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Professor Falasca did his PhD at Mario Negri Institute in Italy and postdoctoral studies at the Department of Pharmacology, New York University, USA with Professor Joseph Schlessinger. He was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, at the University College London and a Professor at the Queen Mary University of London. Professor Falasca is a Full Professor in Metabolism, at Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Parma, Italy. His primary interest is the investigation of cellular and intercellular communication with a particular focus on the endocannabinoid system's role in pancreatic cancer progression and gastrointestinal functions and on the role of extracellular vesicles in pancreatic cancer.

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Xiao-Nan Li, M.D., Ph.D., is a Rachelle and Mark Gordon Endowed Professor of Cancer Research, and Professor (Tenured) of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is also the Director of Developmental Therapeutic Core at Northwestern UniversityRobert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. The overall goal Dr. Li's laboratory is to develop new therapies for brain cancers. He has a special interest in developing clinically relevant animal models for preclinical drug screening and biological studies of human malignant brain tumors. Recognizing the limitations of traditional subcutaneous xenograft models, Dr. Li is actively engaged in and have been leading the development of patient derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX or orthotopic PDX) models through direct injection of fresh surgical and autopsied specimens of patient tumors into the anatomically matched locations in the brains of immunodeficient mice. With a tumor take rate >70%, Dr. Li has established nearly 200 PDOX models of brain tumors, including medulloblastoma, glioblastoma multiforme (both adult and pediatric), ependymoma, DIPG, atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, CNS germinoma, and low grade glioma. Detailed characterization confirmed the molecular fidelity and clinical relevance of PDOX models to the original patient tumors. Using this unique panel of in vivo model system, Dr. Li's laboratory has also optimized a novel approach to establishing a large matching panels of in vitro 3D tumor organoids and is actively pursuing multiple biological and clinically-oriented projects. Dr. Li's research is richly supported by major federal and state grants in the United States, including serving as principle investigator in NIH/NCI grants (RO1 and 3 UO1) and3 Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grants. Dr. Li has published more than 100 research papers and his drug testing has resulted in the initiation of six clinical trials.

Dr. Zhenghe John Wang is Dale H. Cowan M.D. – Ruth Goodman Blum Professor of Cancer Research and vice chair for faculty development in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine. He is also a co-leader of the Cancer Genome and Epigenome Program at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. He co-discovered PIK3CA oncogenic mutations in human cancer. His laboratory identifies novel mechanisms by which PIK3CA oncogenic mutations drive tumorigenesis. He has successfully translated these discoveries into active phase I/II clinical trials and another clinical trial that is expected to open very soon.

Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Genetics in 1998 from the Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China. He did postdoctoral trainingatthe Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Wu joined the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology in 2006 as an assistant professor and is now an associate professor with tenure in the Dept. of Oncology at Wayne State University.As a cancer biologist, Dr. Wu investigated intrinsic mechanisms underlying human cancer progression and the impact of tumors on immune landscape remodeling. His research was sponsored by NIH/NCI, Susan Komen, and multiple internal grants from Karmanos and University. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in journals which include Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, JNCI, PNAS, Cancer Research, and Oncogene.

Dr. Leavenworth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is also an Associate Scientist of the Neuro-Oncology Program of the UAB O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Associate Scientist of Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. Previously, she was at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School serving as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an instructor. Her research is focused on immunology and immunotherapy, and has been published in many prestigious journals, including Nature Cancer, Molecular Cancer, Nature Immunology, Cell Reports, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and Journal of Clinical Investigation. She has also been serving as reviewers and editors for many reputed journals.

Dr. Vishwanatha is aRegents Professor and Vice President, and Founding Director of the Texas Center for Health Disparitiesat the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. He is a principal investigator of the National Research Mentoring Network, a NIH Common Fund initiative to provide mentorship, networking and professional development for a diversified biomedical and behavioral workforce. He is also a principal investigator of the NIH Specialized Center of Excellence in Health Disparities, AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center, as well as the Texas CEAL Consortium. Dr. Vishwanatha received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from US White House in October 2019. Dr. Vishwanatha received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of South Carolina in 1983. Dr. Vishwanatha’s research is in cancer molecular biology, experimental therapeutics and nanotechnology. His laboratory is investigating genetic markers that predict development of aggressive prostate and breast cancers, and nanotechnology-based therapies for breast and prostate cancers. His research is funded by NIH, DOD and other agencies. Dr. Vishwanatha is actively involved in mentorship and networking programs to diversify the biomedical research workforce, and has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students from under represented groups in biomedical sciences. As thefounding director of the Texas Center for Health Disparities, a Specialized Center of Excellence funded by the National Institutes of Health, he has directed health disparity research, education and community outreach programs. For the past 12 years, he has organized the annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities that attract national speakers and participants.He serves on the external advisory committees for University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, PR; St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas; Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama;Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia. He has been an active member of the AACOM Diversity Council, AAMC GREAT Group, SACNAS and ABRCMS.

