20^th International Conference on Computer Aided Drug Designing and Drug Delivery September 24-25, 2018 Holiday Inn Chicago O’Hare Area 5615 North Cumberland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60631

Edwin Moore has 40 years of biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, and clinical diagnostic industry experience from global companies, Baxter Healthcare Corp and Abbott Laboratories, in R&D product development. Since retiring he has enjoyed research, teaching, and mentoring startup companies at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana campus, and consulting with BioPhia Consulting, Inc. He was a postdoc at University of Michigan, and received his PhD from Cornell University in Biochemistry, B.S. from University of Illinois in Biochemistry.

biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, and clinical diagnostic industry

Tatsuya TAKAGI has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 32 from Osaka University. At that time, he had been an Assistant Professor of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University for 5 years. Then, since 1993, he had worked for the Genome Information Research Center, Osaka University as an Associate Professor until he became a Professor of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University in 1998. He has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals and had served as Chairman of Division of Structure-Activity Relationship of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan for three years (until March 2017)

Genome Information Research

Dr. Luke Fisher background brings twenty years of experience in scientific informatics solutions. Managing Pre-Sales, Post-Sales and working in Account Management has expanded my domain knowledge of scientific informatics and provided me the ability to maintain a successful track record. I have covered a broad range of clients including the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, agricultural, chemicals, academic and government labs. I have extensive experience in scientific software solutions from the smaller scale deployment of point solutions like molecular modeling packages to the larger enterprise scale of ELNs, scientific workflow technologies, data content, analysis and visualization. My background also includes managing the support complexity of software integration strategies based on numerous mergers and acquisitions.

pharmaceutical, biotech, agricultural, chemicals, academic and government labs

Rick joined WuXi AppTec in 2015 to provide scientific leadership for 160 scientists in developability, formulation development, GMP manufacturing and is responsible for the execution of all parenteral and oral dosage form programs. Prior to joining WuXi, Rick was Global Head of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Profiling at Novartis, where he led the development and implementation of innovative dosage form designs and continuous manufacturing paradigms. Rick has led groups in formulation, research and development at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Symbollon Pharmaceuticals, Biogen and Baush & Lomb. In addition to his current position at WuXi, Rick is an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.

Pharmaceutical Development

Michael Song is the head of Device Functionality, Safety and Digital Connectivity at MedImmune, a Member of the AstraZeneca Group. In his current role, he oversees device functionality and safety; primary container science and technology; biocompatibility; container closure integrity; and digital connectivity development. Prior to his current role, Michael was head of Device and Package Engineering department at Adello Biologics. He also has held key engineering and toxicology SME positions at Stryker and Kavlico, a member of Schneider Electric. Michael holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and PhD in Neuroscience and Toxicology from Iowa State University.

Device Functionality, Safety, and Digital Connectivity Dosage Form Design and Development BioPharmaceutical Development

Prof. Bijoy K Kuanr received the Ph.D. degree in "Microwave materials & Devices" in Electronic in 1993. He has more than 20 years of research experience in India as well as in various laboratories in Germany and USA. From 1994-96, he joined the Microwave Laboratory of Professor Dr. Güther Nimtz at University of Koeln, Germany as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. From 1999-2001 he worked with Professor Dr. Peter Grünberg - (Nobel Laureate - Physics 2007) as a guest scientist in GMR-Sensor project. In 2002 he joined University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as a senior Researcher till 2013. His main research deals with electromagnetic theory and measurement techniques applied to materials, devices, and circuits at microwave, millimeter-wave.

Drug Delivery Chemistry

Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Pharmaceutics, Lecturing, Educational Technology, Curriculum Development, and Academic Writing. Strong education professional with a PhD (Joint Supervision with Faculty of Pharmacy, Alazhar University, Egypt) focused in Pharmaceutics from School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-madison.

Physical Pharmacy, Stability and kinetics, Liquid dosage forms, Solid Dosage forms, Drug delivery, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics.

Ebtisam Aldaais is one of the first Saudi women that have a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the University of South Carolina. In 2012, she got her Master’s degree in Physics. Dr. Aldaais has more than 18 years of experience in teaching, developing material courses, research, performing quality assurance for LINAC machines, and modeling polymeric biomaterials and drug delivery systems. She works as an assistant professor at the biomedical engineering department at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, as well as a visiting assistant professor at the department of physics & astronomy at University of South Carolina.

Performing quality assurance for LINAC machines, and modeling polymeric biomaterials and drug delivery systems