Dr. Daisuke Onoshima

    Dr. Daisuke Onoshima is a Unit Leader of Institute of Innovation for Future Society at Nagoya University. He is also a member of ImPACT Research Center for Advanced Nanobiodevices at Nagoya University. Dr Onoshima received his Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Nagoya University. Following his postdoctoral research in Creation of Innovation Centers for Advanced Interdisciplinary Areas Program by Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology by Japan Cabinet Office, he joined Institute of Innovation for Future Society at Nagoya University and Center of Innovation Program by MEXT. His current research interests are in the areas of lab-on-a-chip technology for single molecules and cells detection. Specifically, Dr. Onoshima’s work aims towards addressing challenging problems associated with the performance of diagnostics for cancer and therapeutics for regenerative medicine. Some of Dr. Onoshima’s more current research has been focused on biodevice-integrated vehicles. Dr. Onoshima was recently awarded the New Chemical Technology Research Encouragement Award from Japan Association for Chemical Innovation (2015).

Topic of Keynote: Nanobiodevices for diagnostics, therapeutics, and future mobility

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Dr. Jeff Th. M. De Hosson

     Professor Jeff Th.M. DeHosson holds a PhD in Physics of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (with honors and highest distinction) and after his postdoctoral years in USA he was appointed in 1977 by the Crown to Professor in Applied Physics. His passion is to carry out innovative and pre-competitive research in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology with particular emphasis on: Nanostructured materials: nano-clusters, nano-foams, nano-object; Nanostructured composite coatings; high power lasers and Advances in Microscopy, in particular in-situ transmission and in-situ scanning electron microscopy applications in areas such as coating, transportation, communications, and data processing. He is elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (division physics), editor of 3 international journals, member of editorial boards of 12 journals and Elected Fellow of various foreign scientific societies, including TMS and ASM. He acts as Honorary Professor of Tsinghua Un -Beijing , USTBeijing and Port Elisabeth –SA. He holds several patents and received a number of prestigious international awards, including the European Materials Gold Medal in 2005 and the NanoSmat prize 2009. He published more than 1000 articles and supervised so far 74 PhD theses. (see www.rug.nl/staff/j.t.m.de.hosson/cv en http://materials-science.phys.rug.nl/)

Topic of Keynote: Nanoporous systems: Metallic muscles at work

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Dr. Vladimir Muzykantov

    Vladimir Muzykantov obtained his M.D. in Internal Medicine in 1980 from Moscow Medical School and Ph.D. (Biochemistry, 1985) from Russian National Cardiology Research Center, where he worked in 1980-1993. He joined University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Since early eighties, his career is dedicated to research, educational and translational efforts in the area of vascular targeting of drug carriers, biotherapeutics and imaging probes. He described many new findings in the areas of novel molecular targets for drug delivery and nanocarriers targeted to vascular endothelium including first reports on induced endocytosis of nanocarriers anchored to normally non-internalized cellular receptors, targeted intracellular delivery of semi-permeable nanocarriers encapsulating antioxidant enzymes, paradoxical enhancement of targeting by collaborating antibodies and enhancement of targeting selectivity by controlled reduction on nanocarrier avidity. Among other findings, he devised a paradigm-shifting strategy and biotechnology platform for new class of recombinant mutant protein pro-drugs using blood cells as natural carriers for targeted drug delivery. He has published ~170 peer reviewed papers on drug delivery in the leading journals including Nature Biotechnology, PNAS, Blood and ACS Nano and edited a book "Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting" (Kluwer Academic Press, 2003). Honors include the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award and Bugher Stroke Award, Chairing Transatlantic Conference on Imaging Target Molecular Signatures in Lungs (Luzerne, 2009) and the Gordon Conference on Drug Carriers (2012), Dr. Jane Glick's Graduate Teaching Award (2013).

Topic of Keynote: Pulmonary Nanomedicine: Challenges and Opportunities

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Dr. Rajasekhar Bala

    Prof. Balasubramanian (Bala) has been a faculty member at the National University of Singapore since 1996. He is currently an Associate Professor (with tenure) and Deputy Head (Special Projects) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining NUS, he worked at the New York State Department of Health and at Brookhaven National Research Laboratory, USA as a scientist. Prof. Bala and his research group have been investigating a wide range of environmental issues, from urban air pollution to health risk assessment. He has published over 170 research articles in high impact international journals in diverse environmental areas including several scholarly review articles. He has led several multi-national, multi-disciplinary research projects successfully over the years with funds from the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the British Council, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance (SDWA), and the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore. He is currently the Editor of “Aerosol and Air Quality Research” and an Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Environmental Science (Air Pollution) (The Nature Publishing Group). In recognition of his excellence in research and teaching, Prof. Bala has received a number of research and educator awards including Alan Berman Research Publication Award from the US Department of the Navy in 2014.