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Dr. Yong Lu is an awardee of the 2021 Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas Rising Stars program. Prior to joining Houston Methodist/Weill Cornell Medicine, he was a co-leader of Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center for Signaling and Biotechnology (SBT) program. During 2019-2021, he was a member of NCI’s cell-based immunotherapy network to: (A) provide NCI with advice on the research gaps in cancer adoptive cell therapy; (B) advise the NCI on future directions of cancer adoptive cell therapy. Dr. Lu’s work focuses on translational T cell-based adoptive cell immunotherapy, targeting lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and other cancers.

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Jian Yang, M.D. & Ph.D.，Professor，Department of Pharmacology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R.China. Research direction is clinical pharmacology, focusing on drug-metabolzining enzymes, osteoporosis, neurodegeneration and cancers. More than 10 grants have been funded in NIH(U.S.A), NSFC(P.R.C) etc. More than 50 papers have been published in Mol Pharm, British Pharm, Metabolism etc. Membership in professional societies (current): Chinese Society of pharmacology, Chinese pharmacology Society Clinical pharmacology, Chinese pharmacology Society Teaching and science of pharmacology.

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Dr. Fen Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Nanjing Medical University. Previously, she worked in MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas University as a research scientist. Her research focuses on cancer biology and epigenetic regulation. She has been published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals, including Nature Communications, Molecular Cancer, Cell Death Disease, Cell Death Discovery and Life Sciences. Her work is sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu at China.

Prof. Wei-Qiang Gao is KC Wong endowed chair professor, Dean of MED-X Research Institute and Director of Renji Hospital Stem Cell Research Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was former Director of the State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes and former Dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include "stem cells and tissue repair", "Cancer stem cells” and “Cancer immunotherapy”. He has published more than 120 papers in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell as the corresponding author or the first author. He has been interviewed by Nature and Science, and has been elected as the Highly Cited Scholar in China for 7 consecutive years and ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world.Prof. Gao has recently also focused on translational medicine to treat solid tumors by targeting specific key molecules identified by his group. He returned to China from USA in 2010. He was a student of CUSBEA program, received his Ph.D.at Columbia University in 1989, completed his postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University.He worked as a Laboratory Director and Senior Scientist at Genentech in 1993-2010.

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Professor Sun obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and did his postdoc at the National Cancer Institute. Following 8 years of tenure in Parke-Davis/Pfizer as Research Fellow, he joined the faculty of University of Michigan in 2003 and was promoted to tenured full professor and Director of the Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology in 2008. He was endowed as Lawrence-Krause Research Professor in Radiation Oncology in 2019.He alsoserved as a founding Dean at the Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University, China in 2014-2018. The main research focus of Sun laboratory is to define the role of Cullin RING ligases (CRLs) and protein neddylation in regulation of tumorigenesis. His laboratory has validated CRLs and protein neddylation, upon abnormal activation in cancer, are promising cancer targets, and is actively engaging in the discovery of small molecule inhibitors of CRLs-neddylation for cancer therapy. Professor Sunauthored270 peer reviewed articles, published in several prestigious journals as a corresponding author, including Dev Cell, eLife, J Cell Biol, J Clin Invest, Mol Cell, Nature Communs, PNAS, Science Advs, with more than 34,500 citations and H index of 75. He has been elected as a highly cited scholar in China for 6 consecutive years, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2012.

Kuan-lin Huang, Ph.D. Fundraiser and Cheerleader (aka Principal Investigator) Born and raised in Taiwan, Kuan-lin "Kuan" Huang is now an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and PI of the Computational Omics Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After being the only graduate to earn two Honors (Molecular Biology & Studio Art) at Wesleyan University, he completed his Ph.D. in Statistical Genomics and Postdoc in Multi-omic Software Development at Washington University in St. Louis. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications including lead authorship in the top scientific journals, and is the author of the best-seller "Solve It Yourself." Kuan was a co-founder/CEO of the startup DeepGene in grad school, and currently serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Unboxer of OpenBoxScience.Org. A good day of his life typically involves great people, hikes, books, dark chocolate, bubble tea, surfing, tennis; and a 20-minute nap.

