International Conference and Exhibition on Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics August 24-26, 2015 West Drayton, London, UK

Margaret A Wheatley after a degree in Chemistry from Oxford University, UK, completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto and Postdoctoral studies at MIT, Cambridge MA, USA. She holds the John M. Reid chair of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. She has published more than 100 papers in areas of imaging, drug delivery and spinal cord repair.

Biomedical Endineering, Science and Health Systems

Born in 1940, graduated from the State Medical Institute in Lvov (Ukraina), took postgraduate course and thereafter received a PhD degree in Embryology in 1976. From 1966 till 1987 he was working at the Institute of Experimental Medicine RAMN (Saint-Petersburg) as a scientific collaborator at the Department of embryology and from 1980 in the Laboratory of biochemical genetics. From 1987 till the present time is the Chief of laboratory for prenatal diagnosis of inherited and inborn diseases at the Ott’s Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproduction. Mainly interested in genetic and cytogenetic aspects of early human development, gene testing of inherited predisposition to common diseases, personalized predictive medicine, gene therapy. During the period of 1995-2009 he was awarded by A.A.Bayev Prize, Honorary Prizes from Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, I.P.Pavlov Prize, S.N.Davidenkov Prize. V.S.Baranov – is a chief City Expert in Medical Genetics, Chief of Federal Center for prenatal diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, Chief of Federal Medical Genetic Center, WHO expert on human genetics, Member of HUGO and Human Variome Project Consortium. Member of editorial boards of scientific journals “Medical Genetics”, “Prenatal Diagnosis”, “Ecological Genetics”, “Balkan J.Medical Genetics” The author of 29 books (1 in English “Cytogenetics of Mammalian Embryonic Development” Oxford University Press 1987,356pp) and over 400 scientific papers.

Human Genetics, Gynecology, prenatal diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, Endocrinology

Martin Flückis the Professor for Muscle Plasticity located at the Balgrist Hospital of the University of Zurich. His research centers on the adaptive pathways governing skeletal muscle function with specific focus on an integrative omics approach. He has published over 70 articles in peer reviews journal (H-index>24) and has served as an Editorial Board Member of repute.

Muscle Plasticity

Sughrue is the current director of the comprehensive brain tumor center at the University of Oklahoma. He attended medical school at Columbia University before completing his neurosurgery residency at UCSF. He performs over 400 operations for brain tumors annually in addition to numerous active research efforts in brain tumor treatment. He has authored over 140 peer reviewed publications in addition to editing several text books.

Brain tumor

Chhabra is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut. His research is aimed at developing an effective immune based cancer therapy. He has published more than 15 research manuscripts in prominent journals, and has also received several awards at international cancer immunotherapy meetings. Besides his work on human melanoma antigen specific T cells, Dr. Chhabra is also working towards utilizing the human pluripotent stem cells [hPS, i.e. human embryonic stem cells (hES) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)] for developing patient specific cancer immunotherapy approaches through TCR engineering approach.

His research is aimed at developing an effective immune based cancer therapy.