6^th International Conference on Biomarkers & Clinical Research September 01-02, 2015 Toronto, Canada

Claudio Nicolini was born in Udine, Italy. He received the doctoral degree in physics from the University of Padua, in 1967. After serving as Adjunct Professor at the University of Bari, he moved for 17 years to the United States, of which he became citizen since 1974, and was originally at Brown University, MIT, and BNL. He then moved to Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, where after a period of intensive training and research in pathology he became Associate Professor of Pathology and then Professor and Chairman of the Biophysics in 1976. In 1985, he was called as “eminent scientist” to the Chair of Biophysics of the University of Genoa, in Italy until 2012, where he was successively Director of Biophysics Institute, DISTBIMO and CIRSDNNOB. From 1993 until now is Life President of the Fondazione ELBA Nicolini and of the Nanoworld Institute. On 2008 has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and on 2010 Honoris Causa Professor of Biophysics and Nanobiotechnology at Moscow State University. He was Chief Editor of Cell Biophysics (USA), Science and Technology Advisor to Italian Prime Minister Craxi, Member of the National Science and Technology Council upon Parliament election, Scientific Director Industrial Consortium CIREF, Founder Technobiochip; President Polo National Bioelectronics, President Scientific Technological Park of Elba Island. He received several awards and prizes and has authored more than 480 publications in international scientific journals (SCI), 35 patents (WPI), 28 books and Series Editor in Bioelectronics (Plenum) and Nanobiotechnology (Pan Stanford). His main scientific activities concerned cancer research, biophysics and nanotechnology, pioneering world-wide chromatin structure-function, bioelectronics and nanobiotechnology.

Cancer research, Biophysics and Nanotechnology, pioneering world-wide chromatin structure-function, Bioelectronics and Nanobiotechnology.

Dr. Alain Moreau is Full Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Medicine at the Universite de Montreal. He is the Director of Research and Chief Scientific Officer of Sainte-Justine University Hospital.Dr. Moreau received his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the Universite de Montreal in 1993. He did a first postdoctoral training at the Protein Engineering Center of University of Liege, Belgium (1992-1993), followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal affiliated with McGill University (1993-1997). Dr. Moreau is an internationally recognized expert on molecular genetics of pediatric scoliosis and osteoarthritis. His discoveries led to multiple peer-reviewed papers, international conferences as guest speaker, several awards as well as 32 patents issued.

Protein engineering, Molecular genetics, Biomarkers

Chee Gee See is the Director of Personalised Medicine at Proteome Sciences, a company providing high end mass-spectrometry based biomarker discovery and clinical utility tools, uniquely positioned to engage with pharma partners in our quest for personalised medicines. CheeGee was previously the clinical Biomarker and Experimental Medicine Leader at Roche for 5 years. He was the BEML for the Phase III pivotal TOGA study where Herceptin was trialled for the new indication of gastric cancer. He was also a BEML for CVD, CNS and immunology so his range and awareness of disease areas and their clinical development challenges is both deep and broad. CheeGee also spent 11 years at GSK where he was a genetics expert covering 3 key therapeutic areas in preclinical research within Genetics Research Europe. Prior to industry, CheeGee spent 6 years in post-doctoral academia at the University of Birmingham and University College London, most notably in the Human Genome Mapping Project. CheeGee also has dual specialist expertise as a consultant in regulatory affairs and value-based drug pricing, reimbursement and market access. CheeGee looks forward to engaging with like-minded professionals during this conference.

