Biography
Dr. Brij. M. Gandhi, M.Sc.(Biochemistry) and Ph.D.(Experimental Medicine, Norway) is presently CEO and founder of Neo BioMed Services (www.neobiomed.com), providing services and consultancy in health areas and regulatory issues related to biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, including stem cell and regenerative medicine. As Adviser to the Government of India, Dr. Gandhi was involved in management, promotion and policy issues in biotechnology related to international collaborations, medical biotechnology including stem cells and regenerative medicine, infrastructure development, animals and aquaculture biotechnology, biosafety and biosecurity. Prior to that he was Research Scientist at AIIMS, New Delhi working on immunology of parasitic, bacterial and viral infections including amoebic diseases; hepatitis; liver diseases; IVD; food and nutritional health issues. Dr. Gandhi was trained at MIT, USA; LSHTM, London, NIH, USA, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen and University of Bergan, Norway. Dr. Gandhi continues to serve as Advisor / Director to a number of institutions/pharma and biopharma industries with an experience of about 50 years as research scientist, science manager, adviser/consultant and having over 155 publications.
Research Interest
Biopharmaceuticals, Pharmaceuticals, Stem cell, Regenerative medicine, Biotechnology, Immunology.
Biography
Magda Tsolaki was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Medicine (1972-1978) and Theology (1981-1985) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). Afterwards, she initiated her collaboration with AUTh in 1982 as scientific collaborator and a year later received her specialty as a Neuropsychiatrist. She has been a Professor of Neurology since 2010, and currently she is the Head of the 1st University Department of Neurology (since 2017) where she is still committed to her clinical, educational and research work. In 2004, she was invited as a visiting professor at the Boston University, Massachusetts, USA. She has formed the Greek Alzheimer Association in 1995 and the Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in 2007, in which she is up to today the Chair, while also being the scientific director of two Public Dementia Units (founded by her in 2007 and 2009) for outpatients. The last two years she was invited to join as a member the Greek National Observatory for Dementia. In a chair of Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease, she has given more than 516 lectures throughout Greece. She has participated in more than 40 funded research programmes and 31 funded clinical trials. In total, she has received 66 awards. Dr. Tsolaki has been the main author of many Books (53), many abstracts in Greek (531) and International (466) Conferences, she is the first author or co-author in many Papers in Greek (285) and International Journals (451 - 316 in PubMed), (h-index=53, 55, 63 and more than 12146, 12513 and 18628 citations, in Web of Sciences, Scopus, Google Scholar respectively). She has participated as invited speaker in 90 meetings-confernces. Furthermore, she has been a reviewer for Conferences and Journals (330) and has organised 27 national and 5 international conferences on AD. Finally, she was one of the three or seven advisory members for 28 doctoral theses-completed. Her main scientific interest revolves mainly around Neurology, Memory and Dementia, and focused on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and AD, care and management of services for older people, non-pharmaceutical interventions as a form of treatment for MCI and AD patients (such as music, computers, art, dancing, diet, etc.) along with her ever going clinical work with patients.
Research Interest
Neurology and Dementia
Biography
Professor Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of AlmerÃa (Spain) and she was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Granada from 1979 on. Thirty nine years of the teaching and researching experience. She is the Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government, where she has managed and directed several academic and scientific contracts and research projects, as well as a Member of Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER) in Greece, The Academic Genesis Platform (UAGP) in UK&Turkey and Experts of Academic Excellence Research Centre (EAERC) in Jordan; etc. She is author of a many works on several aspects of the Arabic science and literature in the Middle Ages, as well as Arabic language and linguistics. She has also participated in different prestigious international scientific Conferences. She has visited a many universities and academic institutions of Europe, United States and Arab countries in order to teach and research. Among her works, we have the study and the translation to Spanish of some treatises of Kitab al-tasrif´s Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Qutayba´s texts, Maqamas of Al-Hariri, The Sicilian Questions of Ibn Sab´in, etcetera.
Research Interest
Medieval Arabic Science. Humanities. Arabic Philology