Topic of Keynote: Urban Air Pollution: Causes, Impacts and Mitigation Strategies

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Dr. Fabiana Corami

    Dr. Fabiana Corami studied Biology at the University La Sapienza in Roma, Italy, where she obtained a Master Degree in 1995, working on the development of enzymatic assays and their ecological application in transitional environments. In 2002 she received the PhD in Environmental Sciences, at the University of Ca’ Foscari in Venezia, Italy, working on the speciation of trace elements in the waters of pristine environments (Antarctic ocean) and in coastal and lagoon waters, subject to different environmental impacts. Her principal research fields are: Ecology of aquatic environments, Speciation of Trace Elements, Geospeciation of Trace Elements, Stress Biomarkers assays via hyphenated techniques, Environmental friendly Remediaton Techniques. She has been the PI and the coordinator of experimental activities in several projects. Among the project she has worked, she and her coworkers have adapted and implemented a environmental- friendly remediation technology for the recovery of dredged and highly polluted sediments. At present, she is a research fellow, working at DAIS (Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics) University Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy, and at CNR-IDPA (Institute of the Dynamics of Environmental Processes), Venezia, Italy.

Topic of Keynote: Polluted Yesterday, Remediated Tomorrow

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Dr. Akira Kondo

    Graduated from Environmental Engineering Master Course of Osaka University on March 1984 Worked at Matsushita Electric Industry from April 1984 Worked at Osaka University as an assistant professor from January 1989 Worked at Osaka University as an associate professor from October 2001 Worked at Osaka University as a professor from November 2011
    My major researches Themes are the development of air quality / meteorological model, the development of water quality / hydrology model, the development of multimedia model, and the mitigation of heat island phenomena in urban areas. Also I tackle about the environmental management in the developing countries such as Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand and etc.

Topic of Keynote: Development of One-Box Type and Distributed Type Multimedia Model for Heavy Metals

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Dr. William J. Federspiel

    Dr. William J. Federspiel received his PhD in 1983 and currently is the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment in Critical Care Medicine. He is a Co-Founder of Alung Technologies, a Pittsburgh based medical device company that develops respiratory assist systems and currently serves as Head of the Scientific Advisory Board for Alung. Dr. Federspiel is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). He has over 100 research publications and book chapters and holds numerous patents related to devices and methods for respiratory assist. He directs research in the Medical Devices Laboratory, a core laboratory of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His laboratory actively develops novel artificial lung devices for respiratory assist, as well as blood treatment devices for sepsis and other inflammatory disorders.

Topic of Keynote: Respiratory Support of the Failing Lung: From Respiratory Dialysis to Wearable Artificial Lungs

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Dr. Chwee Teck Lim

    Prof Lim is a Provost’s Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include mechanobiology of human diseases and the development of microfluidic biochips for disease detection and diagnosis. Prof Lim has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed papers (including 35 invited/review articles), 26 book chapters and delivered more than 240 invited talks. He has also co-founded one incubator and four startups which are commercializing technologies developed in his lab. Prof Lim has won more than 30 research awards and honors including the University’s Outstanding Researcher Award and Outstanding Innovator Award in 2014, the Credit Suisse Technopreneur of the Year Award, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold) in 2012, President's Technology Award in 2011 and the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award in 2010. His research was cited by the MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2006 that will "have a significant impact on business, medicine or culture".

Topic of Keynote: Microfluidics Technology for Cancer Diagnosis & Personalized Treatment

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Dr. Sergey B. Zotchev

    Sergey B. Zotchev's major field of expertise is molecular genetics of actinomycete bacteria, with focus on genetics and biochemistry of antibiotic biosynthesis. He obtained his PhD at the Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (Moscow, Russia) in 1991. After several years of postdoctoral studies in Germany (University of Osnabrück), USA (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Sweden (Karolinska Institute), Sergey B. Zotchev took up an appointment as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway). Since 2005, Sergey B. Zotchev is a full Professor at the same Department. His research interests have expanded to bioprospecting for new antimicrobial and antitumor compounds, biosynthetic engineering, and comparative genomics. Recently, after spending a sabbatical year at the UC Berkeley (USA) at the group of Jay D. Keasling, he developed a keen interest in synthetic biology, which he now applies to engineer actinomycete bacteria for production of bioactive molecules.

Topic of Keynote: Synthetic Biology of Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria for Drug Discovery and Development

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