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John D. Doherty(DABT 1982-2017) received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and did postdoctoral work in pharmacology at Yale and Kyoto University. He is currently an independent toxicologist with a specialty in neurotoxicology retired from the USEPA Office of Pesticide programs where he was responsible for evaluating the toxicity databases for pesticides. He has published papers on the mechanism of the pesticides DDT and pyrethroids (interaction with nerve physiology including transmitter release); organotins (as endocrine disruptors); phencyclidine and triadimefon (as a non-amphetamine dopaminergic agents); lead (interaction with DHA); and gamma-hydroxybutyrate (natural occurrence and metabolism in brain). His most current interest concerns the utilization of environmental epidemiology studies in the risk characterization of chemicals

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Biography

Dr. Stelvio Bandiera completed an honours bachelor of science in chemistry and biology at the University of Waterloo. He received a master of science degree in biochemistry from Dalhousie University and a doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Guelph. He then undertook postdoctoral studies at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in New Jersey. Dr. Bandiera joined the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC in 1986. Teaching areas of interest include chemical and biochemical aspects of drug metabolism; medicinal chemistry, including structure-activity relationships of various classes of drugs; and biochemical aspects of toxicology

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Dr Madhuri Gupta is currently working as a Scientist in Dept. of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. Presently she is performing her dutiesat National Poison Information Centre (AIIMS) as a Scientist In-charge. In her academic career she has done M.Sc. (Chemistry), M.A.(Sociology), B.Ed., Ph.D. (Chemistry). In her Professional career, Dr Madhuri Gupta worked at Dept. of Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, DNS College of Engineering&Technology, Amroha, U.P., Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, Delhi, as a teacher, researcher& also in patient care. She is a member of many Scientific Societies and have26 published papers in national and international journals. She is also a member of National Editorial Advisory Board of "Journal of Forensic and Toxicology". Her field of interest is in research in medical product development based on nano technology, toxicity evaluation of heavy metals and handling innovative projects

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Professor Dr. Mohammad Kamil, M.Sc.; M.Phil.; Ph.D.; D.Sc.; Chartered Chemist(U.K.) and Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (London), has worked in various capacities. As In-charge -Drug Standardization lab. CCRUM, Ministry of Health -India, Associate Professor at Hamdard University, India; Professor & Head Department of Pharmacognostic Science, Zayed Complex for Herbal Research & Traditional. Medicine, Ministry of Health, UAE (1996-2010); Head TCAM Research at Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (2010-2020). Presently working as Director General, Lotus Holistic Healthcare Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE since 2021. He is heading the Scientific Committee for the Sheikh Zayed International TCAM Awards. Actively engaged in research on Traditional Medicine, Medicinal Plants, since 1971. Research work conducted and guided research in the following fields: Chemistry of Natural Products; Quality control studies and standardization of herbal plants and products; Physicochemical & and pharmacognostic standards of single herbal medicine and composite herbal formulations; Screening of medicinal plants for phytomedicines; Medicinal chemistry; Phytochemical studies – Extraction, isolation, and characterization of chemical constituents using modern analytical techniques; Research in Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines; Adulteration of conventional medicines in herbal formulations for the safety of public health; Substantially contributed to Drug Research and standardized chemically about 400 Phyto pharmaceutical herbal preparations besides standardizing quite a huge number (over 600)of single herbal medicines; Isolated quite a large number of NOVEL compounds from medicinal plants and a completely New SERIES of bioflavonoids along with its synthesis for the first time in the world which appeared in peer-reviewed journals J.C.S (London), Chemistry & Industry (London). Recipient of many honours and awards viz: -Young Scientist’s Award, India(1998); Common Wealth Award-London(1992); Convention Award of Chemical Society-India(1993); Hakim Ajmal Khan Shield (CCRUM-Govt. of India at Grant Medical College (1992); Academic Exchange Fellowship from Association of Common Wealth Universities –London(1993); Acted as an expert on the panel of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), India,2000. ; Man of the year 2002, ABI, USA; Secretary International Centre of Technical Cooperation, Commission of Pharmaceutical Chemistry – India,1986-89; Selected for inclusion of Biographical-note in Indo-European “Who’s Who”, 1994; Selected for inclusion of research work in “Contributions of Indian Muslims in Plants Sciences”,1999. Hakim Ajmal Khan Global Award in Unani Medicine, India(2014); Focal Point of WHO Collaborative Sheikh Zayed Research Centre, Abu Dhabi for 8 consequent years(2007- 2014); Honorary Trustee of International Unani Forum (October 2022 to March 2025); Honorary member of the International Association for Unani Medicine (IAUM), Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Karachi; Conferred upon Aqs-e-Mohar -Nabwi; Hamdard University Karachi,19th Dec2022; Member, Traditional Complementary Integrative Healthcare(TCIH)2022-WHO - (Contd.); Member Editorial Board of the Unani Pharmacopoeia of the Unani Medicine, Pakistan(2022-contd.); Member, Editorial Board of UNANIAN; Member Editorial Board -HippocraticJournal of Unani Medicine(HJUM)Published by CCRUM, Ministry of Ayush, India; Reviewer and Member, Editorial Board of Arabian Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (AJMAP); Member of QUAVE Research & Publications(2023-contd).Recipient of Sheikh Zayed International Award in Traditional Herbal Research (2020). Produced 20 Ph. D. and M.Phil. students besides guiding a huge number of M. Sc. dissertations and 40 Interns. More than 700 research papers in reputed journals and conferences of international repute; authored seven books and many chapters in different books, besides associated with the publication of many books and two volumes of Encyclopedias of Medicinal Plants(UAE). His name is cited for significant Research at more than 7000 places in International books, viz, Advance in Research (Chapman and Hall, London, New York,1999); Dictionary of Natural Products- (Chapman and Hall, London, New York); Glimpses in plant research Vol. XI, (Today and Tomorrow Publication) India; Flavonoids -Advances in Research since 1986: Chapman and Hall, Tokyo, Melbourne. ; Compendium of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Vol. II, ICS, UNIDO 2006, 291(3), 295., Encyclopedia of the Medicinal Plants of the UAE, Vol.I &Vol. II; Journals; Research Gate, Academia, Philadelphia Citation Index, and various other books and PhD theses. He Chaired a number of scientific sessions and delivered talks as a plenary and was invited as a speaker at various International Conferences/Seminars and Symposia. Visited academically almost the whole globe. Fellow & Member of various International Scientific societies; Advisory Boards and referee for many International journals; e.g. Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, The Berkeley Electronic Press; Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Elsevier Publication; Reviewer of a number of International Journals; Honorary Member, International Centre for Integrated Development ResearchNigeria; He has been associated for more than 8 years with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a Focal Point at ZCHRTM, Department of Health, Abu Dhabi(UAE); Member of the Natural Product Registration Committee; Higher Complementary Medicine Committee; and Evaluation Committee for TCAM Practitioners & Therapists -, Ministry of Health & Prevention -UAE from 1997 to 2020); A recipient of UAE Golden Visa for 10 years as a Talented Person, Dr Mohammad Kamil is well-known globally in Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research.

