4^th European Chemistry Congress May 11-13, 2017 Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Janis Gravitis gained his PhD and DocSci from the the fomer USSR Academy of Science. Author and co-author of more than 300 scientific publications. Visiting Professor at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 1996–2000 Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science Foreign Member of the International Research Centre for Sustainable Materials (Tokyo) Head of the Laboratory of Biomass Eco-Efficient Conversation, Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry - recently.

Wood Chemistry, Biomass Eco-Efficient Conversation, Green Chemistry

1978 and 1999 has completed his Ph.D and D.Sci. at the ages of 33 and 54 years from Zelinsky Instiute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia and Durmishidze Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Tbilisi, Georgia, respectively. 2006 up to date he is the head of laboratory of plant biopolymers at the Tbilisi State Medical University Institute of Pharmacochemistry. 1996 and 2002 he has been a visiting scientist at Utrecht University (faculty of pharmacy), The Netherlands, by University Scholarship and The Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO) Scholarship Scientific Program, respectively. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.

Biochemistry, biotechnology,biopolymers, Pharmacochemistry and pharmacy

Maia Merlani has completed her PhD at the age of 27 years from Tbilisi State University. She is Senior Research Scientist at Tbilisi State Medical University and at the same time holds a position of an associate professor at Caucasian International University. Her field of interest is a chemistry and synthesis of natural compounds. She is the author of more than 45 papers in reputed journals and presentations at 55 international scientific conferences. She was granted Georgian Presidential scholarship for young scientists (1997), NATO scholarship (2002) and Matstumae International foundation scholarship (2013).

Chemistry and synthesis of natural compounds

Radovan Buffa has completed his PhD in 2002 from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and postdoctoral studies from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Last 7 years he is the head of the Department of Chemical modification in the Contipro Pharma Company, Czech Republic. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and he is author/co-author of more than 20 patents.

Chemistry and Pharmacy

Andreia Valente obtained her PhD in 2010 from the Université de Lille I (France) in the field of Polymerization Catalysis. Since 2013, she is an Assistant Researcher at the BioOrganometallic Group at Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), where she develops her independent research based on new polymer-metal complexes as targeted drug-delivery systems in view to cancer therapy. She has published about 20 papers in reputed journals, is a Fulbright awardee, is member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and participates actively in European networks.

Polymerization Catalysis and Chemistry

Daniel T Gryko obtained his PhD from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1997, under the supervision of Prof. J. Jurczak. After a Postdoctoral stay with Prof. J. Lindsey at North Carolina State University (1998–2000), he started his independent career in Poland. He became Full Professor in 2008. The same year he received the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Young Investigator Award. His current research interests are focused on the synthesis of various functional dyes as well as on two-photon absorption, artificial photosynthesis, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer and fluorescence probes.

Organic Chemistry

Halina Abramczyk has completed his PhD from Technical University of Łódź, Poland, postdoctoral studies from Bielefeld University, Germany, and habilitation from Technical University of Łódź. She is the director of Laboratory of Laser Molecular Spectroscopy, Łódź University of Technology. He has published more than 190 papers in reputed journals, 7 books or chapters in books and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Molecular Liquids. She has received a number of awards including the Marie Curie Excellence Chair, Fulbright, DAAD. She is a President of Polish Fulbright Alumni Association. She was a head of Marie Curie Excellence Chair, Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Laser Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Liquids

Ionel I Mangalagiu is a Professor in department of Organic Chemistry at “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania

Biologically active molecules, Chemosensors and Organic Chemistry

Dr. Feng is an expert in biochemistry and biophysics of metalloproteins. His laboratory is known for its use of multidisciplinary approaches to study molecular mechanisms of metalloproteins in medicine and toxicology. The laboratory is active in the use of cutting-edge approaches across the broad fields of chemistry, biochemistry, physics and chemical biology (including laser flash photolysis, pulsed EPR, computational chemistry and site-directed mutagenesis). The goal is to understand what the function of a biological relevant metal site is, how it goes about to achieve its function, and what factors dictate its function. His current primary research focus is on regulation mechanism of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), a flavo-hemoprotein responsible for biosynthesis of nitric oxide (NO), a ubiquitous signaling and effector molecule in mammalian cell biology. Recent studies of NOS proteins by Dr. Feng demonstrate that domain motions and interdomain docking play an important role in NOS isoform function by modulating key electron transfer processes. Molecular mechanisms of NOS regulation, once fully understood, are potentially key targets for development of selective new pharmaceuticals for treating a wide range of diseases that currently lack effective treatments. Dr. Feng has published more than 70 scientific manuscripts, is an active NIH reviewer and also serves as referee for NSF, AHA, the French National Research Agency and the Italian Ministry of Health.

Biochemistry, Biophysics and toxicology

Marc Le Borgne has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Nantes Atlantic University after Pharmacy studies (6 years). He is the director of EA 4446 B2C, a research group dedicated to Drug Design and Structural Optimization. He has published more than 61 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry (2009-2012) and Current Bioactive Compounds (2008). He gave some invited lectures abroad (Saarbrück, Oslo, Tromsø, Bergen, Debrecen, Sacramento, Helsinki, Oulu). He is developing bioactive small molecules (e.g. kinases and CYP inhibitors).

Drug Design and Structural Optimization.

Linghai Xie is a Professor of Organic/Polymer Materials Chemistry at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT). He obtained his PhD from Fudan University in June 2006. After this, he joined Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) and become a leader of the center for molecular systms & organic devices (CMSOD). He won the “NSFC Award” for Excellent Young Scholar in 2013. His research activities focus on Molecular Installing Technology (MIT), Attractor-Repulsor Theory (ART), Polygrid Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors, Organic Electrets for Memories and Memristors. He has published more than 130 papers in reputed journals and has been cited more than 1700 times.

Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Materials Chemistry

Luc Jaeger has completed his PhD from the University of Strasbourg in 1993, and Postdoctoral studies from Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. He joined the faculty of the University of California Santa Barbara in 2002. He has been a visiting Professor at the National Cancer Institute, and he has held a ULP-NIBH (National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology and Information Services) grant for work in Japan. He served as a member of the John Templeton Foundation board of advisors from 2011 to 2013. He has contributed to more than seventy papers published in scientific journals.

Bioscience, bionanotechnology and synthetic biology.

Silvia Antonia Brandán is a Faculty Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy, in Inorganic Chemistry Institute, University National of Tucumán (UNT), Tucumán, Argentina. She is Graduated in Chemistry (UNT); Chemical Engineer (UNT); PhD in Chemistry (UNT); Post-Doctorate in Alicante University, Spain. She is the Titular Professor of General Chemistry and Director of the Inorganic Chemistry Institute. She is the Editor Journal of Molecular Structure.

Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmacy

Violina T Angelova has completed his PhD in 2004 from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Sofia, Bulgaria. She is an Assistant Professor of Medical University of Sofia, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Chemistry. She has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals.

Organic Chemistry, Pharmacy

Daniel T. Gryko obtained his PhD from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1997, under the supervision of Prof. J. Jurczak. After a post-doctoral stay with Prof. J. Lindsey at North Carolina State University (1998–2000), he started his independent career in Poland. He became Full Professor in 2008. The same year he received the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Young Investigator Award. His current research interests are focused on the synthesis of various functional dyes as well as on two-photon absorption, artificial photosynthesis, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer and fluorescence probes.

Artificial photosynthesis, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer and fluorescence probes and Organic Chemistry