Xi-chun Hu, M.D., Ph. D., is currently a Professor Director of Department of Medical Oncology,Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Hu has published more than 280 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, such as Lancet Oncol, JCO,Ann Oncol, and Nature Commun.He is vice editor of ABC (Advanced breast cancer) guideline (Chinese version) and one of the leading authors for CBCS (Chinese Breast Cancer Society) guideline for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment which is updated biannually. Dr. Hu is an ABC 5-7consensus panelist and faculty member of ESMO breast faculty, an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, vice chair of Shanghai Breast Cancer Society, member of the Standing Academic Committee of CSCO (Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology). He is proud to have been a mentor and teacher for multiple medical students, medical oncology fellows, and graduate students. Dr. Hu’s major interest is in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer, both in the clinic and in the laboratory, and phase I trial on new anticancer agents. His laboratory interests and contributions have been in the area of serum tumor markers, angiogenesis, supportive care in cancer and precision medicine.He and his laboratory are now concentrating on translational research on triple negative breast cancer and immunotherapy.

Rocio Guil, Ph.D. in Psychology and Professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cadiz. She is a founding member and head of the Emotional Intelligence Laboratory and of the PAIDI HUM 843 "EmotionalIntelligence" group of the University of Cadiz and the IN46 group: "Psychological, social and emotional factors linked to Quality of Life" of the Research and Innovation Institute Biomedica de Cáddiz (INiBICA) of the Departments of Health and Economy and Knowledge of the Junta de Andalucia, the Andalusian Health Service, the University of Cadiz and the Foundation for the Management of Biomedical Research of Cadiz. Likewise, she is a member of the Research Institute for Sustainable Social Development (INDESS) of the University of Cádiz. She has worked for years in the field of emotions, identifying socio-emotional skills linked to adaptation, detecting risk profiles, and developing and implementing intervention programs. In recent years, Ph.D. Rocio Guil has focused her research on the implications of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and various indicators of perceived health and Quality of Life (QL). Some of these specific indicators have been studied in women who survive breast cancer, and the results have been published in various scientific forums and high-quality scientific journals.

Dr Edwin Parra is an Associate Professor and Director of the Multiplex Immunofluorescence and Image Analysis Laboratory in the Department of Translational Molecular Pathology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Mayor de San Andres, Bolivia, and finished his Residence in Pathology at Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil. Then he obtained his Ph.D. and his Post-doctoral Fellow at the same university—a second Post-doctoral Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is a pathologist with a strong background in surgical pathology and research. His main interest is tissue immune profiling and elucidating the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis and progression of cancer, particularly lung cancer. He aimed to accomplish this objective by applying multiplexed Image technologies and digital image analysis. He has over 15 years of research experience and authored over 200 articles on cancer, human and animal models, and immune profiling tumor tissues.

Dr. Abdelmonem A. Hegazy is currently working as Professor of Human Biology, Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Dentistry,Zarqa University, Jordan; &Faculty of Medicine,Zagazig University, Egypt&. He is also a Consultant of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility. He is the former chairman of the Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University (Egypt); Professor in King Saud and Majmaah Universities, KSA,(2009-2013) and Misurata, Faculty of Medicine, Libya (2000) &Misr University for Science & Technology, Egypt (2019-2022), Dr. Hegazy is also a referee of scientific research submitted for promotion of professors in Egyptian Universities (since 2016 till Present). Prof Hegazy is a Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA). He is also an Egyptian Ambassador for International Program for Prevention of Child Abuse 'My Body is My Body'. He is Editor-in-Chief of the following international journals: International Journal of Human Anatomy (USA); Women Health and Complications (UK); SAR Journal of Medical Case Reports (Bangladesh); Journal of Medical & Advanced Clinical Case Reports (India); Journal of Frontiers Journal of Anatomical Variations (FJAV); International Journal of Science and Research Development (IJSRD); The American Journal of Medical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Research; Cloning & Transgenesis (USA);Journal of Skeleton System (USA);International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health Research” (USA); Worldwide Journal of Research& Journal of Medical Case Reports and Case Series" (USA); Associate Editor-in-Chief of International Journal "Neurology and Neuroscience Reports" (UK) & the Former Editor-in-Chief of Zagazig University Medical Journal (Egypt). He is also Member of International Institutional Review Board – IRB (Hong Kong). Dr. Hegazy participates in Zagazig University academic, scientific, educational and professional development activities in the fields of medical sciences development, including basic and clinical research, policy implementation, design programs, set coursework plans, curricula, syllabi, scientific conference paneling, as well as designing and delivering a wide scope of continuous professional development programs, including training, strategic planning, research methodology, scientific thesis and dissertation writing; research proposal, medical ethics, organization's behavior issues, all with emphasis on system and staff development. Dr. Hegazy is a member of Institutional Research Board (IRB) unit, Egyptian Medical Syndicate, Egyptian Society of Anatomy, and Postgraduate and Scientific Research Affairs Committee, Faculty of Medicine. His pool of academics consists of original research articles/books/book chapters in various national and international accredited publishing houses. Dr. Hegazy has plenty of scientific publications and projects with manycitations. He has got many national and international honors and awards. Dr. Hegazy has been supervising post graduate students in their thesis works. He is also a well-known reviewer/referee/editorial board member in more than 150international indexed journals.

