Omid Panahi was graduated from Centro Escolar University in 2013 in the field of Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD), and MSc Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has published 8 books and more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of ISI journals.

Research interests:Regenerative dentistry, tissue bioengineering, oral surgery.

Elena Salvaterra is a bioethicist with a deep experience in human and non human biobanking. She earned a Ph.D in Bioethics in 2004 (University of Milano, Italy) and a MA in Clinical Psychology (2020). She worked many years in the research field as bioethicist by serving academic and health care organizations.

Clinical Psychology, human biobanking

He is a Professor in pharmacology department of Uiversity of Illinois, Chicago

Recovery of endothelial barrier integrity after vascular injury is vital for endothelial barrier function and vascular homeostasis. Endothelial dysfunction plays a critical role in the initiation and progression of vascular diseases such as acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome, and atherosclerosis. A part of the research in the lab is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of endothelial regeneration and restoration of endothelial barrier integrity following inflammatory lung vascular injury, understand the mechanisms of action of stem/endothelial progenitor cells-mediated endothelial regeneration, vascular repair, and neovascularization using the unique mouse model with endothelial cell-restricted deletion of FoxM1 (JCI, 116:2333-43, 2006; JEM, 207:1675-85, 2010) and other genetically modified animal models

Esmaiel Jabbari completed his PhD at Purdue University and postdoctoral studies at Monsanto, Rice University, and Mayo Clinic. He is Full Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at University of South Carolina. He is internationally known for his work on synthesis and processing of cell-responsive polymers and hydrogels for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He received the Berton Rahn Award from the AO Foundation in 2012 and the Stephen Milam Award from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation in 2008. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2013. He has published >230 books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference proceedings, and presented >260 seminars at national and international conferences on biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. He has mentored >130 visiting scholars, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students, and undergraduate students. He is a member of numerous scientific organizations including BMES, SFB, TERMIS, MRS, EMBS, ACS, AIChE, and AACR.

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Diana is director of the Anderson University Center for Cancer Research and is excited about the research opportunities it can offer, as well as the local internships she can refer students to.She is a Director of Education at Susan G. Komen Mountains to Midlands Affiliate.

Biology, Cellular Biology, Genetics, Microbiology

Roger R. Markwald, Ph.D., MUSC Cell Biology and Anatomy Department chairman and professor, received the American Association of Anatomy’s highest scientific accolade on April 5 during its annual meeting in San Diego. The Henry Gray award was co-sponsored by the American Association of Anatomists and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, which recognizes unique and meritorious contributions and achievements in the field of Anatomical Sciences by a distinguished AAA member.

My laboratory has pursued studies on the cell and molecular mechanisms of heart development that utilized in vivo dynamic labeling studies to demonstrate that heart development is progressive, irreversible and occurs by the addition of new segments including ones derived from extracardiac sources. Three dimensional culture assays were also developed that faithfully recapitulated in vivo morphogenetic processes which permitted identification of: (1) a novel heart forming field that gave origin to the outflow track at the arterial pole of the heart (, (2) specific growth factors of the TGFβ supergene as inducers of the outflow track and the transformation of specific populations of endothelial cells into multiple progenitor cells of internal partitions that divide the heart into right and left sides a and their respective valves and (3) specific matricellular proteins (periostin and CCN1,2) as ligands that activate integrin-linked, nodal intracellular kinase pathways in valvuloseptal progenitor cells that promote their differentiation into fibroblasts and regulate cytoskeletal changes that promote their remodeling into sculpted leaflets. Modifications of the culture system have also permitted the functional assessment of the viscoelastic properties of developing valves and the role of biomechanical signaling in cardiac cell and matrix differentiation.

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He Controlled cardiac lineage differentiation of embryonic stem cells, iPSCs & adult cardiac stem cells, iPSC reprograming and characterization Electrophysiological and functional maturity of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, Stem cell tissue engineering and Applications and mechanisms of stem cell-based therapy for cardiovascular diseases