Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance

Mallesh Kurakula is currently a Research Scientist working on an NIH project at the Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Memphis, TN, USA, and also a Consultant for Triad Life Sciences^®, TN, industry for innovative projects. His area of expertise includes advanced drug delivery, medical devices, and gene delivery. He is from a multidisciplinary background having a Ph.D. in Chemistry (2015), Masters in Pharmaceutics (2011), and Bachelor in Pharmacy (2009). Earlier he worked on “Fabrication and Evaluation of Polymeric Nanoscaffolds as Implantable Medical Device in Spinal Cord Injuries” as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bologna, Italy (2016-18) and on “Use of Lipid Nanoparticles for Effective Delivery of siRNA against Chikungunya Virus” as a research associate at CSIR-Indian Institute of chemical technology (IICT), India (2018-19). To date, he has published research (22), reviews papers (07), book chapters (06) in high-impact factor ISI indexed journals. He has even disseminated research in international arenas conducted across the United States, Europe & Middle East. Based on his international recognition in the area of expertise, he is serving as an Editorial board member, Review Editor, Guest Editor for book / special issues, and a peer reviewer in reputed journals, from different publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, MDPI, Frontiers, Bentham sciences. He has been a faculty judge panel member for research projects and abstract reviewer for OrDD session, Controlled release society (CRS) 2020, annual meeting at Vegas (July 2020).

Iris valtingojer is a group leader in the molecular oncology research department from sanofi, france. Her professional experience lies in the leadership of small molecule drug discovery projects in a precision medicine context. Over the past 10 years she has taken multiple projects from target identification up to development candidate selection. Iris’ research team focuses on new and innovative pathways for cancer therapy and the identification of targets and drugs in this context. She joined sanofi as a post-doc in biochemistry and holds a ph.d. from the max-planck institute in cologne, germany, as well as a master degree in biology and biochemistry from the university of vienna, austria.

Souvik Basak, age 39 years, has completed his B.Pharm. and M.Pharm from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2004 and 2006 respectively) and accomplished his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore at 2013. He has been working as Associate Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Dr. B.C. Roy College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences, Durgapur, WB, India since 2018. He has published more than 30 papers in various international journals of repute, several book chapters and more than 50 conference proceedings/presentations. He has published one Indian patent and associated as research consultant with various international research farms and Professors. He is currently also a member of fellow of Institute of Chemist, India

Marina Slavsky has completed her M.S. from Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies, Russia. She is the senior scientist in AstraZeneca DMPK group. Marina has extensive experience in high throughput assay development, automation, validation, and implementation for drug discovery and development.

Swietnicki is a scientist working on antibacterial strategies. The work is focused on novel vaccines and therapeutics targeting bacterial virulence systems. Dr. Swietnicki obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 1995 for his work on Hepatitis A Virus 3C protease. Later he worked on human prion proteins at CWRU, Cleveland, OH, USA before starting work on Select Agents at USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, MD, USA, and ECBC, APG, MD, USA. In 2011 he moved to Poland to work on virulence blockers of enteropathogenic E. coli at EIT+ and later on novel vaccines against periodontitis at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of PAS in Wroclaw, PL.