^2nd Global Summit on Herbals & Natural Remedies October 17-19, 2016 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dr Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie is an Associate Dean for Research Innovation at School of Pharmacy and a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences/Drug Discovery Institute, and a PI of an integrated Medicinal Chemistry Biology laboratory of CompuGroup, BioGroup and ChemGroup (www.CBLigand.org/XieLab) at University of Pittsburgh. He is a charter member of the Science Advisory Board to the US FDA. He is a Founding Director of Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center (www.CBLigand.org/CCGS), and a Director/PI of NIH National Center of Excellence for CDAR (www.CDARCenter.org). He holds joint positions at Dept of Computational Biology and Dept of Structural Biology, and Pitt Cancer Institute MT/DD Program. He is an Editorial Advisory Board member for AAPS Journal and American Journal of Molecular Biology, and Associate Editor of BMC Pharmacology Toxicology. He was a Charter Member of NIH BPNS Study Section, and an ad hoc expert reviewer for UK MRC foundation; the Wellcome Trust Fund; the Netherland Organization for Scientific Research Council; the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship; and the Chinese Natural Science Foundation. He holds/held honorary professorship in top institutes and colleges of pharmacy in China, including Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin Stem Cell Medical Center; Zhejing University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Sun Yat-Sen Univesity and Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an invited International Assessment Panelist for Fudan University, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Association of Professionals in Science and Technology, and a Chair of the CAPST-Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Society. Prof Xie and his team are known for their pioneering research for the development of internationally recognized diseases domain-specific chemogenomics knowledgebases, which is an integrated platform of “Big Data to Knowledge” computational chemogenomics-based target identification and system pharmacology for translational research. His recent work on Alzheimer’s disease specific chemogenomics database (www.CBLigand.org/AD/) was on 2014 coverpage story of a top peer-reviewed ACS journal. The innovation work includes GPU-accelerated cloud computing TargetHunter program for drug target identification (www.CBLigand.org/TargetHunter) (2013 AAPS special theme issue). His lab was the first discovered/patented INK4C-targeting small molecule inhibitors for hematopoietic stem cell expansion (Nature Comm 2015), was the first discovered/patented p62ZZ chemical inhibitors for multiple myeloma (Nature Leukemia 2015), and also reported/patented novel ligands specific to cannabinoid CB2 receptor for osteoporosis and cancers. His invention discovery patents have been successfully licensed out to Biotech/Pharma. Overall, his developed integrated cloud computing knowledgebases help to bridge the knowledge gap between biology and chemistry, and to facilitate target identification, drug repurposing, and system pharmacology analyses in a chemogenomics scale for precision medicine drug discovery. As a result, he is a recipient of 2014 AAPS Award for Outstanding Research Achievements. Dr Xie received MD in Pharmacy from the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai China, PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, and Executive MBA degree, and the Shared Leadership Cohort Development Experience Workshop Training by JPorcari & Associates.

Hawa ZE Jaafar completed her PhD in 1995 from Nottingham University, United Kingdom in the area of Plant Environmental Physiology. She is very active both in environmental manipulation of herbal secondary metabolism research, and in community development of herbal materials and products. Currently, she is the Director of the University Community Transformation Centre (UCTC) UPM, and a member of the National Herbal Implementation Committee. She has published about 150 papers mostly in high impact journals, more than150 other articles in bulletin, monographs, books and chapters, and presented more than 130 papers nationally and abroad. She is very active in professional activities as a President, Vice President, Chief Editor and Editorial Member. She is also very involved in the development of Roadmap of the National Herbal Industry in Malaysia in 2010. She established the Controlled Environment System in Malaysia in 1991, and had assisted Sana’a University Yemen to establish the Protected Agriculture Centre (2006-2010).

