Dr. Matin has been a full professor at Stanford Medical School for several years and is affiliated with several programs, including the Stanford Cancer Research Institute; he elected to become emeritus, on July 1, '21. His research contributions are numerous, including the discovery of new drugs, therapeutic enzymes, and their improvement as well as their specific targeting to cancer (and other diseases). He did his Ph. D. at UCLA and spent some years in the Netherlands (State University of Groningen), where he directed a research group, before joining Stanford. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

Dr. Xi Yang obtained his medical degree from Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University in China and his PhD degree in Immunology from University of Manitoba. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Immunology and Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba. He served as the Head of the Department of Immunology and was the Canada Research Chair in Infection and Immunity. His research program focuses on infection and allergic diseases, particularly chlamydial infections and the effect of infection on allergic diseases.

After finishing Ph.D. in India, I completed postdoctoral training at UTMB, Texas, and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. I started the faculty position at the University Of California San Diego (UCSD). Other than my own research program at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), I co-founded the UC San Diego’s HUMANOID Center of Research Excellence to provide access to adult stem cell-based organoid models to researchers and to develop transdisciplinary collaborations with computational biologists, physician-scientists, and bio engineers. After 11 years at UCSD, I moved to UMass-Lowell with my lab group. I have an affiliation with UCSD as an Adjunct Associate Professor.

Dr. Sharma received her B.Sc. and Ph. D. in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. From 2004-2009, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Immune Disease Institute (IDI), at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Anjana Rao. She was an instructor at IDI and in Paediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, and at Harvard Medical School.

Matthias von Herrath, M.D. bringing more than 25 years of experience in diabetes research and innovation, Dr. von Herrath is one of the leading diabetes experts in the world. Dr. von Herrath joins the Miller School after serving as professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego. He also is Vice President and Senior Medical Officer for Novo Nordisk, Inc., a Danish pharmaceutical company. Dr. von Herrath will leverage his extensive experience opening the door to new frontiers in translational research.

Dr. Ling is a Professor at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. She received her Ph.D. degree from Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, China. Dr. Ling's laboratory is interested in using nonhuman primate models to study the persistence of HIV in tissues and organs to develop novel drug delivery and therapeutic strategies for HIV reduction or eradication. Her team also aims to understand what controls or spreads the virus in a host with or without therapeutic intervention. Additional interests include the relationships between HIV/SIV and aging, and HIV/SIV and the microbiome. Ling's current research is supported by NIH. She has a broad background in molecular virology, immunology, and many years of experience and expertise in nonhuman primate models in HIV/SIV pathogenesis and cure studies.

Dr. Wang is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Wang's research focuses on understanding of the disease mechanisms of emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses, such as West Nile virus, Zika virus, Powassan virus, Chikungunya virus, and Sars-CoV-2, host immune responses to viruses and candidate vaccines, vaccine development, and antiviral agents.

Brandon Lucke-Wold was born and raised in Colorado Springs, CO. He graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Neuroscience and distinction in honors from Baylor University. He completed his MD/PhD, Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research, and the Global Health Track at West Virginia University School of Medicine. His research focus was on traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical simulation, and stroke. At West Virginia University, he also served as a health coach for the Diabetes Prevention and Management program in Morgantown and Charleston, WV, which significantly improved health outcomes for participants. In addition to his research and public health projects, he is a co-founder of the biotechnology company Wright-Wold Scientific, the pharmaceutical company CTE cure, and wasa science advocate on Capitol Hill through the Washington Fellow’s program. He has also served as president of the WVU chapters for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Neurosurgery Interest group, and Erlenmeyer Initiative Entrepreneur group. In addition, he has served as vice president for the graduate student neuroscience interest group, Nu Rho Psi Honor Society, and medical students for global health.He was an active member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He is currently amember of the UF House Staff Council, Positive Culture Committee, Quality Improvement Committee, Board of Directors Alachua County Medical Society, and Accreditation Requirements Review Committee.He is married to Noelle Lucke-Wold and has two children. As a family, they enjoy running with their dogs, rock climbing, and traveling. In his spare time, Brandon frequently runs half marathons and 10ks together with is wife. Brandon also enjoys reading, playing piano, discussing philosophy, and playing chess. He is currently a Pgy5 neurosurgery resident at University of Florida with pursuing endovascular enfolded training and was awarded the Dempsey Cerebrovascular Research Fellowship.

