6^th International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases January 28-29, 2019 Barcelona, Spain

Dr Jens M Warnecke is a Senior scientist at EUROIMMUN AG, an international provider of medical laboratory products for the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases, infections and allergies, and for molecular analyses. He is responsible for planning, set-up and conduct of validation studies for newly developed products in the field of infectious diseases. As a Senior Scientist he is responsible for scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and scientific presentations in the field of infectious diseases.

Dr Warnecke received his degree in Biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 1993 with a Diploma thesis in experimental oncology. He continued his academic training by investigating the enzymatic mechanisms of catalytic RNA molecules in Berlin and Lübeck and finished his PhD thesis with distinction in 1998. He spent his postdoc time at the private University Witten/Herdecke, investigating RNA-Protein interactions. After a second postdoc with Altana Pharma he was appointed as lecturer for molecular tumour biology in the Master degree course Molecular Life Sciences at the Medical University of Lübeck. With his research group he entered the field of tumour diagnostics, exploring the possibilities and functions of extracellular nucleic acids in body fluids. In 2008 he left academia to work as responsible Project Manager in phase II clinical trials in the field of oncology until end of 2013 before joining EUROIMMUN AG. Jens Warnecke has profound experience as a peer reviewer of scientific journals and is author of many scientific publications. He has a strong background in reviewing and designing pivotal studies.

French medical/scientific expert, specialised in infectious and tropical diseases, NCDs and certified in Immunology and Pediatric, MBA in vaccinology and Public health . Lived multi-country medical “field “experience in Southeast Asia, West/Central/East Europe and Middle East.Speaking French, English, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Slovak with notion of Mandarin.Over 17 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development for European and USA companies as Medical lead /Director of R&D and Medical independent consultant PP.Active member of various academic societies with focus on R&D innovation and partnership highlighting role immunology/immune-metabolism and genetics for innovative treatment, prevention and diagnostic in context of resistance to treatment.Member of advisory Health concern (India) and think tank group in order to attract attention to role of public health and accessible medical care, education and awareness .Years of expertise to work globally but recently more focused on BRICS as Medical advisor for scientific partnership, bringing new innovative concepts alive and getting them endorsed.

Tropical Diseases

Celso Cunha has his expertise in biology and pathology of Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis D (HDV) virus infections. He uses molecular and cellular biology approaches to understand fundamental aspects of virus replication and pathogenesis mechanisms. In the last years he made use of proteomic methodologies to understand the main metabolic pathways affected by replication of HDV. In addition, he has been exploring several in vitro and in vivo systems to detect host cell factors that interact with virus components and may be involved in virus replication. The combination of these approaches may help finding potential targets for a specific therapy which is still lacking, especially in the case of HDV. He leads a small research group with collaborations established in Portugal and several foreign countries. The main research interest concerns the replication of hepatitis B and D viruses with special emphasis on host interaction. He is the co-author of about 40 publications in international journals. Celso Cunha is a member of the editorial board of the World Journal of Virology. In 2001, he was awarded the Ricardo Jorge Prizes of Public Health and Laura Ayres of Microbiology / Communicable Diseases.

Infectious Diseases,Tropical Medicine, Public Health Replication of hepatitis B and D viruses with special emphasis on host interaction.

Liliana Muschietti is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina and received Ph.D from the same University. She has worked in multiple research projects funded by UBA, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT). She has her expertise in phytochemistry and biodiscovery. Mainly in the isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive natural compounds, from Argentine medicinal species, with special emphasis on drug candidates for Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, cancer and viral infections.

Biodiscovery,Phytochemistry, Chagas disease

Director of Infectious Diseases Unit at "Annunziata" Hospital, Cosenza, Italy

Disease Biomarkers for Studies on Tuberculosis (TB)

) Thomas D Licker has a BS in Environmental Science from Slippery Rock University and has over 20-years experience in handling event driven hazardous materials and biological response actions. He holds an accredited certification as a Council Certified Environmental Infection Control Remediator recognized by the Council for Engineering and Scientific Boards. He is the Director of Infection Control Technologies, a premier bioremediation services company and serves as the Director of Operations for Decontamination Professionals International.

Infection control technologies

Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin is a Professor of Clinical Microbiology at University Diderot, Paris. She has studied MD in Medicine and PhD in Sciences in the early 1970s. She is a Chief of Department of Clinical Microbiology and research group, University Bichat Claude-Bernard and developed research on Acinetobacter spp., (nosocomial pathogen, pathogenicity, resistance), pharmacology of antibiotics, tissue distribution (lungs, brain, bronchi), research on intestinal ecology, jejunal flora and bacterial adhesion. She is an Adviser to pharmaceutical companies, expert in pharmacology-toxicology for the Ministry of Health, expert for international journals. She has developed a journal Antibiotics, (Elsevier). She has published 6 medical books, many chapters in international infectious diseases books, 200 articles in scientific journals.

