Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Niсkolai A. Tchurikov, Doctor of Sciences (D. Sci.- molecular biology), now is a Head of the Department of Epigenetic Mechanisms of Gene Expression Regulation, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia. He got his Medicine Doctor's degree (M.D.) at Stavropol State Medical Institute in 1972. In 1977 he got his Molecular Biology Ph.D. at Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, USSR. Winner of the State Award of the USSR for the discovery on the molecular level of mobile elements in eukaryotes, 1983. 1977 – Ph.D.- “Discovery and properties of mobile element Dm225 in Drosophila genome”. 1989 – D.Sci. – “Molecular organization of the cut locus in Drosophila melanogaster”. In 1977-1980 discovered at the molecular level mobile genetic elements in Drosophila and clusters of different mobile elements. In 1981-1989 cloned the entire complex cut locus from Drosophila and detected multiple transposition events in the locus and several new mobile elements. In 1988-2000 detected the physical capacity of DNA and RNA molecules to form parallel duplexes. In 1998 sequenced completely a novel LTR element, burdock. In 1988-2015 detected large chromosomal domains corresponding to the units of coordinated gene expression, trans-RNAi. Current interests – epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of gene expression, regulation of siRNA and piRNA pathways of silencing, the study of higher-order chromosomal structures by 4C, and development of RNAi approach for AIDS/HIV treatment.

Ahmed Nour Eldine Abdallah is a Researcher at the Hormones department in the Stem cell Research Unit at the Medical research and clinical studies institute under  National Research Center. he is affiliated with Animal Health Research Institute, Dokki, Egypt.

David is a structural and cell biologist, currently an instructor at Harvard Medical School. She completed her graduate studies at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. For her Postdoctoral training, Liron joined the structural immunology lab of Prof. Hao Wu at the Harvard Medical School and was awarded the Cancer Research Institute postdoctoral fellowship. Liron obtained in-depth training in cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cell biology including cellular imaging and other cutting-edge techniques and followed her passion to investigate large and challenging molecular assemblies and membrane proteins in the field of immunology, cancer research and mechanotransduction investigating piezo channels in myoblasts.

Serena Barachini has a degree in Biology and a Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from the University of Rome where she worked for six years in the lab of Tumor Immunology and Cell Therapy and she had attended a Postgraduate School in Clinical Pathology at the Hospital of Pisa where she was active in on-hematology for five years. She is working with Prof. Iacopo Petrini in “Laboratory for Cell Therapy” at the University of Pisa, where she is coordinating a group of researchers. Her study focuses on the isolation of MSCs and MPCs in human bone marrow, cord blood, and adipose tissues. Her work also concerns the study of cancer stem cells isolated from hematological diseases, thymoma, and glioblastoma. In particular, she has expertise in 3D cultures, flows cytometry, and cell sorting combined with molecular and cell biology techniques, applied in research projects concerning human stem cells both in tissue repair and cancers. 

Mahajan completed his master's in General Surgery from Marathwada University, Maharashtra, and pursued a Diploma in Urology at the University of Vienna, Austria. In a career-changing move, after three decades of being a successful general and uro-surgeon, he started his brainchild-StemRx Bioscience Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2011. This was to focus on in-depth research in Regenerative Medicine and Cell-Based Therapy which he believes is the solution to address the limitations of conventional therapeutic modalities. To this effect, he underwent and continues to undergo intensive training in the United States. He has devised personalized treatment protocols for more than 75 health conditions in cell-based therapy. Dr. Mahajan is a Life member and Joint Secretary of The Stem Cell Society of India as well as Vice President of the Anti-Aging Foundation, Delhi, and Scientific National Advisor, of the Indian Stem Cell Study Group. He has been appointed as Hon. Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Cell-Based Therapy at Dr. R N Cooper Hospital, Mumbai, and Faculty for MD Transfusion Medicine at KEM Hospital, Mumbai. Examiner for various fellowship courses with D.Y. Patil Institute, Kolhapur. 

Hiroshi Asahara was trained as an Orthopedic Surgeon after graduating from Okayama University Medical School. His career as a researcher led him to be a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and a staff scientist at Salk Institute, under Prof. Marc Montminy. Asahara now organizes his lab as a Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and as Professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. Based on his unique Systems Biomedicine approaches combining a novel strategy and database, he and his lab are trying to uncover molecular mechanisms of musculoskeletal development and identify the critical pathway to regulate inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis.

Basak Isıldar completed her bachelor's degree in the fields of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Istanbul University University. She received her master's and doctorate degrees from Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology. In her master's thesis, she investigated the characteristics of mesenchymal stem cells isolated after freezing the umbilical cord in different cryopreservation solutions, and in her doctoral thesis, the effects of conditioned media obtained from MSCs cultured in 2D and 3D environments on experimental autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D). Her studies on extracellular vesicles and conditioned medium derived from MSCs and their effects on T1D are still ongoing. She also gives Histology and Embryology lectures at Balikesir University, Faculty of Medicine.

Serbay Ozkan completed his bachelor’s degree in the fields of molecular biology and genetics and chemistry (double major program) at Bogaziçi University (which is one of the top universities in Turkey). He performed a comparative characterization of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) obtained from different regions of the umbilical cord and evaluated their ultrastructural morphologies during osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation in his master’s degree. He continued his studies in the field of MSCs during the doctorate program. In this respect, he evaluated the therapeutic potential of conditioned mediums obtained from MSCs which are preconditioned or not on diabetic nephropathy. His studies on the field of extracellular vesicles and conditioned medium derived from MSCs continue. He is also giving lectures as a histologist and embryologist at Izmir Katip Celebi University Medical Faculty.