Glycobiology, Glycochemistry and Metabolic Disorders

Fatema Al-rashed, Ph.D, is a post-doc researcher at the immunology unit of dasman diabetes institute in Kuwait.  She hold a B.Sc in Microbiology with immunology from Leeds University , and both MRes and a Ph.D in biomedical science from Glasgow and Nottingham University, respectively . From 2005 to 2010 she worked as medical technician at the immunology unit of Mubarak al Kabeer hospital, Kuwait. And after obtaining her Ph.D in 2016 she decided to switch to research were here research interests span both lipotoxicity and para-inflammation. Much of her work has been on improving the understanding, design, and performance of lipid metabolism, mainly through controlling bioactive lipids and the manipulation of nuclear factors regulators. Before joining Dasman diabetes institute, her research examined the impact of phycology on insulin sensitivity. After joining Dasman diabetes instituete, her work has focused on the impact of obesity in obesity and diabetes related inflammation. She has explored the effect of bioactive lipids in obesity induced inflammation. In 2017 she received L'OréalUNESCO For Women in Science award, for her research on the effect of lipid metabolites in monocytic lipotoxicity and inflammatory responses.

Mohamed Eddouks is Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Errachidia, Morocco. He is a researcher in Physiology and Pharmacology with a Master Degree in Metabolic and Molecular Endocrinology from University of Paris 6, a specialized certificate in Endocrine Pharmacology from University of Paris 7 and PhD degrees in Physiology and Pharmacology from University of Liege, Belgium and Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco. After his post-doctoral fellowship at Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine of Montreal, Canada, he is working for the last 20 years on medicinal plants. His contribution to this field includes four international books, 5 special issues in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine and more than 100 indexed peer-reviewed articles and 20 book chapters of international repute. He served as Guest Editor and Member of Editorial Board of several international journals. He has been honored with the first Prize of Scientific Research in 2008 by the Moroccan Association of Research and Development and the first Prize of the Federation of Arab Scientific Councils in 2016. He has been classified among the best third Moroccan researchers in the field of Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences by the National Center of Scientific Research and Technology, Morocco for his scientific contribution. He has been the founding Dean of Polydisciplinary Faculty of Errachidia from 2008 to 2012.

Jatin P. Shah, M.D, holds The Elliott W. Strong Chair, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). His publications have been cited over 58000 times according to Google scholar. His h-index is 136 and i10 index is 527. He has published 14 medical textbooks. He has served as president of The New York Cancer Society, The New York Head and Neck Society, The Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, The North American Skull Base Society and the International Academy of Oral Oncology. and serves as its CEO. He was awarded Honorary Fellowships and Doctorates from Edinburgh, London, Ireland, Australia Belgium, Greece, and India. In recognition of his outstanding career Dr. Shah has been honored with an eponymous lecture in his name by the IFHNOS, an academic symposium in his name at the American Head and Neck Society, and the Jatin Shah Lectureship and an Endowed Professorial Chair at MSKCC in New York.