Program Committee

Hosting Organization
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Dalian Sub-Council

Operating Organization
BIT Group Global Ltd.

 

Executive Chair
Mr. Yusong Chen, Chairman of Zhen-Ao Group Co., Ltd., China
Dr. Xiaodan Mei, President of BIT Congress Inc., China

 

Scientific Advisory Board and Session Chairs
Dr. Adelene Perkins, CEO, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, USA
Dr. Adisorn Ratanaphan, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani, Professor, Senior Medical Analyst, USA
Dr. Ahmed M. Safwat, Professor, Queen's Laboratory for Advanced Wireless Networks Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Queen's University Kingston, Canada
Dr. Alexander F. Burnett, Professor, Chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Dr. Alison M Pilsner, Senior Account Executive, National Cancer Institute, USA
Dr. Ana B. Oton, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology. Thoracic Malignancies Program, University of Colorado Cancer Center, USA
Dr. Beiyun Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA
Dr. Bernd Gruhn, Assistant Medical Director, Department of Pediatrics, University of Jena, Germany
Dr. Brad Thompson, President and CEO, Oncolytics Biotech Inc., Canada
Dr. Bo Hang, Staff Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, USA
Dr. Caifu Chen, Scientific Fellow, Sr. Director, Genomic Assays R&D, Molecular Biology Systems Division, Life Technologies, USA
Dr. Charles J Vecht, Professor, The Hague Medical Center, the Netherlands
Dr. Charlie Chen, Professor, Natural Science Division, Alderson-Broaddus College, USA
Dr. Chiayeng Wang, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr. Chih-Hsiung Wu, Superintendent, Clinical Professor, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Dr. Christian Ensinger, Professor, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Christopher Heeschen, Professor, Stem Cells & Cancer Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain
Dr. Daniel Laskowski, Senior Principal Research Engineer, Director, Advanced Physiology Core, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Dr. Danny Dhanasekaran, Professor, Deputy Director, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center - Stephenson Cancer Center, USA
Dr. Efraim Idelevich, Gastro-Intestinal Unit, Institute of Oncology, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Esther Una Cidon, Oncology Department, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Dr. Ezio Bombardelli, President of Scientific Board, Indena S.p.a, Italy
Dr. Francisco Harrison, Founder and CEO, Harrison Clinical Research, USA
Dr. Gary Rankin, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, USA
Dr. Gary Stoner, Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Dr. Gokul Das, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Center for Genetics and Pharmacology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA
Dr. Grace Yeh, Scientific Coordinator, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, USA
Dr. Guangdi Wang, Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana, USA
Dr. H. Leon Bradlow, Professor, Strang Cancer Research Laboratory, USA
Dr. Helge Werner Taubert, Professor, Molecular Urology, Clinic of Urology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Dr. Herwig Kostron, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Hiroyuki Shinchi, School of Health Sciences, Kagoshima University, Japan
Dr. Hu Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Dr. Ioannis Kanellos, Professor, Fourth Department of Surgery, Aristotle University, Greece
Dr. Jay J. Mamel, Professor, Chief, Nutrition Section, Digestive Diseases & Nutrition, University of South Florida, USA
Dr. Jian-Xin Gao, Professor, Renji Clinical Stem Cell Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Canada
Dr. Jihe Zhao, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, USA
Dr. Johannes Haybaeck, Professor, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Dr. John B. Lowe, Professor, Head, School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Iowa, USA
Dr. Jonathan Lewis, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman, ZIOPHARM Oncology, USA
Dr. Jianwei Zhou, Professor & Director, Graduate School, Nanjing Medical University, China
Dr. Kailash Chadha, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA
Dr. Karl Reinhard Aigner, Head of Oncologic Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Medias Klinik GmbH & Co KG, Ransbach-Baumbach, Germany
Dr. Kequan (Kevin) Zhou, Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Science, Wayne State University, USA
Dr. King-Thom Chung, Professor, The University of Memphis, USA
Dr. Lee-may Chen, Associate Professor, Endowed Chair in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, USA
Dr. Lixin Zhang, Technical Leader, Almac Discovery, UK
Dr. Luc Mortelmans, Professor, President of the Belgian Society of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Belgium
Dr. Luciano Mutti, Head of Department of Medicine, Laboratory of Clinical Oncology, Local Health Unit 11, Vercelli General Hospital, Italy
Dr. Lucy Liu, Research Fellow, City of Hope National Medical Center, USA
Dr. Luigi Chieco-Bianchi, Professor, Department of Oncology and Medical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Luminita Paraoan, Reader, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences University of Liverpool, UK
Dr. Masahide Takahashi, Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Dr. Meiyun Fan, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Dr. Michael Andreeff, Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr. Michael J. Lind, Professor, Postgraduate Medical Institute of the University of Hull, UK
