9^th Euro-Global Summit on Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology June 22-24, 2017 Paris, France

Philip Wexler is a Technical Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) and federal liaison to the Toxicology Education Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three editions of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Elsevier. 3rd ed. 2014), four editions of Information Resources in Toxicology (Elsevier. 4th ed. 2009), Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2011), and the Taylor and Francis journal, Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy. He is also overseeing an Elsevier monographic series on Toxicology History. Two volumes on Toxicology in Antiquity have been published and a follow-up on Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is scheduled for publication in March, 2017. He is a recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical Achievement and the US Society of Toxicology’s Public Communications Award.

Toxicoinformatics, including online database building, enhancing, and searching, Toxicology Education and Communication, Toxicology History

Pierre Eftekhari has completed his PhD from Strasbourg University. He has more than 19 years of experience in Drug Development and is the President of Inoviem Scientific, a company dedicated to cutting edge solutions in drug development. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and filed several patents.

Drug Development, Drug Discovery, Toxicology

Eric Ezan studied Biological Engineering at the University of Compiegne, France. After a first experience at the University of Waterloo (Ontario), he obtained a PhD degree at the University Paris V in Pharmacological Sciences (1989). He then joined the Institute Pasteur of Paris for two-year Post-doctoral experience. He was recruited by the CEA (Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) in 1991, where he became the Head of the Laboratory for Drug Metabolism at the CEA in 2000. This laboratory located at Saclay, south of Paris, is involved in the development of immunological methods and mass spectrometry for the discovery of biomarkers and quantification of small molecular weight drugs and biologicals for preclinical and clinical applications. The laboratory also became a leader in the use of mass spectrometry approaches for the detection biological weapons. In 2014, he joined the CEA Program for the development of health technology.

Drug Metabolism, Biomarkers, Pre-clinical and Clinical Studies

Farhan Sahito is a Senior Project Manager for the SIIP EU funded project (Speaker Identification Integrated Project) at INTERPOL. Mr. Sahito has done his Ph.D. in at Graz University of Technology Austria. His research aims to advance Cyber Crime detection methods for the protection of infrastructures and e-businesses from financially, politically and socially incentivized cyber threats. He has done Master's in Information Technology from Pakistan and Master's in Criminology from University of Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Sahito has been working with Pakistan police since 2002. Before joining INTERPOL as a Senior Project Manager, he was working as Deputy Director in Cyber Crime Department in the Federal Investigation Agency Pakistan.

His research interests include cybercrime, law enforcement, digital forensic investigations, biometrics, financial investigation

José Fernando Santos Almeida is a Psychiatrist and completed his PhD from Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (Universidade do Porto). He is a Professor and President of Scientifi c Council of Instituto Universitário da Maia and Editor-Chief of Psiquiatria, Psicologia & Justiça.

Toxicology, Psychiatry

Plant physiologist, B. Schoefs graduated from the Botany Department at the Liège University, Belgium in 1994. He worked for the Liège University, the South Bohemia University, the CNRS. He became Professor in Plant Physiology at the University of Dijon, France. In 2011, he joined the University of Le Mans, France. He is the leader of the ‘Metabolism and engineering of microalgal molecules and applications’ research group. He has published more than 70 papers, edited books, monographies and special issues. He is a member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Plant Science, Communicative and Integrative Biology and Botany Letters. He won the Prize Clos from the Toulouse Academy of Sciences, France and the annual scientific competition of the Belgian Academy of Science.

His research is focuses on the physiological (photosynthesis, respiration), biochemical (carbon metabolism, pigments) and molecular responses (transcription factors) of photosynthetic organisms, including algae, to biotic or abiotic stresses.

Anna Radominska Pandya serves as a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UAMS; and she is the Editor in Chief for Drug Metabolism Review. She received her PhD from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. She has published 175 papers in various peer-reviewed journals, and she has received twelve R01 grants from the NIH and DoD. Her research interests include: The regulation and suppression of human UGTs and their role as anti-proliferative agents in cancer models, the interactions between UGTs and cannabinoid receptors, the delivery of UGT genes and drugs into cancer cells using nanomaterial, and the roles of UGTs in the biotransformation of drugs including resveratrols and drugs of abuse such as marijuana and synthetic cannabinoids.

