15^th Annual European Pharma Congress May 07-09, 2018 Frankfurt, Germany

Ke-He Ruan is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacology and he is Director for Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacoinformatics (CETP)

Signaling Molecules and Drugs, Drug targets, Molecular Mechanisms, Biomedical field

Dr. Anka G. Ehrhardt is a biophysicist with a doctorate degree in human physiology. She is currently working in the United States building and directing a team applying the latest technologies in support of the development of new live saving drugs.

Velvet Revolution in Biomarkers, Science and Business Drivers in Clinical Biomarkers

DR. Emmauel O. Akala completed his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from University of Manchester, England and did his NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Pharmaceutics and BioEngineering from University of Utah. He is currently teaching in Howard University and the courses includes Pharmaceutical technology, Physical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Mathematics, Biopharmaceutics and Applied Pharmacokinetics.

His research interests includes Controlled Drug Delivery and Drug Targeting, Drug Formulation and Stability Studies, Pharmacokinetics in Pharmaceutical Dosage Form Design, Pharmacokinetics in Pharmaceutical Dosage Form Design, Drug Formulation and Stability Studies, Biomaterials, Biopharmecutical Application of Nanotechnology.

Dr Habtemariam has completed his PhD and 2 years of postdoctoral research (Strathclyde Institute for Drug Research) and 4 years of lectureship at Strathclyde University. Since then, he has been a leader of researches on bioassays & natural products-based drug development at the University of Greenwich and also founder/owner of Herbal Analysis Services. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the African Academic Institute and The African Academy of Sciences. He has published over 150 papers in peer review journals and has been serving as an editorial board member for many journals. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta.

Drug discovery; Natural products chemistry and pharmacology; bioassay screens developments; chromatographic and spectroscopic analysis.

Dr. Ghalib Abbasi is an experienced leader, strategist and consultant in the fields of hospital pharmacy and industrial healthcare informatics/technology. In addition to having over 15 years of professional experience, several peer-reviewed publications and US patents, Dr. Abbasi is a nationally- and internationally-recognized innovator of high-tech approaches that improve patient safety and healthcare organizational deliverables. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from the University of Iowa, Master of Science in Clinical/Hospital Pharmacy (MS) from the same school, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from West Texas A&M University, and Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Jordan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Abbasi has worked in several pharmacy settings including community, hospital, and industry. He holds several academic and professional honors and rewards, and continues to be dedicated to improving the pharmacy profession and enhancing safe medication practices through technology. Dr. Abbasi focuses on creating and evaluating novel solutions revolving around improving patient and user safety in IV medication preparation and administration, along with integrating such solutions with other healthcare system components. He resides in Tampa, Florida, United States.

Hospital pharmacy and industrial healthcare informatics/technology

Dr. Bimal Roy Krishna is currently Professor and Director of Pharmacology at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University in Nevada. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honors) in Pharmacology and Physiology and a Doctor of Philosophy, Medicine (OB/GYN/Pharmacology) from Monash University in Australia. Dr. Krishna also teaches for the Step 1 USMLE and COMLEX reviews for Kaplan Medical throughout the United States and in UAE, Europe, Saudi Arabia, India, Mexico and the Caribbean. He has been teaching online for Kaplan University for over 7 years. He has contributed to numerous publications and is a member of a number of organizations including Fellow-American College of Clinical Pharmacology.

His research background is in maternal and neonatal pharmacology specifically looking at materno-fetal transfer utilizing the perfused human placental and cultured syncytiotrophoblast model. Complementary and Alternative medicine is another area of interest.

Jean-Michel Scherrmann, Pharm. D., Ph. D. is professor in the department of Pharmacokinetics, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University Paris Descartes. He has led the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) from 2002 to 2013. He has been recently promoted Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at University Paris Descartes and nominated Professor at the National Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Techniques. Pr Scherrmann has made major contributions in the development of drug radioimmunoassay, drug detoxification by immunotherapy and drug redistribution concepts in pharmacokinetics. He is now focusing his research on the role of drug transporters in neuropharmacokinetics and on drug delivery strategies to the brain. His work has resulted in two patents, 350 scientific articles, 35 books chapters and more than 250 invited presentations.

