“Prof. Chenzhong Li, is the director of the nanobioengineering/biosensor laboratory, in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Florida International University (FIU,Miami). Dr. Li joined in FIU in 2006 and he is a faculty professor (with tenure) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Immunology at the College of Medicine. Dr. Li is an expert in bioelectronics, specifically in the development of biomedical sensors such as wearable/portable bioelectronics for point of care testing.

Dr. Li’s research interests include Point Care of Testings, wireless diagnostics, neuron/cancer biomarker and nanotoxicity measurements and electron transfer study of various biomolecules.

Dr. Rogatsky serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Chromatography and Separation Techniques . During the last 10 years (from 2005), Dr. Rogatsky has published over 30 scientific papers in per-reviewed journals (mostly as the first author) and has presented over 50 posters and lectures. Overall, he has made more than a hundred scientific presentations and publications. Dr. Rogatsky completed his M.Sc. in physical chemistry at Belarus State University (former USSR) in 1990. He completed his PhD in bioanalytical chemistry (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) in 1998. At the end of 1999, he started his post-doctorate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and became a faculty member since 2001 and was a mass spectrometry director at the Biomarker Analytical Resource Core. From October 2015 Dr. Rogatsky is a supervisor of the Chemical Threat Laboratory in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at Wadsworth Center, Albany NY, USA

Design and development ultra-sensitive LC/MS analytical assays of clinical biomarkers and metabolites. LC/MS analysis of peptide hormones and proteins and absolute quantitation using isotope dilution assays. Design and development of multi-dimensional chromatography platforms and investigation of physical processes during column switching and mixing. Investigations of column selectivity under different conditions. Optimization of LC/MS for use of UPLC and fused core columns. - See more at: http://analytical-bioanalytical.pharmaceuticalconferences.com/organizing-committee.php#sthash.kE2Eq7Da.dpuf

Dan Fu is Assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree from Peking University in China (2003). In 2009, he completed his PhD study at Princeton University under the supervision of Professor Warren Warren, working on the development of novel label-free multiphoton absorption microscopy methods. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the G.R.Harrison Spectroscopy Lab led by the late professor Michael Feld at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he investigated quantitative phase microscopy and its applications to live cell imaging. In 2010, he moved to Harvard University to work with Professor Sunney Xie as a postdoctoral fellow, where he developed multiplex stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. He joined the faculty of the University of Washington in the summer of 2015.

Currently his main research interests are the development of quantitative label-free optical microscopy and their biomedical applications such as cancer diagnosis and staging, single cell metabolism, and drug-cell interaction.

Dr. Halasz is a Principal Chemist at the Analytica Department of the Research & Development Center of PQ Corporation. He obtained Magna Cum Laude doctorate degree from the Lajos Kossuth University (today Debrecen University) and also a Ph. D degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary (HAS). His initial twelve years of research in the Hungarian Hydrocarbon Institute focused on development and scale-up of efficient processes for pharmaceutical, fine chemical and petrochemical industries as well as fundamental studies in acid-base catalysis. Later he joined the Central Chemistry Institute of HAS to perform research mainly in zeolite catalysis and the synthesis of high temperature superconducting ceramics. Partly overlapping with these, he also worked on the catalytic fume abatement of automobile exhausts and stack gases at various US universities. In the past 17 years he has studied various properties of silica and derivatives at PQ. He is member of various scientific organizations and has served as chair and president in some. Dr. Halasz edited a book, authored circa 125 publications in the form of book chapters, patents and scientific papers and held more than 80 conference presentations.

His current research focuses on elucidating the molecular structure of various silica derivatives including aqueous alkaline silicate solutions, silica gels and zeolites using mostly vibrational and electronic spectroscopic techniques. Moreover he is interested in finding relationship between some macroscopic properties of these materials, like hydrophobicity, reactivity, catalytic activity and selectivity, porosity, sorption capacity, etc., and their fine molecular constitution with the help of computer simulation of their structures, molecular spectra and experimental data.

Jaya Vejayan has completed his PhD from University Malaya, a premier university in Malaysia. In his MSc he was involved in isolating bioactive compounds from the medicinal plant, Ipomea pes caprae, known to be an antitoxin to jellyfish toxins. While in his PhD he used proteomics to study proteins in various snake venoms in Malaysia. Accordingly, he merged both of the knowledge together to derive the 2DE guided purification technique. He has published in a number of publications mainly relevant to the field of toxinology and remained focused in furthering investigations in the use of snake venom for biotechnology purposes.