Dr. Woo Keun Song is a professor of school of life science and director of Bioimaging research center at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Korea. He obtained his Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign (UIUC). Also he had Post-doctoral training experience in the UIUC and Seoul national university. His main interest is the communication between cancer and cancer environment. In particular he has focused on roles of microenvironment in breast cancer development. Recently he found that anticancer agents that can target microtubules by specifically binding to acetylated microtubule which are dominant in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), suggest that the compounds act as potential therapeutic agents against acetylation enrichment in TNBC. He has over 20 years of research experience in this field and published over 150 papers about cancer cell migration and motility and cell adhesion.

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Seb Oltean Sebastian studied medicine at "Iuliu Hatieganu" Medical School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and trained as a junior doctor in Nephrology and Dialysis before moving to USA where he obtained a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004.This was followed by postdoctoral training at Duke University Medical Center (North Carolina, USA) where he became interested in studying the connections between alternative splicing and cancer. In 2008 he moved to the University of Bristol where he continued to study alternative splicing in vivo, with focus towards the importance of several genes splice isoforms (e.g VEGF, FGFR2) in cancer as well as kidney diseases and development of splice-based therapeutics. In 2012 he was appointed Independent Research Fellow and Principal Investigator and developed his own research group in Bristol before moving to the University of Exeter Medical School in 2017 where he is now an associate professor. He has published over 50 papers, some in high impact journals like Cancer Cell, Oncogene, PNAS or Nature Methods. The main goals of Oltean's lab are to understand molecular mechanisms of disease and to find novel therapeutic targets. As disease models, we work on cancer (especially prostate cancer) as well as diabetes (especially diabetic nephropathy). The cellular processes that we are most interested in are angiogenesis, epithelial-mesenchymal transitions and fibrosis. At molecular level we study alternative splicing regulation in physiology and disease, with a special emphasis on how we can manipulate alternative splicing for therapeutic benefit. Alternative splicing is one of the main processes that decide the diversity of proteins in our bodies. It is estimated that 94% of genes are alternatively spliced in humans and therefore this process affects all cellular properties. The function of the majority of splicing isoforms is not characterized yet. Numerous splicing isoforms have been associated with disease progression in recent years and there is much interest in understanding their contribution to pathogenesis and how this can be reversed for therapeutic purposes.

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Jean J Zhao, PhD, is Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). She is also an investigator of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Zhao has over 20 years of research experience in cancer biology and translational medicine.Her research program based on integrating cutting-edge technologies in genomic and molecular profiling with mouse genetics and pharmacology approaches not only addresses important basic science questions, but also has significant clinical impact. She has co-authored more than hundred articles that consistently include top-tier journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell, and Cancer Cell. She is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award, the V Scholar Award, the Starr Foundation Award and the Department of Defense Cancer Research Breakthrough Award. She served and has been serving on multiple scientific boards and committees, including the Executive Committee for Research at DFCI, the Steering Committee of Breast Cancer at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centerand the Advisory Council of the National Brain Tumor Society.In addition to her academic research, Jean has co-founded Crimson Biopharm Inc. and Geode Therapeutics Inc. focusing on translating science and discoveries from academic settings into the clinic to make truly meaningful impact on the lives of patients with cancer.