Antibiotics

David Jackson is a Senior Principal Research Fellow with the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, a Professor in The University of Melbourne and a Chief Investigator of an NH&MRC Program Grant. In 2014 he was appointed Distinguished Professor in Hokkaido University, Japan.He has trained more than 50 graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral scholars and published more than 200 original research papers, invited reviews and book chapters in immunology, chemistry, biochemistry and vaccinology. He was one of the founders of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology and is senior inventor of a number of patents with licenses issued to the pharmaceutical industry. One of his inventions resulted in a first-in-man clinical trial of a synthetic epitope-based vaccine against hepatitis C virus. He is co-founder of 2 start-up biotechnology companies both of which are based on his own inventions. In the last five years his work has attracted more than twenty million dollars in research grants from nationally and internationally competitive sources, industry and investors.

) David Jackson has been an active researcher in immunology and immunochemistry over the last 40 years. His research efforts are now focused on the design, assembly and evaluation of innovative vaccines which have led to pre-clinical and clinical evaluation of vaccine candidates for influenza, hepatitis C virus, Group A streptococcus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human papilloma virus. He has also developed candidate vaccines against methamphetamine and cocaine and against the reproductive hormone luteinizing hormone releasing hormone.

Lorena Brown is a professor at the University of Melbourne and at Hokkaido University. She is a lecturer in Virology to students of Science and Medicine and also heads a laboratory dedicated to understanding and controlling influenza.

Her work is focused on researching and evaluating new vaccines designed to combat both seasonal and highly lethal avian strains of influenza, including vaccines that induce cross-reactive T cell responses. As well as having a combined expertise in immunology and basic virology, her teamed is skilled in molecular virology techniques, which are used to understand the detailed replication of influenza virus and disease pathogenesis.

Kevin Galalae is the world’s foremost independent authority on the globalization-depopulation axis around which the international system has revolved since the inception of the United Nations in 1945, and the first to expose and scientifically demonstrate the existence, methods and consequences of the Global Depopulation Policy. He is the founder and Director of the Center of Global Consciousness (CGC), which is dedicated to the eradication of all covert chemical, biological, psychosocial and economic methods of population control and to their replacement with overt population control legislation through a global replacement level fertility law.

covert chemical, biological and bacteriological methods, Causes and Consequences of the Global Depopulation Policy and Chemical and Biological Depopulation.

Graduate in medicine and surgery from University of Seville 1983 is currently the Head of the Epidemiology and Prevention Section and President of the Spanish Association of Vacunology (AEV). Since November 2013 President of UNICEF Canarias. Since February 2016 Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health Master's Degree in Health Economics and Health Management. University of Las Palmas. University Specialist in Vaccines. Complutense University of Madrid. Diploma in Hospital Management (Medical Direction). National School of Health. Diploma in Health. National School of Health. Prize Professor Rey Calero, of the Royal National Academy of Medicine, for the best work on Vaccines. Year 2005. More than 30 years of experience as a public health professional, mainly in the areas of epidemiology and vaccines. Various articles published in international and national scientific journals, as well as several chapters in books related to public health, especially vaccines Multiple presentations and communications to different congresses, as well as several hundreds of hours as a professor of vaccines and epidemiology

Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health, Medicine

Professor Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro (MD, DSc) is the Head of the Malaria Research Laboratory at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC) and of the National Reference Center for Malaria at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Full Researcher and Professor at Fiocruz and at the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq); Academician of the Brazilian and French National Academies of Medicine. He is former Director of the IOC (1993-1994), Fiocruz and former Professor (1997-1998) of the Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpétrière (Univ. Paris VI) as well as past-President of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine (2012-12016). He received the Sendas Prize (Brazil, 1997) and the Médaille de la Société Française de Médecine Tropicale (France, 2016) and has been named Chevalier des Palmes Académiques (France, 2013) and Doutor Honoris Causa of the Universidade de Nova Lisboa (Portugal, 2016). He holds interest in the immunology and immunopathology of malaria, and has published over 190 scientific articles (134 ISI indexed), including five thesis, five book chapters and two books.

Immunology,Immunopathology

Valeria Patricia Sülsen is a Researcher of The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) working at The Institute for Drug Chemistry and Metabolism (IQUIMEFA) – University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is Assistant Professor at the chair of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, UBA, Argentina and member of the Research Network of Natural Products against Neglected Diseases (ResNet NPND). In 1998, she graduated as a Pharmacist and, in 2009, she obtained the degree of Doctor at the University of Buenos Aires. She was also granted a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship from CONICET (2009-2011). In 2011, she was given the “Félix de Azara” Award to the best work on the flora and fauna of Argentina, which was carried out at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, UBA. Dr. Sülsen also obtained the Award to the best Thesis (Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, UBA) in 2009, and, in 2016, she was given the National Academy of Pharmacy and Biochemistry Annual Award, Thematic Area: Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences- Phytochemistry. Her main expertise areas are Pharmacognosy in general and the study of antiprotozoal natural compounds, being her projects devoted to the search of hits and lead natural compounds, especially sesquiterpene lactones and flavonoids to be used for the treatment of Chagas’ disease and leishmaniasis.

Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Neglected Tropical Diseases