Virology, Emerging Diseases and Vaccines

Dr. Hari Mohan Saxena earned a PhD degree in Immunology from the University of Nottingham, UK. He was a recipient of the prestigious Jawahar Lal Nehru Scholarship of the Nehru Trust, UK. Dr. Saxena recently retired as a Professor of Immunology from GADVASU, Ludhiana where he was also the Head of the Veterinary Microbiology Department earlier. He has served as the Director (Resident Instructions) cum Dean, Postgraduate Studies and Director of Veterinary Clinical Complex at Bihar Animal Sciences University, Patna. He has also served as the Counsellor (Science & Technology) in the Embassy of India, Moscow (concurrently accredited to Ukraine and Belarus also). 

Prof. Dr Kazi Abdul Mannan is an Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Business Studies in Bangladesh and is currently the Director of the Migration Research and Development Society of Bangladesh (MRDSB) and Center for Academic & Professional Career Development and Research (CAPCDR). He obtained the B.Com, BA, LLB and the M.Com (Marketing) from the University of Dhaka and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from the Southern Cross University, Australia. In 1995, he joined the Institute of Business Studies, Moscow, as a Lecturer. Since 2005, he has been with the same Institute, where he was an Assistant Professor, and became an Associate Professor in 2000, and moved to University Uttara as a Professor. His research interests include migration, diaspora, remittance, business and public health. He has published books and has almost one hundred conference papers, articles in National and International Journals. His research interests include, Migrations, and Remittances.

Having 17 years of public health background, Dr. Khan is a medical graduate, working in the division of Field Epidemiology & Disease Surveillance Division (FE&DSD) as a Senior Field Epidemiologist dealing with infectious disease surveillance & outbreaks response at the National Institute of Health (NIH). He has been the Focal Person/team lead for IDSR since 2016 to work closely with Public Health England in designing and implementing IDSRS in the country.  He is also working as the National Focal Person for Infection Prevention & Control. He is the clinical coordinator and faculty member for FELTP Pakistan. He presented more than 10 abstracts at international conferences and got first prize in outbreak response activities during the 4^th EMPHNET conference.

Princess Alexandra B. Duque-David completed her Doctor of Medicine at the age of 24 years at Far Eastern University- NRMF, Quezon City, Philippines. Recently, completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Jose B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital, Pampanga, Philippines

Dr. Leon G. Leanse is currently appointed as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School working within the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a molecular microbiologist by training, with an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in molecular microbiology from Imperial College London. Dr. Leanse’s research is current is currently focused on synergistic light-antimicrobial interactions for the elimination of multidrug resistant localized infections.

Clinical lab scientist, microbiologist, and chemist as my graduation field in Science faculty Alexandria and Tanta Uni. Egypt.El Kasr El Aeny Hospital.
I have a good scientific background in biology, clinical microbiology, biochemistry, molecular microbiology, cell culture, bioinformatics, virology, and immunology.as i gained these experiences from work and scientific courses .focusing on HCVs Hepatitis c virus and Immunology i earned MSc degree, Tanta Uni.

I am Fariha Altaaf young researcher in the field of Microbiology belongs to Pakistan. I have a passion and learn new expertise in evaluation in improving health and wellbeing. I am very passionate and hardworking to create new pathways for improving healthcare. I have done this research and built this model after years of experience in microbiology research, evaluation, teaching, and administration both from hospital and education institutions. The methodology in this research includes competitive ELISA that illustrates, seroprevalence and association of risk factors.

Anh Bourcet Nguyen is a global healthcare leader bringing 15 years of experience in Asia-Pacific and Europe, in the private and public sectors (Abbott, J&J; French Safety Agency). She is passionate about making an impact on patient care, by enabling change and better access to innovations. Her various roles in Medical Affairs, Health Economics & Market Access and Regulatory Policy, across diagnostics, medical devices and pharmaceutical industries, enable her to have a broad perspective on different levers of market access. 

Her most recent positions were in the leadership for Market Access & Policy Shaping Strategy in Orthopedics and Diagnostics, while establishing the function in the latter. She is past Founding Chair of the Asia-Pacific Medical Technology Association Digital Health Committee Reimbursement Working Group, where she led the industry effort in shaping the external environment to drive access for Digital Health Technologies. Always keen to support innovations, she has trained and mentored HealthTech start-ups for the last 4 years. Lastly, she is the founder of Health Access Solutions (HAS-3P), a market access consultancy agency.

Andrea Borns, microbiologist and respiratory therapist who holds a Master’s of Public Health is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of ZEN Clinical and Bioscience. ZEN is a newly-formed consulting and laboratory client-driven research and development (R&D) company in the field of bacteriophage therapy and phage biotechnology to address emerging infectious and neglected tropical diseases. Originally from Brazil, Andrea started her career in Biomedical Sciences and was involved in HIV/AIDS research during the late ’90s in Rio de Janeiro. She is also a former Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education at the University of the District of Columbia, USA, where she worked closely with lung diseases, critical care, and mechanical ventilation before her comeback to the bench.

Marina Sidorenko has completed his PhD in two specialties: soil science and microbiology. She is a leading researcher at the FSCEATB FEB RAS. She has published over 35 articles in well-known journals and 4 patents of the Russian Federation, is a member of the editorial board and reviewer of several journals. Her areas of interest are applied microbiology, soil microbiome, sanitary microbiology. Vladislav Sidorenko is a student of PRMU. She has a 3 articles in scientific journal. Hers scientific interests: medical microbiology, epidemiology, infectious diseases.