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Francesco Paolo Bianchi was born in Putignano (Italy) on October 29, 1987. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at Bari School of Medicine in 2015; in 2019, he achieved a post-degree in Public Health at Bari University and an advanced course in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at “Cattolica” Rome University. Since March 2020, he is a tenured Senior Physician at the Health Prevention Department of Health Local Authority of Brindisi; in February 2023, he obtained a master's degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Catholic University of Rome. He is a member of Hygiene Unit’s research team at the Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine of the University of Bari, as an expert in biostatistics applied to epidemiology. He is the author of more than 115 articles published in international scientific journals (h-index: 18) and more than 100 contribute to international and national conferences; most of the scientific papers and contributions are in the field of vaccinology and prevention of infectious diseases, health management, and sports medicine.

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Holger Barth is full professor and director of the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products at the University of Ulm Medical Center. He studied biology with a focus on microbiology and biochemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt and worked as PhD student at the Department of Pathochemistry at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. He received his Ph.D. in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1994 at the University of Darmstadt. From 1995-2004 he was post-doc, research associate and finally assistant professor at the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, where he received his habilitation in 2001. From 2004 to 2020, he was Associate Professor for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Ulm Medical Center. He is a German board-certified toxicologist and registered expert toxicologist of the European Union. He initiated and coordinates various academic curricula in Toxicology and is editor and author of several textbooks. Since 2017, he is President of the German Toxicology Society and served 2017 and 2020 as President of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. His research interests are in bacterial protein toxins, their interaction with mammalian cells and their membrane transport inside cells. His laboratory develops pharmacological inhibitors against medically relevant toxins and exploits non-toxic mutants of bacterial toxins for cell type-selective delivery of therapeutic proteins and peptides in the context of trauma, inflammation and cancer

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Biography

My research focuses on human immune cells responses to different pathogenic and non-pathogenic stimuli resulting in metabolic reprogramming of these cells as well as the interaction of immune cells with the surrounding nerves or vascular neighboring cells. Being pharmacy graduate, my research in pharmaceutical sciences was focused first on identifying the serine and cathepsin proteases of the parasite Schistosoma. Soon later, continued my research funded by the German Egyptian long term doctoral scholarship to do research on the transforming of glial and neural cells in the brain tumor “glioblastoma” at the medical faculty in Regensburg, Germany that was continued and extended to isolation and study of polarization of innate human immune cells at the medical faculty in Heidelberg in Germany

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Biography

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Dr. Mirjana B. Čolović, a senior research associate-chemical science, has been employed at University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, from 2005. Her research activities are in the field of enzymology, toxicology, biosensors, physiologically active compounds and their interactions with biomolecules, and the development of novel drug candidates. She published over 150 scientific contributions including 50 papers in impacted international journals, 5 chapters in books, 3 articles in national scientific journals, and over 100 abstracts/proceedings in scientific meetings. She served as a reviewer in over 40 international journals and 9 foreign projects, and as an editorial board member in 2 international journals. Her papers are cited over 2500 times. In 2021 and 2023 she was at USA Stanford University list of top 2% scientists in the world, based on a standardized citation metrics.