Dr. Min-Hsiung Pan, Professor, Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan
Dr. Min-Liang Kuo, Professor, Graduate Institute of Toxicology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
Dr. Mohamed M. Sayed-Ahmed, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohammad R. Torabi, Interim Dean/Chancellor’s Professor, Indiana University, USA
Dr. Mohammed Asif Chaudry, MA BM BCh Oxon MRCS(Eng) FRCS(Gen.Surg.), Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK
Dr. Paul J. Davis, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College, Director, Ordway Research Institute, USA
Dr. Paul Lin, Associate Professor, City of Hope National Medical Center Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Surgery, USA
Dr. Paul S. Rooney, Consultant, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Royal Liverpool University Hospital National Health Service Trust, UK
Dr. Pavel Vodicka, Head, Department of molecular biology of cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Science of Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Dr. Peng Lee, Associate Professor of Pathology and Urology, New York University School of Medicine, Director, Molecular Pathology, New York Harbor Healthcare System, USA
Dr. Peter H. Norman, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical and Palliative Care, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr. Peter P. Chou, Director of Scientific Affair, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, USA
Dr. Peter Wuerl, Professor, General and Viszeral Surgery, Diakonie-Hospital Halle, Halle/Saale, Germany
Dr. Philip Eng, Professor, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Dr. Pierre Vogel, Professor, Laboratory of Glycochemistry and Asymmetric Synthesis, Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Dr. Rachna Shroff, Senior Fellow, UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr. Ralf Herwig, Associate Professor, Department of Urology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Rosanne Carol Harrigan, Professor, Chair, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Director of Faculty Development, Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, University of Hawaii, USA
Dr. Ru Chih C. Huang, Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dr. Ryu-Ichiro Hata, Distinguished Professor, Director, Oral Health Science Research Center, Kanagawa Dental College, Japan
Dr. S.Ashraf Imam, Director of the Molecular Pathology Program, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, USA
Dr. Sanjeev K Baniwal, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California，USA
Dr. Simona Gurzu, Professor, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu-Mures, Romania
Dr. Sen-Yung Hsieh, Professor, Liver Research Unit, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Dr. Shuen-Kuei Liao, Professor and Director, Cancer Immunotherapy Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Dr. Steffen Leinung, Professor, Park-Krankenhaus Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Stella M. Pezzotto, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Institute of Immunology, Argentina
Dr. Stuart Calderwood, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Radiation Oncology, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Susan Y. Chon, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr. Theresia Thalhammer, Professor, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology, and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Thomas J. Slaga, Professor of Pharmacology, Deputy Director, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
Dr. Todd Swanson, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Dr. Tommy Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Wisconsin, USA
Dr. Vera Hirsh, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, McGill University Health Center,  Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada
Dr. Wayne Tam, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA
Dr. Wenle Xia, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Dr. Wen-Tien Chen, Research Professor, Stony Brook University, USA
Dr. Wickii T. Vigneswaran, Professor, Associate Chief, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Director, Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation, University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
Dr. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
Dr. Ximiing Yang, Professor of Pathology, Chief of Urologic Pathology, Director of Urological Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Yaguang Xi, Assistant Professor, Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama, USA
Dr. Yang Wang, Pstdoctoral Rsearch Fllow, Department of Medicine/Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Dr. Ye Fang, Senior Research Manager, Biochemical Technologies, Science and Technology Division, Corning Incorporated, USA
Dr. Yih-Sheng Yang, Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Dr. Yoshifumi Takei, Associate Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Dr. Yuan-Soon Ho, Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taiwan
Dr. Yuesheng Jin, Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital, Sweden
Dr. Yufeng Li, Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Dr. Yvon E. Cayre, Professor, ScreenCell, France
Dr. Ying-Jan Wang, Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University, Medical College, Taiwan
Dr. Yu-Jia Chang, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Dr. Yu Sun, Professor, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China