Environmental manipulation of herbal secondary metabolism research and Community development of herbal materials and products

Zhou is presently a Professor, Associate Vice President of Global Medical Development, Associate Dean of International Research, and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612. Professor Zhou completed his clinical medical training in China in 1989 and obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He continued his postdoctoral training at the University of Auckland until November 2002. Since 2002, Dr Zhou has served as a faculty member for the National University of Singapore, Queensland University of Technology (Australia), RMIT University (Australia), and now University of South Florida. Dr Zhou’s major research interests are drug discovery/systems pharmacology, drug metabolism/drug transport & pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics, nanomedicine and Chinese medicine. Professor Zhou has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers in various pharmacology and medical journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Carcinogenesis, JPET, Drug Metabolism & Disposition, and Clinical Cancer Research. He has also published 16 books and book chapters and more than 310 conference abstracts. His work has been cited more than 8,600 times by other colleagues with a H-index of 46. He has received more than US$22.0 million grants from various funding bodies and industries. To date, he has trained 24 PhD students, 12 MSc/Honors students, 14 postdoctoral fellows and 25 visiting faculty. Dr Zhou serves as an editor-in-chief or editor for 16 journals including Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety, Drug Metabolism Letters, and Current Drug Metabolism and is the editorial board member of more than 50 medical and pharmacological journals. Dr Zhou has given more than 100 invited seminars/keynote presentations to a variety of academic institutes, government agencies, and high-profile international conferences. He is a recipient of several teaching and research awards, a member of numerous national and international professional societies, and a visiting professor of many reputable research universities.

Ian Ferguson Hamilton has been teaching and is in Homeopathic Practice since 1989 with successful practices in all parts of the UK. He was Editor of The Homeopath for nearly 5 years and is the Founder of the Art and Homeopathy Group.

Art and Homeopathy

Hongcai Shang, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is also Head to the Tianjin Research Center for Evidence-based Medicine and the Tianjin Institute of Clinical Evaluation for TCM. Shang, an expert on clinical evidence translation and methodology research for clinical evaluation of TCM, established the framework of an individualized clinical evaluation method for TCM. His work, highlighting assessment of outcome and effectiveness, paved the way for objective evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine. Shang was active in academia, home and abroad. He joined the “Patient Reported Outcome Method Group” for the Cochrane Collaboration in May 2008, and was a member of the drafting group of CONSORT for TCM. Nationally, Shang is on the coordination committee of the Chinese Clinical Trial Registration and Publishing Collaboration (ChiCTRPC), and is the expert reviewer of a number of influential academic journals.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Azza El-Medany has completed her PhD at age of 32 years from Alexandria University and postdoctoral studies from Alexandria University College of Medicine. She is a Prof. of pharmacology &Vice head of department of pharmacology, College of Medicine , KSU. She published more than 40 papers in the areas of GIT, CVS, Natural products & toxicological researches in reputed journals and serving as a memberships of a number of Professional Bodies, was a speaker in a number of international conferences, the last ones in Singapore , Japan , Brazil & USA . She is a recipient of special awards in scientific research & teaching.

Mukesh Singh Sikarwar is currently working as Senior lecturer in Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Malaysia. He received his PhD in Pharmacy from K.L.E. University, Belgaum India in year 2011. His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety. He has more than 8 year of experience in mentoring students in Pharmacognosy and chemistry subjects. He has published 53 research and review papers in various peer reviewed internationals and national journals and also serving as reviewer for many international journals. He has presented 23 research papers in various national and international conferences. He has attended many MOOC courses and Online CME from online learning programmers. He is a life member of APTI, member of Asian Council of Science Editors, annual member of Society for Ethnopharmacology, India and registered as pharmacist with M. P. State Pharmacy Council.

His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety.

MVDr. Martina Načeradská is the owner of private veterinary practice, Krymská 23, Prague since 2008. She is the Winner of Falling Walls Lab Prague 2015 with research “Breaking the wall of treatment of dermatophytosis”. she has Many publications in Czech scientific journals and active participations on congresses in Czech Republic and abroad, speaches for pet owners and breeders and cooperation with several local TV channels on educational series for people about animals.

Special interests in cats, dermatology, resolving behavioral problems and use of herbs in therapy of animals.