Dr. Mrs. Neelima Garg, Director ICAR- CISH Lucknow did her M.Sc and Ph. D. (Microbiology) from Haryana Agri. Univ. Hisar. He joined ARS services as Scientist at CISH , Lucknow in 1988. In 1989 under Indo-USaid project on post-harvest technology of fruits, she received 4 months training at Cornell University, U.S.A, in the area of fruit processing microbiology and horticultural waste utilisation. In 2016 she visited Cambridge University, UK to attend International Workshop on ‘Female Leaders in Crop and Agricultural Sciences’ Organised by DBT and Cambridge University, UK. She was promoted to the post of Principal Scientist on 27.7.06. She joined as Head, Division of Post Harvest Management in 2009 and again in 2015 and is still continuing as In charge Head. Dr. Garg is recipient of Dr. J.S.Pruthi and Kezriwal Awards for the years 2000 and 2006 provided by All India Food Processors Association, ICN International Award 2020 in the category of Agriculture by ICN Media Group and LMA Outstanding Women Achiever Award 2021 by Lucknow Management Association. She is Fellow of the Society for development of Subtropical Horticulture, Lucknow (2011); Confederation of Horticultural Associations of India (2012); Agri Innovation Foundation (2020). She is Vice president of Society for Development of Subtropical Horticulture, CISH, Lucknow since 2014. Dr. Neelima Garg has worked extensively in the field of bio processing of fruits and vegetables and soil microbiology. She explored role of microbes in Food fermentation, fruit waste value addition, organic agriculture, bio dynamic agriculture and pesticide bio remediation. She is a co-developer of 9 no. of mobile apps on processed products from raw and ripe mango, guava and aonla with audio/calculation facility. Her 12 no. technologies have been commercialised by the Institute. Her major contributions are development of aonla and guava ciders, bael wine, Mahua wine & vermouth, mango wine, probiotic products, use of fruit processing waste for production of enzymes etc. She has published more than 100 research papers in national and international journals, authored/edited 8 books from reputed publishers, 40 book chapters, 40 popular/semi technical articles and has delivered over 100 lead Lectures/ key note address/ invited talks/oral and poster presentations in National and International Seminars/Symposium/ Conferences. She is reviewer of a number of national and international journals having high impact factor/ NAAS rating.

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Linda Chia-Hui Yu is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Physiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine in Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. degree from McMaster University and postdoctoral training at the University of Calgary in Canada. Dr. Yu’s laboratory investigates pathophysiological mechanisms of intestinal epithelial biology and mucosal immunology. Her research interest is focused on host-microbe interaction for the regulation of epithelial barrier and intestinal tumorigenesis. She has received numerous competitive research grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health Research Institute in Taiwan. She currently serves as a Council member of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies (FAOPS) (2019-2023), Chair of Commission V secretion and absorption in the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) (2022-2025), Councillor of Chinese Physiological Society (CPS) in Taiwan(2022-2024).

Dr. Hossein Keshavarz research interests are in the broad area of parasites immunology with emphasis on protozoan diseases such as toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis and malaria including host-parasite interactions; antigenic variation; genetic polymorphism; control, prevention and treatment of parasitic infections; immunopathogenesis; and the impact of co-infections; as well as molecular detection of parasitic pathogens.

Dr Wong, Darren is a senior research fellow with the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) from the National University of Singapore and was awarded his Ph.D. in mechanobiology by the Mechanobiology Institute Singapore, NUS. His research focuses on the mechanobiology of innate immune natural killer cells, cardiac aging, and the translational potential of harnessing cellular contractility in treating cancer. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious NUS-National Research Foundation Singapore(NRF) industrial sponsorship.

Mohanad I.H. Mahmoud, a Ph.D. student at Central South University. was born in Darfur, Sudan, and is a graduate of Omdurman Islamic University. He obtained an MSc in medical microbiology at the Sudan University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at Central South University in China. He has expertise in medical microbiology and a passion for improving health and well-being. He has years of experience in evaluation and teaching in hospitals and at Alfashir University in Sudan.

Pharmaceutical-Biochemistry, Master in Tropical Pathology, PhD in Tropical and Infectious Diseases. Coordinator of the postgraduate program in applied sciences to Hematology (PPGH), by the Amazon University State from 2017 to 2019. Amazonas Quality Award - Services category with the Rh(D) negative Pregnancy Control Program, offered by the Federation of Industries of the State of the Amazonas. Award of Merit Honor offered by the Municipality of Manaus-Amazon. Active researcher of the HEMOAM Foundation in the area of microbiology, especially clinical bacteriology, with emphasis on multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Assistant professor of Microbiology at the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. Young Ambassador of Venezuela for the American Society for Microbiology since 2021. Doctor of Medicine from the Central University of Venezuela, practice based in rural communities in Miranda state, Venezuela. Medical Director of the Biomedical Research and Therapeutic Vaccines Institute – Caracas branch. The research focused on tropical and infectious diseases.

