Biography
Koji Matsuoka is professor of material science, graduate school of science and engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan. He received his PhD in Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and immediately joined Synthetic organic chemistry laboratory in RIKEN, Saitama, Japan as a postdoctral fellow. He moved to Department of Functional Materials Science, Saitama University as an assistant professor, where he obteined academic appointments, such as associate professor and ful professor. Dr. Matsuoka’s research focuses on multivalency of natural and synthetic substances. He published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and review articles.
Research Interest
Analytical chemistry, Biochemistry, Synthetic Chemistry
Biography
Richard Gatti is a molecular biologist and geneticist who joined the UCLA School of Medicine faculty in 1974 as full professor. After a pediatric residency at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago (1962-65), and serving as Captain, U.S. Army in Eritrea, Ethiopia (1966-68), he did post-doctoral fellowships with Robert A. Good, MD, PhD, at the University of Minnesota (1968-72) in basic and clinical immunology, and George Klein, MD, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden (1972-75) in tumor biology. He served as Director of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (1974-1980). He joined the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UCLA in 1981. He founded the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (1987) and is co-director. He is also a member of the Department of Human Genetics (2005- _. He is Scientific Director of the Ataxia-Telangiectasia Medical Research Foundation (1984- ) as well as the Neuromuscular Diseases Foundation (2006- ). He was a recipient of a USPHS Research Career Development Award (1972-75) and has been funded by NIH or the Department of Energy since 1967. He has co-authored over 330 scientific articles. He pioneered the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and other treatments for primary immunodeficiencies. His current research focuses on the molecular genetics, diagnostics, radiobiology, and treatment of children with ataxia-telangiectasia, a progressive neurological disease of children.
Research Interest
Molecular Genetics, diagnostics, Radiobiology, and Treatment of children with ataxia-telangiectasia, a progressive Neurological disease of children
Biography
Orkid Coskuner-Weber completed her PhD studies in biophysics and physical chemistry at the University of Cologne in Germany. She worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the Johns Hopkins University and then at Stanford University. She was a research assistant professor at George Mason University and an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Turkish-German University and took a position in Istanbul for opening the Alzheimer´s and Parkinson´s disease research center. She has been working as a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, since 2005.
Research Interest
biophysics, physical chemistry