Macklis is the Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, and Professor of Neurology [Neuroscience] at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and was founding Program Head, Neuroscience, Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He is (co-)Director of the Developmental and Regenerative Biology Ph.D. Program at Harvard University. He is an M.I.T. faculty member in the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). His lab is directed toward both: 1) understanding molecular controls and mechanisms over neuron sub-type specification, development, diversity, axon guidance-circuit formation, and degeneration in the cerebral cortex; and 2) applying developmental controls toward both brain and spinal cord regeneration and directed differentiation for in vitro therapeutic and mechanistic screening. The lab focuses on neocortical projection neuron development and sub-type specification; neural progenitor / "stem cell" biology; induction of adult cortical neurogenesis; subtype-specific axonal growth cone biology; and directed neuronal subtype differentiation via molecular manipulation of neural progenitors and pluripotent cells (ES/iPS). He attended M.I.T. (S.B. Bioelectrical Engineering; S.B. Literature), Harvard Medical School (Harvard-M.I.T. HST Program), and graduate school at M.I.T. within HST, a student of Richard L. Sidman. He was a postdoctoral fellow in developmental neuroscience at HMS, where he also trained clinically in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Neurology in the Harvard Neurological Training Program (no longer clinically active). He is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Award, a Director's Innovation Award from the NIH Director's Office, the CNS Foundation Award, a Senator Jacob Javits (MERIT) Award in the Neurosciences from NINDS/NIH, the CajalKrieg Cortical Discoverer Prize. He is an Allen Distinguished Investigator of the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a Brain Research Foundation Fellow, and recipient of a 2017 NIH Pioneer Award from the Office of the NIH Director.

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Dr. Howard E. Gendelman is the Margaret R. Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience and director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Gendelman is credited with unraveling how functional alterations in brain immunity induce metabolic changes and ultimately lead to neural cell damage across a broad range of infectious, metabolic, and neurodegenerative disorders. These discoveries have had broad implications on developmental therapeutics aimed at preventing, slowing, or reversing neural maladies. He is also credited with demonstrating that AIDS dementia is a reversible metabolic encephalopathy. His work has led to novel immunotherapy strategies for Parkinson's disease that have been successfully tested in early clinical trials as a result of translational investigations.

Susana J. Pasquare is 1) full professor of Biological Chemistry II at Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Argentina, 2) professor in charge of two postgraduate courses at UNS, and 3) collaborating professor of the Diploma Course in Medicinal Cannabis at Universidad Nacional Arturo Jaureche (UNAJ) and a postgraduate course at the School of Medical Sciences of Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She is a researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones BioquImicas de BahIa Blanca (INIBIBB), an Argentinean research center depending on CONICET and UNS, where she is Director of the Laboratory of Cannabinology and is also in charge of CONICET High Technological Level Service "Determination of the composition of plant-origin products and their derivatives". Her field of research on endoncannabinoids was initiated in 2007 with a study on the endocannabinoid system (ECS) in physiological neurodegenerative processes in an in vivo normal aging model. She further studied ECS in pathological neurodegenerative processes in in vitro models of βA-induced neuronal injury. A new line of research was also initiated in her lab for the study of ECS regulation in the visual process. At present her studies are centered on elucidating whether ECS is altered in the injury induced by high light intensity by exploring its regulation through the action of neuromodulators and complete extracts derived either from Cannabis sp. plant with different phytocannabinoid composition or from its pure active principles. She was awarded 1) a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship granted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Argentina) - Carolina Foundation (Spain) for a stay at Instituto Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain; 2) an Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Fellowship for a stay at University of Deusto, Spain; and 3) a prize and grant from Florencio Fiorini Foundation and the National Academy of Medicine (Argentina) to conduct research in Biomedical Sciences. She has extensive experience in human resource training, has been awarded several grants, is author of 44 publications in high-impact journals, has been invited to lecture at several international and national scientific meetings, being in some of them member of their Scientific Committee, and has been in charge of several evaluation commitments.

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Dr. Kazuhide Inoue is the University Professor, The Institute for Advanced Study of Kyushu University. Professor Inoue has published hundreds of papers on the subject of the function of purinergic receptors in CNS, especially in pain signaling. He found that P2X4 receptors in spinal microglia has important role in the expression of neuropathic pain that is often refractory to treatment with NSAIDs and opioids. In 1975, he graduated School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, and 1978 he started to research at National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan. He studied abroad in NIH, USA as a visiting fellow from 1985 until 1987, and in University College London as an honorary research fellow from 1991 till 1992. In 2000, he became a professor of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University. From 2014 till 2020, he worked as the Executive Vice-President of Kyushu University. He was awarded Science Technology Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan in 2007, the 3rd Setsuro Ebashi Prize of The Japanese Pharmacological Society in 2010, Medal from His Majesty the Spanish Emperor as an honor of Royal Academy of Pharmacy in 2010, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award in 2013, and Medal with Purple Ribbon from His Majesty the Emperor in 2014.

Dr. Sungchil Yang achieved PhD in the department of molecular and integrative physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana & Champaign, studying a biophysical role of individual auditory neurons (from cochlear nucleus to auditory cortex) in auditory information processing under the supervision of Dr. Albert S. Feng. Then, Dr. Yang joined Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute of University of California at Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow, studying mechanisms of an auditory phantom pain, tinnitus, with Dr. Shaowen Bao. His research regarding the sensory system continued in Center for Integrative Neuroscience of University of California at San Francisco as a research associate, studying a role of axon initial segment of auditory neurons in information processing and a cellular basis of perceptual learning with Dr. Kevin J. Bender and Christoph E. Schreiner, respectively. Then, he joined the Department of Neuroscience in City University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Uqbah Iqbal is a Socioeconomic Researcher at Research for Social Advancement. Winning Second Place in Malaysian Historical Essay Writing Competition 2013, he was the recipient of Research University Fellowship Scheme, Graduate on Time Award and Outstanding Student Award from Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities as well as the Youngest Ph.D. in History Holder and the only Malaysian achieved a Ph.D. in History in conjunction with the 43rd Convocation of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He's authoring notable books/ebooks such as The Historical Development of the Malay Nationalism Before Independence, The Historical Development of the Malay Society Economic Nature During Pre-Colonial Era, The Historical Development of British Investment in Malaya Before the Second World War, The Historical Development of Foreign Investment in the Formation of the Malaysian Economy and Sejarah Pemikiran Pandang Ke Timur: Kepentingan Jepun Dalam Pembangunan Sosio-Ekonomi Malaysia (1906-1980). His publications have appeared in a wide range of international and national journals such as TAWARIKH, SUSURGALUR, Management and Administrative Sciences Review, Social and Basic Sciences Research Review, Jurnal Kemanusiaan, Jurnal Sejarah, Jurnal Pengajian Melayu, Jebat, International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Asian Social Science and Geografia. He's also actively in the editorial board such as Asian Social Science, International Journal of Art and Literature, International Journal of Archaeology and History, American Journal of Social Sciences, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, History Research and Pratidhwani the Echo. Through his involvement as a reviewer with the Nonfiction Authors Association, 15 of his reviewed books received Awards.