Personalised Medicine, biomarkers, genetics

B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from Allahabad University and Ph.D. from Gujarat University. Areas of Specialization: Life Sciences, Radiation Biology, Biotechnology, Biophysics and chemistry. Research Guide for Ph.D. students in many Universities of India. Successfully guided 41 Ph.D. students. Presently guiding 08 students. Published more than 280 research papers and proceeding papers in National and International Journals. Delivered more than 300 invited talks in Symposia and Conferences. Currently the Vice Chancellor of Nehru Gram Bharati University, Allahabad, India. Served as Head, Radiation Biology and Health Science Division and Senior Scientific Officer of Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Department of Atomic Energy, and Government of India. Chairman, Standing Selection Committee, Member, Trombay Scientific Council, BARC, Member, Health, Safety & Biomedical Group Board, Member, Committee of Atomic Energy Commission on Health and Environment Aspects of Uranium Mining at Jaduguda, Member, Core Expert Group on Chemical Disaster and Nuclear Disaster Management of National Disaster Management Authotrity of India (NDMA). Served as Chancellor's Nominee in Selection Committees of Padmashri Dr. D.Y. Patil Deemed University; Mumbai and West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata and served as Expert on Selection Committees of IITs and several Universities in India.

Radiation Research, Biomarkers, Biophysics, Biotechnology

Leticia Cano identified a native citrullinated autoantigen for rheumatoid arthritis for her PhD dissertation. She did her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Hank Fales at the National Institutes of Health, where she identified candidate biomarkers for Dermatomyositis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. As founder and president of Biomarker Profiles Corporation, she is interested in developing methods to increase the speed of biomarker discovery.

Biomarkers

Pavel Vodicka graduated at the Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague and in 1986 obtained PhD in biochemistry. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Finnish Inst. Occupat. Health, Helsinki, Finland (1987-1990) and as visiting scientist at Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden (1990-1993). Since 2002 he heads the Dept. Molec. Biol. Cancer, Inst. Exper. Medicine, Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Republic. Pavel Vodicka has published more than 130 (total IF 552.4, 2650 citations a HI 31) articles. Since 2004, his main research topics are focused on the DNA and chromosomal damage and DNA repair functional tests in humans and on transient biomarkers in the onset of gastrointestinal cancers. In 2012 he edited the Special Issue in Mutagenesis http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2.toc), entitled Colorectal Cancer-Current Insights into Susceptibility.

Biochemistry, Molecular biology, biomarkers, cancer biology

Sergey Suchkov graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University and was awarded with MD. In 1985, Suchkov obtained his Ph.D. He is the PhD student of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy and Institute of Medical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. In 2001, Suchkov finished the PostDoc Research Fellowship Program and maintained his Doctor Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. From 1987 through 1989, Dr. Suchkov was a senior Researcher, Lab of Developmental Immunology, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences to deal to developmental immunology. From 1989 through 1995, Dr. Suchkov was being a Head of the Lab of Clinical Immunology and Immunobiotechnology, Helmholtz Eye Research Institute in Moscow. From 1995 through 2004, Dr. Suchkov was being a Chairman of the Department for Clinical Immunology, Moscow Clinical Research Institute (MONIKI) and the Immunologist-in-Chief of the Moscow Regional Ministry of Health. At present, Dr Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD, is Professor in Immunology, Department of Pathology, School for Pharmacy, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Dean of the Department (Faculty) of The PPPM Development, and the First Vice-President of the University of World Business, Politics and Law and Secretary General, United Cultural Convention (UCC), Cambridge, UK.

Enzymology, biomarkers, cardiology, Immunology

Gabriella Baio studied Medicine and Surgery at University of Pisa and she obtained Radiology specialization at University of Genoa in 2007. Since 2008, she works as Radiologist at IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino-IST-National Cancer Institute, in Genoa. Dott. Baio research activities, cover clinical and preclinical molecular imaging by Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging applied to oncology, vascular and neuroscience. Her current research consist in the characterization of breast cancer in animal model, in order to validate new contrast agents as potential biomarkers for early diagnosis and drug delivery. She is invited speaker to national and international conferences and an active member of the European Society of Molecular Imaging (ESMI). She has been abstract reviewer for the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2011 and 2012.

Radiology

Youhe Gao Professor Beijing Normal University. He received his MD from Peking Union Medical College, his Ph.D from University of Connecticut and postdoctoral training from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School. He was the professor of Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/ Peking Union Medical College from 2001-2014. His research interests include biomarker discovery in urine proteome, protein interaction and related bioinformatics

Biomarker discovery in urine proteome, Protein interaction and related bioinformatics