Biography
Hai-Feng Ji is currently working as a Professor, in Department of Chemistry, and Drexel University. His research interests focused on drug discovery, MEMS devices, nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications, nanopillars and phosphene for energy applications, and surface chemistry. He is currently a Co-author of 160 peer-viewed journal articles and book chapters. He has an H-index of 30. He is an Editorial board Member of several chemistry journals.
Research Interest
Drug Discovery
Biography
Michael Chorny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics from University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He has received his Doctoral training in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is pursuing his Post-doctoral studies at CHOP. In 2009, he joined the Faculty of Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on development and evaluation of biodegradable nanocarriers for targeted delivery of drugs, gene vectors and cells for cardiovascular disease applications and cancer therapy.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Biography
Carmen Tamayo, MD directs the Canada Region of HeteroGeneity, LLC. Venezuelan by birth and Canadian by citizenship, she trained in internal medicine at the Central University of Venezuela. After moving to Canada with family, she completed postgraduate studies in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. Since 1995, she has actively participated in policy and regulatory activities addressing traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) research, with the Canadian National Cancer Institute. Her consulting has included government, industry, and nonprofit scientific organizations, including HeteroGeneity (since 2008), McMaster University Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, and the University of Western Ontario School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. For Health Canada’s Natural Health Products (NHP) Directorate she served as Clinical Trial Project Coordinator for Product Review and Assessment, collaborating in the Agency’s development of a framework for NHP clinical trials. She has chaired and directed numerous programs and workshops as a member of the Drug Information Association (DIA), The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), and the Latin American phytomedicine society (Sociedad Latinoamericana de Fitomedicina). She also serves as an expert reviewer for the World Health Organization and other international committees and several CAM and Phytotherapy journals, and is a past co-editor of the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine (JICM) – An international forum for evidence-based practices.
Research Interest
Clinical Trials