Anirban Sukul completed his PhD from Visva-Bharati University and Research Associateship from the same University. He studied homeopathy and obtained Bachelor degree. Presently he is the Director of Sukul Institute of Homeopathic Research at Kolkata, India. He has published 22 papers in international journals and co-authored a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. He has lectured on homeopathy in 12 countries across Europe and UK. He has been conferred the Junior Scientist Award, Life Time Achievement Award, Gold Medal Award, Man of Excellence Award etc from abroad. Dr Sukul is also Member, Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), Germany

Sandeep Roy has completed his MD (Practice of Medicine) in 2012 from Bharti vidyapeeth, pune. He is the chairman of cancer care foundation and head of the department of mistletoe therapy for Cancer Management at Rishikesh hospital and research center, India. His Experience spans over a period of 15 years of practice during which more than 40000 cancer patients have been dealt with excellent results in palliation and cure. He presented several research and review papers in national and international conferences. He has been appointed as the chairman for several paper presentations in various national and international conferences. Being conferred the honour of PRIDE OF INDIA – BHASKAR AWARD 2016 felicitated by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for being a part of one of the world’s biggest medical camp held in jalgaon in January 2016. He has extended his valuable service towards the scientific community with his extensive research work.

Mistletoe Therapy for Cancer Management

Ali Ghasemzadeh completed his PhD in 2011 from University Putra Malaysia in the area of environmental plant physiology. The principal focus of his research is to understand how eco-physiological factors alter phytochemical constituents and pharmaceutical quality of herbs. He has expertise in natural products, bioassay, pharmaceutical quality of Herbs and drug discovery. He published more than 40 ISI papers, chapters, monographs, and presented more than 60 papers nationally and abroad. He is reviewer of some journals such as Journal of natural products, Food chemistry, Journal of food science and technology, Plant food for human nutrition, etc. Currently, he is research fellow at Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture University Putra Malaysia and member of Malaysian Herbal Monograph project (2010-2020).

Herbal Monographs, Natural products, Dpharmaceutical quality of Herbs and drug discovery

Muhammad Tayyab Akhtar has done his PhD in 2013 from Leiden University, Netherlands. During his PhD research, he used zebrafish as a model organism to study the toxicological, behavioral and metabolic effects of cannabinoids. Currently, he is working as a post-doc researcher at Institute of Bioscience of University Putra Malaysia.

Somashekar Shetty was awarded the Ph.D. by Manipal University in 2005. He has nearly 19 years of experience teaching Biochemistry to medical students in Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India, AIMST University Malaysia and American University of Antigua, West Indise. He is experienced in medical curricula with PBL and other self-directed learning approaches He has 13 scientific publications and 21 conference presentations to his credit. He is a reviewer for many journals and is a recognized Ph.D. guide for Manipal University, India. His main research area has been Wound Healing and Indigenous Drugs: Role as Antioxidants

Mohammad Zashim Uddin obtained Ph. D. at the age of 32 years and trained from USA on tropical biodiversity. His current position is Professor in the University of Dhaka and supervised 25 M.S. research students and presently guiding one Ph. D student. By this time, he published 56 research articles in different scientific journals. Recipient of numerous awards and grants, Dr. Zashim has participated at least 41 events of training program/ workshop/ international conference. He served as biodiversity expert in 20 research projects here in Bangladesh. His current research focuses are on threatened ethnomedicinal plants and conservation of forest biodiversity.

His current research focuses are on threatened ethnomedicinal plants and conservation of forest biodiversity.

Bhairav Kulkarni Tawshikar is the Director of Shree Siddhivinayak Ayurved Panchakarma centre and also he is currently working as an eminent Faculty member at CSMSS Ayurved College, Aurangabad. He has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his expert research works in related fields.

Ayurveda, Panchakarma

G. S. Shukla completed his M.D. in Homoeopathy from University of Rajasthan-Jaipur, India and PhD in Public Health from SHIATS-Deemed University, Allahabad, UP, India. He has been teaching Indian and International students for more than 15 years. At present, he is professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Associate Director, Students Welfare, SHIATS-Deemed University, Allahabad, India. He has been practicing homoeopathy since last 24 years. He has published one book on management of depression and many research publications. He has organized many reputed events.