Dr. Albert is a Research Chair at the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute and Lakehead University. He is Director of MRI Research, Director of the Hyperpolarized Gas MRI Laboratory, a Scientist at TBRRI, and Professor of Chemistry at Lakehead University. Prior to this he was Associate Professor of Radiology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Albert is one of the inventors and pioneers of hyperpolarized gas MRI, and holds 9 patents on its development. He received the United States Presidential Award from President Clinton for this invention and received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dr. Albert's primary research focus is on applying HP helium-3 and HP xenon-129 MRI to image ventilation function in the airways and alveoli of the lungs. In addition, his group has been developing the following innovative imaging technologies: (1) HP xenon-129 functional MRI (xenon fMRI) of the brain; (2) HP xenon fMRI of stroke and traumatic brain injury; (3) HP xenon biosensor MR imaging of breast tumours; (4) HP xenon biosensor MRI for early detection of lung cancer; and (5) HP xenon biosensor MRI for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.

Stephen Hanessian, OC, FRSC is a chemist and professor of Canadian and United States citizenship born on April 25, 1935 in Alexandria, Egypt. His research group at Université de Montréal is well known for developing synthetic methodologies, as well as natural product total synthesis. In addition, his group developed Chiron, a computer program used by organic chemists for synthetic planning. He earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1960, under the direction of M. L. Wolfrom. He worked as a researcher for Parke-Davis & Co. in Ann Arbor, Michigan until 1968. In 1969 he joined Université de Montréal. Since 2000, he is also an adjunct professor at University of California, Irvine.

Total synthesis of natural products - Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design - New synthetic methods - Asymmetric Synthesis - Chemistry and biological implications of the glycosidic linkage - Amino acids, peptides and mimics - Molecular Architecture and Recognition - Computer Assisted Chemistry

Jianhua Hao obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. After working at Penn State University, University of Guelph, and the University of Hong Kong, Jianhua Hao joined the faculty in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Jianhua Hao has published more than 190 SCI articles, including Chem. Soc. Rev., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, etc. He was also invited to give a number of keynote/invited lectures in various international conferences.

His research interests include advanced materials for electronic, photonic and biomedicine applications.

Jas Pal Badyal was awarded BA/MA (1985) and PhD (1988) degrees from Cambridge University; where he subsequently held a King’s College Fellowship and the Oppenheimer Fellowship. In 1996 he was promoted to Full Professor at Durham University. He has 171 publications and 37 patents. Notable honours include the Harrison Prize, The Royal Society of Chemistry; the Burch Prize, The British Vacuum Council; and the IAAM Medal, International Association of Advanced Materials.

His research has led to 3 successful start-up companies: Surface Innovations Ltd; Dow Corning Plasma Ltd; and P2i Ltd (2015 International Business Award for 'Most Innovative Company in Europe').

Dr. Prabagaran Narayanasamy is a faculty member in the Department of pathology and microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He received his Ph. D at IIT in Organic Chemistry working on asymmetric synthesis and did his postdoctoral studies at North Dakota State University working on beta amino acids and free radicals, Harvard University and University of Illinois Urbana-champaign working on palladium chemistry. Later, he joined as a Research Scientist at Colorado State University to explore drug discovery in M. tb. He has been a faculty at University of Nebraska Medical Center since 2012.

Dr. Narayanasamy’s research interests are on development, delivering and discovering drug for anti-microbial medicine and antiretroviral therapy. He is also exploring in use of conventional drugs and new inhibitors in nanoformulation to generate active nanomedicine. For antibacterial drug discovery - glyoxalase, quorum sensing, MEP and menaquinone pathway are utilized. Recently, He started a drug discovery program to reduce aging and autism spectrum disorder. He has funding from NE and NIH. Also member in study sections and American Societies.

Luísa Margarida Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1966. She got her Graduation in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry (with Distinction) from the same University in 1996. In 2015, she got the Habilitation in Chemistry from University of Lisbon. She was appointed (1996) as Adjunct Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She is also the Vice-President of the said Department. She is Researcher (Core Member) at Centro de Química Estrutural (Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Group) of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, since 1992. and member of the Research Core Team and of the Executive Committee of the PhD programme - Catalysis and Sustainability (CATSUS, 2014-2018).

Design of functionalized C-scorpionates; Activation, by transition metal centres, of C-scorpionates and water-soluble phosphines; Synthesis of new biomimetic transition metal complexes and search for their applications in catalysis, medicinal and environmental chemistry; Aqueous chemistry: synthetic and catalytic processes in aqueous media; hydrosoluble bioactive and catalytic materials.

Dr Martin Mkandawire, is a chemist and currently the Industrial Research Chair for Mine Water Management at the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment of Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia. His research activities are around mine water remediation and management with a goal to develop cost-effective strategies; and his research interests are, intra alia, in biophotonics and photochemistry of organometallic compounds, development of devices with improved energetics using bio-inspire design and bio-mimicked processes like improving energy conversion efficiency using bio-inspired design and architecture of devices in organic solar cell. Before joining Cape Breton University in 2013, Prof. Dr. Mkandawire was based at Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany for close to 20 years, and he served the last five years as Privatdozent (associate professor) of Environmental Nanotechnology in Institute of Materials Science and Institute of General Ecology and Environmental Protection.

Environmental Nanotechnology, Mine Water Management.

Anton V. Dolzhenko received his degree in Pharmacy and PhD degree in Medicinal Chemistry from Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy (Russia). After working at National University of Singapore (2004-2010) he continued his academic career at Curtin University (Australia) as Senior Lecturer. In 2013, he joined Monash University Malaysia where he leads Medicinal Chemistry group and serves as Director of NMR Campus Infrastructure Platform. Dr. Dolzhenko’s current research interests include synthetic and structural aspects of chemistry of nitrogen heterocycles. Actively working on development of new methods for synthesis of potentially bioactive compounds, he published more than 90 journal papers and book chapters.

Medicinal Chemistry,

Rafat M Mohareb is Head of Organic Chemistry department Faculty of Pharmacy Modern Sciences and Arts University Professor of Organic Chemistry at Department of Chemistry faculty of Science Giza, Egypt. He got his Ph D Organic Chemistry on 1984 Cairo university Full professor of Organic chemistry 1994 Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley University State of California USA from 1999- 2002 Visiting Professor At Kuwait University 19951996. He was Humboldt fellows in Germany in 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2009. He received the price of encouragement of research work from Egypt 1995. He published more than 108 Scientific publications in International journals. He Supervised more than 5 PhD M Sc Theses.

Synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds with different pharmaceutical uses. Heterocyclizations of some Human Hormones followed by application of the synthesized compounds in Medicinal chemistry.Synthesis new dyes and their applications towards different fabrics.Recently his research focused on synthesizing antitumor agents.