Dr. Du is a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University. Her research mainly focuses on the rational design and development of effective and safe vaccines and therapeutic agents to prevent and treat infection caused by coronaviruses, flaviviruses, and other pathogenic viruses.

"Associate Professor in Virology/Immunology in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia. Member of the executive board of the "Tunisian Society for Microbiology". Main research field: "Pathogenesis of Type B Coxsackieviruses infections", mainly auto-immune diseases (especially type 1 diabetes) and central nervous system disorders.

Dr. Mamishi has been a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences since 2003. She has also been the director of the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences since 1994. She has contributed to different types of clinical research to improve our knowledge of diseases and develop new treatments and technology to ensure better patient care. Some of her national and international research was related to SARS-CoV-2 infection (diagnosis and treatment), a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), antibacterial resistance and genotyping of numerous bacteria, diagnostic methods of latent tuberculosis, etc. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honours as well.

Zilungile Mkhize-Kwitshana is an Associate Professor and Immunologist in the School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) where she leads a team of researchers and post graduate students. She is a C3 NRF rated medical scientist. She is an academic manager with over 30 years combined experience in Medical Research, Higher Education and Pathology environments encompassing routine clinical diagnostics in the public health sector, medical research, academic undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral teaching and supervision. She also leads and participates in several capacity development initiatives. Prof Mkhize-Kwitshana’s research interest is the Immunology of co-infections, with special interest in immunological modulation of HIV, HPV, TB and oncogenesis by neglected tropical infections. Other areas of interest include the intersection between immunity, microbiome, infection and nutrition. She has been a principal investigator on several research projects and has attracted millions of research grant funding over the years, with several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in these areas. She has established national and international collaborations. She is a recipient of awards including the United Kingdom KIC Immunology Fellowship travel award, the MUT honorary Microbiology Award and others. She serves as a reviewer and editorial board member of international and national scientific journals. She is a member and regional representative of the South African Immunological Society; a Committee member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, she is also a founder of the National NTD Control Task Team, member of the NTD Elimination Forum. Mkhize-Kwitshana served two terms as a Board member (Executive Committee Member) of The South African Medical Research Council Board, a former Board Member of Charles James Hospital and a former additional Executive Member of the Midlands branch of the Society of Medical Laboratory Scientists of South Africa as well as a former head of MUT’s Biomedical Sciences Department.

Dr. Murad Alahdal Graduated from China Pharmaceutical University in basic medicine "Microbiological and Biochemical Pharmacy". Finished a postdoctoral experience at Zhejiang University, School of Medicine. Worked as an assistant research professor at Shenzhen Second People's hospital in the key laboratory centre of tissue engineering and artificial intelligence.

Hafiz Abid Mahmood Malik is a faculty member at Arab Open University Bahrain. He is a "senior Fellow AdvanceHE" (SFHEA) UK. Being a member of IEEE, he served the IEEE Bahrain chapter as Vice-Chair for Students Activities. Dr. Malik has won gold and silver medal in some research poster competitions (national/international). He has received the best paper awards at two international conferences. His area of research covers complex networks, network sciences, mathematical modelling of diseases, and social networks. Dr. Malik is serving some international journals as Editor-in-chief and editorial board member. He has provided his volunteer services to several national/ international conferences as a Technical Committee member, Reviewer, and Secretary, and also acted as a chairperson of an international conference. Dr. Malik has also delivered his talk as a 'Keynote Speaker at international conferences.

Sayani Saha is a graduate student at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. I am Sayani Saha, from India. I did my Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology at NIT Durgapur, India. Currently, I am pursuing my Masters in Biotechnology at Northwestern University. I published this paper during my undergraduate studies and did this research under Dr. Suparna Mandal Biswas's supervision at ISI, based in Kolkata, India. My future aspiration is to pursue Ph.D. in Cancer Progression and Immunotherapies.

Deniz Çağdaş Ayvaz currently works at the Department of Pediatric Immunology, at Hacettepe University. She has worked in departments of Internal medicine, Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, and pediatric Immunology. Her current project is on primary immunodeficiency diseases. She is interested in diseases associated with autoimmunity, immune dysregulation, lymphoproliferative, and cancer pathogenesis as well as transplantation in inborn errors of immunity

I was born and grow up in Iran. I have a bachelor's and master's degree in plant protection and a specialized doctorate in agricultural biotechnology. Furthermore, I worked at the University of Bologna, Italy, as a visiting scholar. I have worked on various topics such as the production of recombinant proteins in various hosts such as microbes and plants, purification of plant viruses from their natural hosts, Drug delivery by means of plant viruses, application of bioinformatics analysis to decipher co-evolution mechanism, heterologous expression of coat proteins of various plant viruses in E.coli system.