Precision Medicine Virtual 2020

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Dr. Wen Jin Wu is currently a Senior Investigator in Division of Biotechnology Review and Research I (DBRR1), Office of Biotechnology Products (OBP), Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA. He earned his M.D. from Wannan Medical College in China. In 2002 he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. After two years Research Associate supervised by Dr. Richard Cerione at Cornell University, he obtained the position of a Principal Investigator (PI) in OBP at FDA in 2004. In addition to his regulatory duty as a Product Quality Reviewer, Dr. Wu’s laboratory at FDA investigates the roles of ErbB/HER family receptors in breast cancer progression, conducts physiochemical and biological characterization of HER2-targeted antibody therapeutics, including monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and bispecific antibodies, and antibody engineering generating novel bispecific antibodies for the treatment of breast cancer. His laboratory also carries out the development of cell-based bioassays for bispecific antibodies. He has published many research papers in highly reputed journals, including mAbs, Scientific Reports, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature, Cell, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, and Cancer Research, and has been invited to give talks in many national and international conferences.

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Sergey Suchkov was born in the City of Astrakhan, Russia, in a family of dynasty medical doctors. In 1980, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University and was awarded with MD. In 1985, Suchkov maintained his PhD as a PhD student of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy and Institute of Medical Enzymology. In 2001, Suchkov maintained his Doctor Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. From 1989 through 1995, Dr Suchkov was being a Head of the Lab of Clinical Immunology, Helmholtz Eye Research Institute in Moscow. From 1995 through 2004 - a Chair of the Dept for Clinical Immunology, Moscow Clinical Research Institute (MONIKI). In 1993-1996, Dr Suchkov was a Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board, Biomedical Science, an international journal published jointly by the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

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Dr. Rajiv Mohan is Professor and Endowed Chair of Ophthalmology at the University of Missouri and Research Career Scientist at the Truman VA Hospital Columbia, Missouri, USA. His lab is developing precision medicine approaches for various blinding diseases. Dr. Mohan is a corneal disease expert with a track record of research mentoring. He has authored >140 journal articles, >10 book chapters, >400 abstracts; received numerous prestigious awards including from the world’s largest eye society, ARVO. Dr. Mohan serves on the editorial boards of >20 journals, organized/chaired >100 sessions, and delivered >75 lectures globally in over 30 countries.

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Dr. Teng is an Assistant Professor at Augusta University and a member of Georgia Cancer Center. The main research activity in his lab is to understand and reverse mechanisms of cancer metastasis and metabolism, and to develop highly effective anticancer modalities using nanoparticles and stapled peptides. He has been the PI on multiple DOD and NIH grants, and authored over 100 articles and book chapters. In addition, he serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board Member for many reputed journals (e.g. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, Frontiers in Oncology, Cancer Management and Research).

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Xubao Zhang received his doctorate in electronics from Xi’an Electronic Science and Technology University in China and was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University in Canada. He has been interested in hearing aid technology strategies and performance evaluation. He worked as EA and EMC engineer with Sonova Unitron in Canada, and also worked with Oticon Canada and Beltone Canada. And he worked as associate professor at EE department of this University in China for radar signal processing research. He is the author of one book and more than 40 articles.

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Pawel Rosikiewicz has 16 years of experience in Molecular Biology and Data Science. He studied and worked in several top Polish, French, and Swiss Academic Institutions, including Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and the Polish Academy of Science as molecular biologist, biostatistician, and software developer. At the same time, he provided consulting services to biotech- companies on NGS, large scale microorganism production and bio-data collection and management.

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Andres D. Klein received his B.Sc in Biochemistry and his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Dr. Klein did a postdoc at Stanford University (2009-2011) and a second postdoc (2011-2015) at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Currently he directs the Center for Genetics and Genomics at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile. Prof. Klein was awarded with the young Chilean innovator prize by MIT technology reviews (2013), he was selected as one of the top 100 young Chilean leaders (2013), and recently received the Pew Innovation Fund (2018), among other recognitions.

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Dr. Hai-Hua Chuang is a family physician with an expertise on weight management. She is an attending physician and assistant professor in Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital (Taipei & Linkou), the biggest medical center in Taiwan and also a visiting scholar at Obesity Institute and Genomic Medicine Institute of Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA. The clinical service and research interests of Dr. Chuang are in the field of the epidemiology, health impacts, treatment, and preventive methods of obesity and related comorbidities. Dr. Chuang has also been conducting the largest workplace health promotion project for medical workers in Taiwan since 2013.

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Dr. Rasmeh AL- Huneiti is a Clinical Guidelines Specialist at the Ministry of Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Department, in state of Qatar. She is also a guest lecturer in Healthcare at Calgary University Qatar. Rasmeh holds a BSc in General Nursing from the University of Jordan. She has a PhD in Medical Education from Brunel University in the UK. Her post graduate qualifications include a Diploma in Primary Healthcare, MSc in General Nursing Education and International Diploma in HR Management.As a reviewer and editing board member she contributed to several international conferences, peer reviewed journals and her research work is published internationally. Since 2015 she has been serving as Adjunct Professor at Calgary University Qatar and as Guest Lecturer on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality, and Healthcare Regulation for the master’s Leadership in nursing program. Rasmeh is also a guest speaker for the Patient Safety and Change Management Community Medicine Residency Program.

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