Conference Speakers

Rama Bhat P

Designation: Professor University: Alvas College Country: India More Details

Dr. Rama Bhat P is a Professor and Head of Department of PG Studies and Research in Biotechnology at Alva’s College, affiliated to Mangalore University, Karnataka, India. He has more than 25 years of Research and Teaching experience. He obtained his Masters, M. Phil. and Doctorate degree from Mangalore University and published more than 80 research papers in National and International reputed research journals. He participated in more than 60 National and International Conferences/seminars as speaker/resource person and presented papers. He is serving as Editorial Board member of 5 International Journals and Reviewer for more than 20 International Journals. He Worked in Indo-Norwegian Environmental program project, IPGRI, Malaysia project, KIOCL project and NPC Kaiga projects on biodiversity conservation and ex situ conservation.

His research interest includes Plant Biotechnology, Immunomodulatory studies, Biodiversity Conservation, Herbal Pharmacology and Microbial interactions.

Boris M Zaydliner

Designation: Physician University: Regional Cancer Hospital Country: Russian Federation More Details

Boris M Zaydliner is a Physician at Regional Cancer Hospital, Russian Federation. He has completed his graduation from Rostov Medical University and PhD from National Cancer Research Centre (Sankt-Petersburg, SU) and postdoctoral studies at Advanced Medical Training University (Sankt-Petersburg). He become one of the founders of Palliative Care Service & was awarded honorary diploma for contribution to palliative care development (2019). In 1993-5 – Member of Scientific-Guidance Council at Russian Ministry of Health; since 1995 – Member of “Palliative Care in Cancer” Expert Council at this Ministry. Since 1999 – Member of Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC), his activity has been repeatedly awarded MASCC prizes. He has published 3 monographs on cancer care, course of lectures “Supportive Care in Cancer”, more than 20 papers in reputed journals. Also he is an author of essay anthology "Silver Age".

Dr. Irina Vlasova-St. Louis

Designation: Assistant Professor University: University of Minnesota Country: USA More Details

Dr. Irina Vlasova-St. Louis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA. She has established a translational research program in immune restoration disorders (IRD). She collaborates with several clinical trials, working on the stratification of patients for optimal immunomodulatory treatments and with the Division Hematology-Oncology and Transplantation, on virus-specific immune cell reconstitution after various hematopoietic cell transplantation regimens. Her primary research focuses on the identification of biomarkers of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS): in Leukemia patients who received hematopoietic cell transplantation, and in AIDS patients after initiation of Antiretroviral therapy.

Dr. Irianiwati Widodo

Designation: Head of the Department of Pathology University: Gadjah Mada University Country: Indonesia More Details

Dr. Irianiwati Widodo is a Head of the Department of Pathology and a Senior Pathologist from Department of Anatomic Pathology in Gadjah Mada University and Sarjito General Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She graduated her studies of Medical Doctor, General Pathologist, pathologist consultant and also a Doctoral program from the same Gadjah Mada university and become a lecturer for almost 25 years. Her main interest in the field of Pathology is Breast and Female Genital Pathology, Dermathopathology and in breast cancer, her main focus research is on Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), a subtype of breast cancer that have poor prognosis. She is actively doing collaborative research with various fields of science and publishing it in the Internatiomal journal. Her next research projects on breast cancer is on tumor microenvironment such as immune cells, extra cellular matrix and angiogenesis that affect tumor growth and spread.

Dr. Galina Bogoslovskaya

Designation: Lecturer University: Limpopo University Country: South Africa More Details

Dr. Galina Bogoslovskaya is a lecturer at Limpopo University and trains junior staff, interns, and medical students. She received her Medical Doctor degree from Tomsk Medical University in 1978 (Tomsk, Russia). She was awarded PhD in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in 1993 from the Institute of Cardiology from Tomsk Scientific Center (Russia). Since 2006 Dr. Bogoslovskaya has been working at Polokwane/Makweng hospitals (South Africa). Her career as an Internal Medicine and Cardiology specialist took her to Georgetown (Guyana), Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania). She has published multiple papers and proposed several innovative methods in diagnosis and treatment of cardiac pathology, hematology, endocrinology, infectious diseases and tropical medicine. Her research interests include cardiology, pulmonology, and infectious diseases.

Ali Adel Dawood

Designation: Lecturer University: University of Mosul Country: Iraq More Details

Dr. Ali Adel Dawood is a Lecturer at University of Mosul, Iraq. He teaches Medical biology for the 1^st medical students. He completed his B.Sc. Microbiology from University of Mosul, M.Sc. Biotechnology from University Technology Malaysia and Ph.D. Microbiology from University of Mosul. He is an editorial member of 3 international journals. He has 28 publications in different impact factor journals. He has reviewed more than 82 papers. He has an expertise in fields of Microbiology, Virology, Molecular Medicine, Genetics and Bioinformatics.

