Edu Suarez completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at Ponce School of Medicine (PR). She is a faculty member at the Department of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico-Ponce since 2004. The last 12 years Prof. Suarez acts as Program Director for an NIH undergraduate training grant to increase Biomedical Research in underrepresented populations. Dr. Suarez studied breast cancer at molecular/celular levels, searching for novel tratments including calcium sulfide nanoclusters. Most recently, her passion for reaching out to the community coupled with the Pink Luminous Advocacy Project (Silk-Pro,USA), leading her to seek and evaluate innovating breast cancer diagnostic devices.
Katia Cortese
University of Genoa
Italy
Katia Cortese has completed her PhD at the age of 27 years from University of Milan and postdoctoral studies from University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane (AUS). She is Associate Professor of Human Anatomy at the University of Genoa, Department of Experimental Medicine and Head of the Cellular Electron Microscopy Lab, that is mainly interested in cellular and ultrastructural oncology research. So far, she has published 68 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of BMC cancer and Membranes journals.
Jun Liang
Harvard University
USA
Jun Liang received his Ph.D from Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Andrew G. Myers. He is currently a Distinguished Principal Scientist at Discovery Chemistry Dept, at Genenetch, which he joined in 2005. Before Genentech, Jun worked at Merck Research Lab from 2000-2005. His research focused on drug discovery of various targets for oncology, cancer immunotherapy, immunolgy, CNS, and infectious disease.
Jack M Berger
University of Southern California
USA
Dr. Berger completed his bachelor and master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley, and his Ph.D. degree from New York University. He completed his Medical Doctor degree at the University of Bologna in Italy. Returning to the United States he completed his residency in Anesthesiology at USC and UCLA and then practiced Anesthesiology in the private sector for 15 years. In 1995 he returned to academic anesthesiology at USC where he practiced and taught anesthesiology and pain management for 25 years. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Clinical Anesthesiology. Dr. Berger has published numerus articles in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. His interests have been in the area of molecular mechanisms of chronic pain, with particular attention to translation of bench research into clinical practice utilizing regional anesthetic techniques, pre-operative polypharmacy, intra-operative anesthetic management, and understanding of post-operative pain management.