Distinguished Speaker

Abhay Pandit

 Professor of Biomaterials, Founding Director of CÚRAM (Centre for Research in Medical Devices), University of Galway, Ireland

Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, and Regenerative Medicine

Ananth Grama

 Samuel D. Conte Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA

Parallel Computing, Algorithms and Machine Learning

Arvind Pathak

 Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Functional Imaging and Image-Based Biomarkers

Jugnu Jain

 Co-founder & CEO, Sapien Biosciences

Biobanking, sample annotation, genetics, and personalized medicine

Natarajan Muthusamy

 Professor, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University, USA

Leukemic Stem Cell Biology

Nitin Gupta

 Joy Gill Chair Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur

Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Neural Systems

Rahul Purwar

 Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay

Tumour Immunology and Cell Therapy

Sanjeeva Srivastava

 Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay

Clinical Proteomics and Biomarker Discovery

Saravanan Matheshwaran

 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur

Bacterial Stress Response and Antimicrobial Resistance

Saugata Hazra

 Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Roorkee

Structural Biology and Antimicrobial Resistance

Shankar Subramaniam

 Distinguished Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, USA

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Systems Medicine

Sharmila Mande

 Ayush Distinguished Chair for Ayurveda Biology and Basic Sciences, Ministry of Ayush

Microbiome Informatics and Computational Biology

Shashank Purwar

 Professor, Department of Microbiology, AIIMS Bhopal

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Resistance

Shekhar C. Mande

 President, Indian National Science Academy (INSA)

Structural and Computational Biology of Pathogens

Suman Chakraborty

 Director, IIT Kharagpur; Institute Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Microfluidics for Affordable Healthcare Technologies

Sunil Raghav

 Senior Scientist, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar

Immuno-Genomics and Gene Regulation

Tapas Kumar Kundu

 Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore

Epigenetics, Disease Biology and Therapeutics



Distinguished Panelists

Apurva Sarin

 CEO, WT/DBT India Alliance

Cell Death, Survival Signalling and Immunology

Mukesh Kumar

 Chief Scientific Officer, CLINEXEL

Clinical Development and Clinical Pharmacology

Pratishtha T Pandey, PhD

 Scientist 'G' & Head of Scientific Division, R&D Infrastructure, Department of Science and Technology, GOI

Taruna Madan Gupta

 Scientist G, Head, Division of Development Research, Indian Council of Medical Research

Innate immunity and host-pathogen interactions