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Dr. Jonathan Kipnis is a Principal Investigator and the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University, where he also serves as a Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery, and Director of the Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG) Center ...

Dr. Giuseppe Danilo Norata is a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Excellence of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. He graduated in Pharmacy in 1996 and obtained his PhD in Experimental Medicine from the University of Siena in 2002. From ...

Dr. Benjamin L. Prosser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he serves as Deputy Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute (PMI) and Director del Center for Epilepsy and ...

Prof. Daniel Ketelhuth is a leading researcher in cardiovascular disease (CVD). A pioneer in the field of immunometabolism, his research has shown that the dysregulation of tryptophan metabolism via the kynurenine pathway and other metabolic alterations in immune cells play a significant role in modulating ...

Prof. Yasuyuki Fujita, PhD, from Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Medicine, specializes in how normal epithelial cells eliminate cancer cells through competition. He first conceived this model as a student and later became the first to demonstrate it for normal vs. cancerous epithelial cells in Nature Cell Biology (Hogan et al., 2009). Born in Osaka, he studied medicine at Kyoto ...

Claudia Monaco trained as a cardiologist and PhD with Professor Attilio Maseri at the Catholic University of Rome, Italy, before moving to the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London to work with Professor Marc Feldmann. She moved to the University of Oxford in 2011, where she became ...

Dr Gabriel Núñez Ollero holds a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Seville, Spain. Between 1979 and 1984 he undertook post-doctoral training as a researcher at the University of Texas Medical Center, Dallas. Later, between 1985 and 1990, he completed his clinical residency with the Department of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology at Washington University ...

Professor Ajay Shah is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiology. He also holds the title of James Black Professor ...

Isabel Gonçalves is a professor and senior consultant at the University of Lun (Sweden). Her research focuses on cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She is the principal investigator in EXODIAB (Excellence in Diabetes Research in Sweden), leads a team at Cardiovascular Research - Translational Studies, ...

Prof. Erik Biessen graduated in Biophysical Chemistry at Groningen University, Netherlands (1985). He joined the Division of Biopharmaceutics of Leiden University as a post-doctoral fellow and was selected for the prestigious Netherlands Heart Foundation (NHF) funded Molecular Cardiology Program ...

Luis A. Moreno Aznar, Doctor in Medicine and Surgery with a diploma in Human Nutrition and Public and Community Health and has been a researcher for 43 years. For 6 years, he worked in the Paediatrics Department at Lille University Hospital (France) and in the Laboratory of Inherited Metabolic Disorders at ...

Dr Pascual Sánchez-Juan is Scientific Director of the CIEN Foundation (Centre for Research on Neurological Diseases) dependent on the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) Dr Sánchez-Juan is an expert in dementia research and has headed the Cognitive Deterioration Unit of Santander’s Marqués de Valdecilla ...