Lekshmy M S

Designation: Researcher University: Kerala University of Health Sciences Country: India More Details

Dr. Lekshmy M S is a Researcher at PMS College of Dental Science and Research, Kerala University of Health Sciences, India. She completed her Master of Dental Surgery in Oral Pathology and Microbiology from Kerala University of Health Sciences and Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Amrita Viswa Vidhya Peedam, India. She has presented various papers of her researches in various International and National conferences. She was Awarded First Prize in Poster Competition conducted as a part of Oral Cancer Symposium at Azeezia College of Dental Sciences and Research, Kollam in 2019 and also Awarded Best Scientific Paper for presenting a paper entitled “Transmemebrane Protein Aquaporin 3 as a potential biomarker – A study on differential expression in Oral leukoplakia and Oral squamous cell carcinoma” in the scientific sessions at the 28th National conference of IAOMP organized at Kovalam, Trivandrum in 2019.

Zulfiyya Imamguliyeva

Designation: Medical Oncologist University: National Center of Oncology Country: Azerbaijan More Details

Zulfiyya Imamguliyeva is a Medical Oncologist at the National Center of Oncology in Baku, Azerbaijan. She has graduated from the Azerbaijan Medical University and earned her Oncology - Medical Degree at the Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute. She had long term Fellowship training in Head and Neck Oncology Department in Milan ,Italy granted by European School of Oncology. During the residency period, she have granted IDEA(International Development Educational Award) by ASCO(American Society of Clinical Oncology) and she was as an observership in Hematology/Oncology department at the Cleveland Clinic in USA. She had several grant by ESMO and selected for participate as a presenter at the preceptorship courses. Also in Italy, she involved to the research activity. The article ”Multidisciplinary Management of Radiation-Induced Salivary Gland Carcinomas in the Modern Radiotherapy Era” has been published in the MDPI journal. She has interest for doing academic research and working on several projects.

Leisa Jackson

Designation: Scientist University: Biodesix Inc. Country: USA More Details

Leisa Jackson is a Scientist on the Development team at Biodesix in Boulder, Colorado, USA. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Florida State University and has been working as a molecular biologist for 18 years. Leisa’s background was in academic research before she joined the Biodesix team in 2015. She has since been working with the other members of the Biodesix team to develop diagnostic tests for lung cancer. Most recently she contributed as technical lead for the validation of the Bio-Rad SARS-CoV-2 Droplet Digital™ PCR (ddPCR™) test in the Biodesix clinical laboratory in collaboration with Bio-Rad.

Mwesigwa Boaz

Designation: President University: Cytology Society of Uganda (CSU) Country: Uganda More Details

Mwesigwa Boaz is a senior cytotechnologist and a President at Cytology Society of Uganda (CSU), Uganda. He has worked with various pathology laboratories in Uganda and Somalia at pathology solutions diagnostic centre and Al-zahra Specialty Hospital respectively. He has participated in various Conferences and was awarded the Best Abstract Award for Poster presentation: “Detection of cervical cytological abnormalities by pap smear method among women attending the screening clinic of Nsambya Hospital” at 1^st Uganda Pharmaceutical Symposium, April 2017. His interest includes Molecular pathology, cervical cytopathology and Histotechnology.

Shilpa Shiragannavar

Designation: Research Scholar University: Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University Country: India More Details

Shilpa Shiragannavar is a Research Scholar in the field of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology from Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University, India. She completed her B.E in Biotechnology from Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot and M.E in Bioinformatics from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. She had worked for a project at Institute of Computational Biology, Bangalore for six month and also worked for five projects involving subtractive genomics, computational vaccinology, microarray, protein modelling. She has published seven articles in International peer reviewed journals Springer and others that are indexed in Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed and presented papers in seven National and International conferences. She has Completed three months training on Basic Techniques in Bioinformatics funded by DBT-BIF and has attended workshop on Protein Simulation & Dynamic Studies at Pune. She has Completed course DL101 on Intellectual Property conducted by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She has four years of teaching experience at PG level. Her area of interest includes computational vaccinology, systems biology, microarray techniques.

Dr. R. P. Priyadharsini

Designation: Assistant Professor University: JIPMER, Karaikal Country: India More Details

Dr. R. P. Priyadharsini is a Assistant Professor in the department of Pharmacology in JIPMER Karaikal, India. She completed her MBBS in Coimbatore medical college and MD in JIPMER Puducherry. She worked as senior resident in JIPMER Puducherry for three years and assistant professor in JIPMER Karaikal for past three years. Her research areas of interest are preclinical studies, pharmacovigilance, and pharmacogenomics.