- Keynote Lectures
Samuel A. EgieyehPh.D - PharmacistDr. Samuel Ayodele Egieyeh is a seasoned and highly experienced pharmacist (qualified in 1997) with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Pharmacy, and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. He also has a post-graduate diploma in clinical research and drug development from the University of Basel, Basel Switzerland. He is currently a senior lecturer at the discipline of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town South Africa. He leads the Computational Pharmacology and Cheminformatics Group (CPCG). His research focuses on computational drug discovery and design; data science (including cheminformatics, bioinformatics, machine learning and biostatistics techniques) for predictive drug development and precision medicine for infectious and non-communicable diseases. His presentation will show the use of data science in drug discovery and development, therapeutics, and precision medicine. The presentation will also introduce the “University of the Western Cape’s Computational Pharmacology and Chemoinformatic Platform” that is used to analyse hit compounds from high-throughput assays (HTS) available in public bioactivity databases. The platform provides data analytics and data mining tools for researchers in drug discovery and design to analyse and mine useful data from their in vitro experiments in order to make rational and viable drug discovery and design decisions.
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Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani
Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani is a Full Professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) and São Paulo Academy of Science (ACIESP), is also Science Productivity CNPq Fellow level 1A, and has received several awards; the most recently is Distinguished Woman in Science Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, conceived by ACS & IUPAC and Simão Mathias Medal and Elsevier-Capes in 2013. With Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, under guidance of Professor Otto Richard Gottlieb, at University of São Paulo, in 1990 she was awarded with a fellowship from DAAD for a short training at University of Hannover. After a post-doctorate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPISU-USA) under guidance of Professor David Kingston, she joined the São Paulo State University (UNESP), and since 2003, is member of the Biota-FAPESP Program Coordination. Currently is Director of the UNESP Technology Transfer Office (UNESP-AUIN). Her field of interest is plant science, and has been involved in the isolation, bioactivity and function of secondary metabolites and peptides from plants. Also she has studied biosynthesis of piperidine alkaloids, and recently has been involved in metabolomics of medicinal plants. She has had strong involvement in human resource training, with 0ver 50 Master and Ph.D. students and several Post-doctoral supervisions. She has been invited to give lectures and seminars Worldwide. Has published more than 203 articles (Index h=26, 2522 citations) 5 book chapters and 7 patents. Also has strong work collaboration with National Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industries looking for new drugs from plant species. Dr. Bolzani was President of the Brazilian Chemical Society from 2008-2010, and is currently Counselor. She serves as member of Editorial Boards of several Scientific Journals as Journal Natural Products, Natural Products Reports, Phytochemistry Letters and Journal of Ethnopharmacology. Since 2011 is a Visiting Professor at the Enzymologie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle UR4-UPMC, Paris, and in 2012 she became a member of the L'Oreal Scientific Advisory Board. In October 2013 was elected for the World Academy of Science for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS).
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Andres Vasquez
Profile will be out soon
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Daniel Madulu ShadrackDaniel Madulu Shadrack is a trained chemist, he holds a PhD in Computational Biophysics. He works with the St John’s University of Tanzania, Dodoma Tanzania. Daniel’s research focuses on the use of computational methods such as molecular dynamics, metadynamics, free energy methods and molecular docking to understand biomolecular process towards drug design. Over the past five years, Daniel has acted the role as the Director and co-organizer of the Biophysics schools in Africa, of which the school has trained over 100 young scientists across the continent. Daniel has established several networks and research contacts across the world, the active network and collaborations are from Italy, Canada, South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon, Malawi and Ghana. Daniel is a Co-PI of three research projects, two projects in COVID-19 and one on malaria. Both projects involve the use of different computational and experimental techniques to identify small molecules as potential drugs.
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- Young Investigator
- Round Table Discussion
- Hands-On Presenter
