Pharma Industry and Medical Devices

Nira Ben-Jonathan, Ph.D, is professor of cancer biology, the University of Cincinnati. She published 165 manuscripts, edited one book, and contributed 12 chapters to textbooks and encyclopedias. She studies breast and head and neck cancer and human obesity. She has mentored 65 students, fellows, research scientists and assistant professors, and served on many editorial boards and committees of scientific societies. She was awarded the NIH Research Career Development Award, was elected Fellow of AAAS, elected Chairman of Gordon Research Conference, and received the Rieveschl Award for Outstanding Research. She has been a member and chairman on numerous study sections.

Cancer Biology

Dr. Saharan has MS in Life Sciences (JNU); Ph.D in medicine (WVU) & Post Doc. (Stanford University).He has several International Publications

New Drug Discovery Programme of Department of Science & Technology

Michael Gietl is the Global Product Manager – Process and Research Cleaners for the Life Sciences Division of STERIS Corporation (Mentor, OH). He currently provides Product Management, marketing and application support related to Process Cleaners including field support, site audits, training presentations and educational seminars. Michael has more than 15 years of industry experience in a cGMP regulated environment holding positions in Quality and Validation. Michael has specific experience working in the quality unit of bulk active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing with direct experience in the development and validation of analytical test methods and the validation of process cleaning methods. He has presented on the topics of Cleaning Validation and Sterility Assurance globally. Michael earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO and an M.B.A. from the University of Missouri in St. Louis, MO. He also holds certifications as a Six Sigma Green Belt and Quality Manager

Development and validation of analytical test methods and the validation of process cleaning methods

Dr. Sugapriya Dhanasekaran has completed her PhD at the age of 27 years from University of Madras and postdoctoral studies from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, School of Biotechnology. She worked as a Scientist in IIT- Madras, and currently working as an Assistant Professor at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA. She has published more than 23 papers and chapters in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed international journals

Pharmaceutical Industry

Dr. Csaba Hetenyi is Senior Researcher at the MTA-ELTE Molecular Biophysics Research Group. He is a qualified chemist and a PhD in Pharmacy. He has co-authored research articles in prestigious journals such as J Am Chem Soc, PNAS, EMBO Reports, Bioinformatics, received more than 1500 citations for his research results, and has a H-index of 18. His works were favorably evaluated by several review articles. Dr. Hetenyi’s research is focused on computational and medicinal chemistry, structural bioinformatics, pharmacoinformatics, and molecular pathomechanisms of diseases. Presently, he is a principal investigator of a team of three PhD and one BSc students

computational and medicinal chemistry, structural bioinformatics, pharmacoinformatics, and molecular pathomechanisms of diseases.

Giovanni Tabacco has completed his PhD in Economics in November 2012 from University of East Anglia. He is Assistant Professor of Economics at Swansea University School of Management with research interests in industrial organization, in particular in competition economics and competition policy. He has published in leading international peer reviewed journals as Economics Letters and Journal of Competition Law and Economics. His research covers a wide range of topics such as market concentration and competition in the US airline industry; competition, market structure and service quality in banking; impact of competition on innovation in banking and manufacturing industries; and cartels.

Research interests in Industrial organization, in particular in competition economics and competition policy

Dr Siegfried Schmitt has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry in roles covering manufacturing and Quality Control and Quality Assurance to consulting roles for a wide range of products, processes and systems. Specific areas of interest are competitive compliance, Quality by Design and agile Quality Management Systems. Dr Schmitt is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chartered Chemist and Chartered Scientist. He has published widely in various journals and has been the editor of various journals and books. He is also a member of various industry associations

competitive compliance, Quality by Design and agile Quality Management Systems

Amna is with the Al Nil College for Medical Sciences,Faculty of Pharmacy, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Pharmacology