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Drug Metabolism, Toxicology and Biotransformation

Yazan Akkam has completed his PhD from University of Arkansas and Post-doctoral studies on Nanotoxicity from Institute for Nanosciences and Engineering, Arkansas. He is the Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Yarmouk University, Jordan. Also, he is a Member of the National Committee for the Management of Nanomaterials- Ministry of Environment, Jordan.

Nano Toxicology, Nano-sciences and Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Manju Sharma is an MD and Doctor of Naturopathy working currently as a Scientist at Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, Canada for the last 10 years. Prior to this, she worked in the Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, VGH for 10 years on various projects including molecular diagnosis of tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, human solid tumors, kidney disorders, medicinal herbal plants like Echinacea which is widely used all over Europe and North America for the treatment of cough and cold: Active principles and their mode of action on various human viral and bacterial diseases. She has published over 75 papers in medical journals and has made several presentations in the fi eld of Medicine.

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Herbal Medicines, Toxicology

Stefano Bonassi is a Doctor in Biological Sciences - University of Genova and a Specialist in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology - University of Pavia. He is a Faculty for PhD programs in Human Genetics of the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, and M2E2 International courses of Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases at the Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is a reviewer of many journals such as Experimental Research; Mutagenesis; Cancer Epidemiology; Biomarkers & Prevention et al.

Cancer Epidemiology, Toxicology, Biomarkers, Nano Toxicology

Swamy K B has been awarded PhD by Andhra University, India. He has taken his Master’s Degree i.e., MS (in Clinical Anatomy) from Andhra Medical College, India. He took his Medical Degree (MBBS) in 1976. He is specialized in Human Genetics and Herbal Medicine. He has conducted many researches on Herbal Medicine and Diabetes and “Brain size and Intelligence Quotient (IQ)” on which he has conducted researches and has published more than 25 research papers in high impact factor indexed international journals. He is a founder Anatomist for many Medical Universities in Malaysia. He is the former Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy for many Medical Schools in India and Malaysia. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member for many reputed journals.

Clinical Toxicology, Herbal Medicine, Diabetes, Human Genetics

Vesna Matovic has completed her PhD at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is Head of Department of Toxicology “Akademik Danilo Soldatovic” and President of Serbian Society of Toxicology. She has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member and reviewer.

Toxicology and Pharmacology

Marcelo L. Larramendy, Ph.D., serves as Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the School of Natural Sciences and Museum (National University of La Plata, Argentina). Appointed Senior Researcher of the National Scientific and Technological Research Council of Argentina. Former Member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Association of Environmental Mutagenesis, Teratogenesis and Carcinogenesis. Author of more than 470 contributions, including scientific publications, research communications and conferences worldwide. Recipient of several national and international awards. Prof. Larramendy is a regular Lecturer at the international A. Hollaender Courses organized by the IAEMS and former guest scientist at NIH (USA) and University of Helsinki, (Finland). He is expert in Genetic Toxicology and is, or has been, referee for more than 30 international scientific journals. Member of the International Panel of Experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, WHO, Lyon, France) in 2015 for the evaluation of DDT, 2,4-D and Lindane. Presently, Prof. Dr. Larramendy is Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Genotoxicology at the UNLP.

Genotoxicity, Teratogenesis, Carcinogenesis, Molecular Cytogenetcis, Genetic Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Friday E Uboh completed his PhD from University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria, and is presently an Associate Professor of Biochemistry, with Toxicology as his area of research interest. He served as the acting Head of Biochemistry Department in the Department of Biochemistry University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria, from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Public Analysts of Nigeria. He has more than 60 papers published in reputable journals, and is a reviewer and Editorial Board Member of many journals of repute. He has also presented many conference papers locally and internationally.

Biochemistry, Toxicology and Molecular Biology, Toxicology

Dr. Izaskun Larrieta-Rubín de Celis has been lecturer at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) since 2009. Prior to this, she had worked as managing director for 17 years in a SME involved in technology innovation and software development. Her primary research interests deal with CSR and gender equality. She has defended her doctoral thesis on ‘The Management of Gendered Social Responsibility: the establishment of a framework and the implementation in companies committed to gender equality’. She has been involved in a project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Equality researching good gender practices in most gender committed Spanish companies. She has published on Gendered Social Responsibility and has proven commitment to interdisciplinary research linking CSR, gender studies, health and safety issues and corporate governance.

Her research interest includes Occupational Toxicology and Health, CSR, gender issues in workplace