he used proteomics to study proteins in various snake venoms in Malaysia

He started his teaching career at the University of Malaya in 1978 after completing his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and was promoted to Professor in 2003. He has supervised eight PhD and six MSc students and many thesis projects on environmental analysis of organic chemical pollutants in Malaysian waterways and pesticides in fruits and vegetables by using techniques such as GC, GC-MS, HPLC and LC-MS. He is currently supervising five PhD and one MSc student for their theses. In addition to this, he has supervised a post-doctoral researcher from Turkey on environmental analytical chemistry sponsored by the Malaysia/Turkey Cultural Exchange Programme. His current research interests focus on the environmental pollution problems in Malaysian waterways as a result of industrialisation and increasing agricultural production in this country. He is also currently doing studies on developing microextraction techniques for analysis of pesticide residues in food matrices such fruits and vegetables. He has presented and published many papers on the monitoring of priority environmental organic pollutants at various international and local symposiums and conferences as a result of his research findings. He has also presented papers on the applications and theory of gas chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography at regional workshops organized by the Malaysian Institute of Chemistry. Currently he is also investigating the use of high performance analytical instruments such as GC-MS and LC-MS for the determination of trace organics – pesticide residues and pollutants - in food. He was also the team leader for the Consultancy project for Petronas Advanced Gas Chromatography Course conducted in September 2005. He has also served as the external examiner for PhD and Masters’ theses from UKM, UPM , UTM, UiTM and USM.

Trace Chemical Analysis (Chromatography, GC-MS, LC-MS, Polarography, Method Development) Sample Preparation for Chromatographic Analysis via Microextraction Techniques

Makhapa Makhafola is currently the General Manager: Research & Development at Mintek. He worked as Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at Technikon Northern Gauteng (now called Tshwane University of Technology) and University of Venda. In 2004 he was appointed Director: Quality Assurance at Border Technikon (now called Walter Sisulu University). He was the Director: Quality Assurance at the University of Venda until he joined University of Kwa-Zulu Natal as the Director Quality Promotion & Assurance in July 2010, part of his responsibility was to lead the World University Rankings project. He served as member of Umalusi Council and also as Chairperson of Lovedale FET College Audit Committee. He is currently the Chairperson of DST/MINTEK Nanotechnology Innovation Centre Steering Committee. He served as a member of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Manager’s Forum and also chaired and facilitated various workshops on quality assurance in higher education. He is also serving as an academic committee member of QS World Ranking Universities. He did the post-doctoral training in Analytical Chemistry at Indiana University. He presented his research work in more than 19 international conferences and published in credible journals.

Quality Assurance at Border Technikon

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ismail Murat Palabiyik graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ankara and obtained PhD from Department of Analytical Chemistry, Facult of Pharmacy, University of Ankara. Currently, he is working in same department. His current researches are synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, DNA – drug interactions, investigating of anticancer effects of natural plant compounds, developing analytical techniques for drug analysis from dosage forms and biological fluids using with capillary electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, spectrofluorimetry and UV spectrophotometry. Beside this, for investigating effects of experimental factors on analysis in HPLC and CE methods, he utilized Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Also, he is specialized in chemometry and worked one year in department of pharmacology and studied diabetes treatment. He is a Visiting Scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Pharmacy, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Analysis and worked with Professor Jos Hoogmartens group in liquid chromatographic column characterization. During his MSc and PhD period, he took a fellowship from TÜBİTAK – BİDEB, The Scientific Research and Technological Council of Turkey. His PhD thesis was awarded by University of Ankara. He is an editorial member of Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta and Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs:Open Access. He is a reviewer for journals like Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Journal of AOAC International, Talanta, Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Techonogies, Spectrochimica Acta Part A.

1. Synthesis and Characteriztion of Nanoparticles, DNA – Drug interactions. 2. Investigation of anticancer effect of natural plant compounds. 3. Drug Analysis in Dosage Forms and Biological Samples: Development and validation of new analysis methods for simultaneous determination of drug mixture using capillary electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry. 4. Chemometry: Simultaneous determination and analysis of drug mixture using chemometric techniques (Classical Least Squares, Inverse Least Squares, Principal Component Regression, Partial Least Squares. 5. Method Optimization: Using statistical and mathematical techniques (Response Surface Methodology, Artifical Neural Network, etc.) for developing, improving and optimizing processes and interpreting the relationship between response and factor effects.

Joon Myong Song received his PhD in 1997 at Kyushu University, in Japan. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 1998 to 2004 at Iowa State University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in United States. At present, he is a Professor and Head of Department of Pharmacy at College of Pharmacy School, Seoul National University in South Korea. His research area includes multifunctional nanoparticle for diagnosis and therapy and high-content cell-based drug screening and diagnosis using hyper-multicolor cellular imaging. He has published 84 peer reviewed papers in the top journals, 7 book chapters, and 10 patents.

multifunctional nanoparticle for diagnosis