylogenomics
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Prof. Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya

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College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Interests: stem cell; Alzheimer’s disease; neurodegenerative diseases; down syndrome; regeneration therapy; cancer stem cell; exosome
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Dr. Yuki Sugiura

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Health and Medical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1, Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0045, Japan
Interests: biomineralization; biomaterial; bio-sensing; medical devices
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Prof. Dr. Manickam Sugumaran

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Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Interests: enzymology; post translational modifications; aromatic metabolism; phenolic biochemistry; reactions of quinonoid compounds; invertebrate immunity; insect cuticular sclerotization; phenoloxidase; quinone isomerases; oxidative browning; melanin biosynthesis; catecholic antibiotics
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