Program Committee



Honorary Chairperson

Congress President


Dr. Aaron Ciechanover,
Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry,
2004

Dr. H. Michael Shepard,
Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Laureate, 2019

Dr. Davor Solter,
Gairdner Award Laureate,
2018

Dr. Xiaodan Mei,
President,
BIT Congress lnc.

Dr. Akira ARIMOTO,
Director & Professor, Hyogo University, Japan
Dr. Arthur Coren,
President and Vice Chancellor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
Dr. Azanam Shah Hashim,
Deputy President, Universiti Kuala Lumpeur, Malaysia
Dr. Heather Bandeen,
Director, Inver Hills Community College, USA
Dr. Heather Eggins,
Director of Society for Research into Higher Education; Professor, Cambridge University, UK
Dr. Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid,
Deputy Vice Chancellor, INTI-Laureate International Universities, Malaysia
Dr. James A. Hyatt,
Vice Chancellor and CFO Emeritus; Associate Director Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr. James Conroy,
Vice Principal, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr. Joshua Lange,
Executive Director, University College London, UK
Dr. Julia V. Clark,
Program Director, National Science Foundation, USA
Dr. Juliet Stoltenkamp,
Director, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Dr. Katy Campbell,
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Keith Tong,
Keith Tong, Director, Center for Language Education, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Leena Alalääkkölä,
Director, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Dr. M' hammed Abdous,
Director, Old Dominion University, USA
Dr. Marja Sutela,
Vice President, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Dr. Mary Ellen Beliveau,
Chief Executive Officer, Knowledge to Practice, USA
Dr. Michael Fung,
Group Director & Chief Data Officer, Skills Future, Singapore
Dr. Mike Lacktorin,
Founding Dean, International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA), Yamanashi Gakuin University, Japan
Dr. Ng Ching-Fai,
President, United International College, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Peer M. Sathikh,
Associate Chair at School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang, Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Prosper M. Bernard, 
President, University Consortium of Americas, USA
Dr. Roland Reichenbach, 
Vice-chairman of Association for Education and Knowledge; Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, 
Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, 2014
Dr. Sinikka Neuhaus, 
Dean of Education, Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Stefan Nowicki, 
Director, Centre for Distance Learning, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Dr. Steve J. Cannon, 
Executive Vice President, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Stuart Perrin, 
Dean, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Dr. Takayuki Nakamura, 
President, Fukushima National College of Technology, Japan
Dr. Youmin Xi, 
Vice President, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Dr. Yukari Nagai, 
Vice President, School of Knowledge Science, Human Life Design Area, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Zainal Bin Abu Zarim, 
Vice President, Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Malaysia
Dr. Alan Xiao, Director, 
Clinical Pharmacology and DMPK, AstraZeneca, USA
Dr. Alireza Heidari, 
Full Professor and Director, California South University, USA
Dr. Anfan Wu, 
Head of Early Development, Roche R&D Center, China
Dr. Chingjer Chang, 
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University, USA
Dr. Christopher R. Triggle, 
Professor of Pharmacology &Assistant Dean Admissions, Departments of Medical Education and Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Qatar
Dr. Claude Nicolau, 
Professor, Friedman School Tufts University, USA
Dr. Cynthia Siu, 
Vice President, Data Power (DP), Inc, USA
Dr. David F. Woodward, 
Senior Director, Department of Biological Sciences, Allergan Inc., USA
Dr. Dexian Zheng, 
Professor, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
Dr. Gayane Badalian Very, 
Scientist, Division of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA 
Dr. Georg Rueedi, 
Associate Director, Anti-Infectives Chemistry, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Switzerland
Dr. Georgia Z. Chen, 
Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University, USA 
Dr. Grace Wong, CEO,
ActoKine Therapeutics, USA
Dr. Helen G. Durkin, 
Professor of Pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, USA
Dr. Iwao Ojima, 
Distinguished Professor, Director, Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University, USA
Dr. Jan de Sonneville, 
Founder and CEO, Life Science Methods BV, the Netherlands
Dr. Jian Wu, 
Distinguished Professor, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, China
Dr. Jung S. Huang, 
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Karol Jackowski, 
Full Professor of Chemistry, Laboratory of NMR Spectroscopy, Warsaw University, Poland
Dr. Kathryn Uhrich, 
Professor and Dean, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Rutgers University, USA
Dr. Lars-Gunnar Larsson, 
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Dr. Li-Jun Yang, 
Associate Professor, Division of Hematopathology, University of Florida College of Medicine, USA
Dr. May Orfali, 
Senior Director, Rare Diseases Department, Pfizer, USA
Dr. Min Liu, 
Professor, Department of Pathology, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati, USA 
Dr. Mingde Xia, 
Senior Director, Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center, USA
Dr. Niro Ramachandran, 
R&D Manager, Life Technologies, USA
Dr. Parviz Ghahramani, 
Vice President, Head of Early Development, Forest Research Institute, USA
Dr. QimingJane Wang, 
Vice Chair of Regulatory Affairs, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Rivka Ravid, 
Director, Brain Bank Consultants, Netherlands
Dr. Rolf G. Werner, 
Professor, EberhardKarls University of Tuebingen, Germany
Dr. Thomas Högberg, 
Senior Scientific Advisor, LEO Pharma, Denmark
Dr. Udo Maier, 
Head of Target Discovery Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Dr. Walter E Müller, 
Professor, University Frankfurt Biocenter, Germany
Dr. Willem J Riedel, 
Vice President of Science, Cambridge Cognition Ltd, UK
Dr. Xi Yang, 
Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and the Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Canada
Dr. Xiaowu Liang, 
CEO, Antigen Discovery Inc., USA 
Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang, 
Senior Scientist and Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Zhenping Zhu, 
Executive Vice President, Global Biopharmaceuticals, Kadmon Corporation, USA
Dr. ZhihongXu, 
Associate Professor, St. Cloud State University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke University, USA