Program Committee
Honorary Chairperson |
Congress President |
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![]() 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 |