Pharmacokinetics, neuropharmacokinetics, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Neuroscience & Behavior

Dr. Xu is a Full Professor in Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), Zhuhai Scholar Distinguished Professor, Associate Director of UIC Key Lab -Laboratory for Health Promotion Mechanism of Medicinal Food and Folk Remedy, author of 120 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Xu received Ph.D in Chungnam National University, South Korea. He conducted postdoctoral research work in North Dakota State University, Purdue University, and Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation during 2005-2009. Dr. Xu is serving as Associate Editor-in-Chief of Food Science and Human Wellness, an Editorial Board member of several international journals. He received inaugural President’s Award for Research of UIC in 2016.

The overall goal of his research is to understand health promoting effects of phytochemicals. Specific interests include: 1) Complex relationship among diet, gut microbiota, and human health, 2) health benefits (targeted at aging, cancers, obesity, and diabetes) assessment of phytochemicals from natural products; 3) cellular and molecular mechanisms of bioactive components in disease prevention.

Dr. Akgün obtained a doctorate (Ph.D) in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara/Turkey. She visited Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, as post-doctoral researcher, and, Department of Chemistry in Faculty of Science and Art, University of Florida, as visiting professor, both in the USA. She worked at Hacettepe University, in Ankara. Since 2004 she has been a full time professor in Faculty of Pharmacy, Yeditepe University, Istanbul. Currently, Dr. Akgün is also an adjunct professor in Faculty of Pharmacy, Near East University, in Cyprus. She has published more than 68 scientific publications and conference proceedings. Dr. Akgün has been an editor of Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry,( CTMC) since 2001, published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Anticancer drugs, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry.

Sanda Vladimir-Knežević (MPharm, MSc, PhD) is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy. She had also served as Head of the Centre for Applied Pharmacy and Vice Dean for Science at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. She teaches graduate and postgraduate courses in the area of pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, phytotherapy and pharmaceutical care. She has been principal investigator or participated to several national and international research projects.

Phytochemical characterization and biological effects of medicinal plants and natural products as a potential source of novel therapeutic agents

Ladislav Novotny got his Pharm.D. from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and his Ph.D. from Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, in 1984. He also obtained Higher (Special) Qualification in the field of the “Pharmacology and Toxicology of Drugs" from the Institute for the Postgraduate Qualification of Health Care Professionals in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He became a Doctor of Sciences at Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1997. Consequently, he worked at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, at Comenius University in Bratislava and at the Cancer Research Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He spent a substantial amount of time at The University of Texas System Cancer Center M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas, USA. He served as a Dean at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, from 2003 to 2014. He authored more than 120 original scientific papers, 36 reviews and 7 patents. His scientific work is in area of anticancer agents, experimental cancer therapy and in analysis of properties of various biologically-active compounds.

Pharmacology and Toxicology of Drugs

Dr. sc. Irena Žuntar is working as Full Professor and Specialist of Toxicology at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Croatia. She is course and unit leader of Toxicology. Subject Toxicology is obligatory course in both study programs, study of Pharmacy and study of Medical Biochemistry. Also, she considerably designed postgraduate specialist university program of Toxicology for health professionals and others interested or working in the field. She participated as expert in scientific and professional opinions for Ministry of Health and Croatian Food Agency, and now she is in mandate of the evaluation panel member of Croatian science foundation for scientific field of Biomedicine and health, public health and health protection, pharmacy. She was principal investigator of a scientific grant and researcher on many scientific projects and she gained two scientific awards. She was supervisor of more than 50 student’s diploma thesis, 4 Rector’s awards and two Dean’s awards.

Toxicology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Biomedicine & Health, Genetics and Molecular Biology