Organizing Committee
Patron
Dr. Yogesh Singh
Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi
Dr. Digambar Behera
President, National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Prof. Goverdhan Mehta,FRS
Distinguished Professor, University of Hyderabad
Chairman
Prof. Roger D Kornberg
Nobel Laureate, Stanford University, USA
Prof. TMS Chang, FRS[C]
Hon. President, Intl. Society of Nano Medical Sciences
President
Prof. Ramesh Chandra,FRSC,FAMS
Founder Director, Institute of Nano Medical Sciences
Co-Chair
Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain,FNA
National Science Chair, Sharda University
Prof. Nikolay Nifantiev
Professor, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russia
Prof. Bhanu P . Jena
Professor, Wayne State University, USA
General Secretaries
Prof. Indrajit Roy
Director, Institute of Nano Medical Sciences
Dr. Snigdha Singh
Deputy Director, Institute of Nano Medical Sciences
Conveners
Prof. Akilesh K Verma,FNA
Senior Professor, Dep. of Chemistry, University of Delhi
Prof. Shrikant Kukreti
Senior Professor, Dep. of Chemistry, University of Delhi
Dr. Rakeshwar Bandichhor, FRSC
Chief Scientific Officer, Aarti PharmaLabs Ltd., Mumbai
Co-Conveners
Prof. Nidhi Chauhan
Professor, UPES Dehradun
Prof. Jitender Madan
Professor, NIPER Hyderabad
Dr. Suveen Kumar
Assistant Professor, NIPER Ahmedabad
Organizing Secretaries
Dr. Shubham Sewariya
Scientist In-Charge, Institute of Nano Medical Sciences
Dr. Aarushi Singh
Assistant Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
Dr. Ratneshwar K Ratnesh
Asst. Prof., Netaji Subhas University of Technology
Local Organizing Committee
Prof. A. K. Verma
Chemistry Dept., DU
Prof. S. K. Awasthi
Chemistry Dept., DU
Prof. S. Kukreti
Chemistry Dept., DU
Prof. Anju Katyal
ACBR, DU
Prof. Manisha Tiwari
ACBR, DU
Prof. Sunita Hooda
ANDC, DU
Prof. Anita K. Verma
KMC, DU
Prof. Jai Gopal Sharma
Biotech. Dept., DTU
Prof. Prashant Singh
ARSD, DU
Prof. Ritu Kulshrestha
VPCI, DU
Dr. Kamlesh Kumari
Zoology Dept., DU
Dr. Anju Singh
Hindu College, DU
Dr. Vivek
Hindu College, DU
Dr. Rajni Verma
DST INSPIRE Faculty, Institute of Nano Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
International Advisory Committee #
Prof. Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate
Director
Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Prof. Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate
Lewis Thomas University Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine, New
York, USA
Former Director, National Institute of Health &
National Cancer Institute, USA
Prof. Richard Roberts, Nobel Laureate
Chief Scientific Officer
New England Biolabs, Massachusetts, USA
Prof. E. J. Corey, Nobel Laureate
Sheldon Emory Professor Emeritus
Harvard University,
Massachusetts, USA
Prof. Yuan T. Lee, Nobel Laureate
University Professor Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley,
USA
Prof. Tim Hunt, Nobel Laureate
Honorary Scientist
Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Prof. Venky Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
Cambridge, UK
Prof. Jerome I. Friedman, Nobel Laureate
Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
USA
Prof. Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Laureate
President Emeritus
Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind,
Brain and Behaviour
The Rockefeller University, USA
Prof. K. Barry Sharpless, Nobel Laureate
W. M. Keck Professor
Scripps Research Institute, California, USA
Prof. Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Laureate
President, Japan Academy, Tokyo, Japan
Former President, RIKEN,
Saitama, Japan
Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate
Director
Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular
Structure and Assembly
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,
Israel
Prof. Katalin Kariko, Nobel Laureate
Professor
University of Szeged
Szeged, Hungary
Prof. Ben Feringa, Nobel Laureate
Professor
University of Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands
Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi, Nobel Laureate
Baker Family Director, Sarafan Chem-H
Stanford University,
California, USA
Prof. David Baker, Nobel Laureate
Director
Institute for Protein Design
University of Washington,
Seattle, USA
Prof. Minoru Terano
President
Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
(JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan
Prof. Teruo Fujii
President
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Oliver Gunther
President
University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Prof. Itaru Matsumura
President
Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
Prof. Kohei M. Itoh
President
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Miki Sugimura
President
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Yahli Lorch
Associate Professor (Research)
Stanford University, USA
Prof. G. P. Talwar, FNA
Founder Director
Talwar Research Foundation, New Delhi, India
Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, FRS
University Distinguished Professor
University of Hyderabad,
Telangana, India
Prof. R. A. Mashelkar, FRS
National Research Professor
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune,
India
Prof. Ajay Sood, FRS
Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India
Vigyan Bhawan
Annexe, New Delhi, India
Prof. T. P. Singh, FNA
SERB Distinguished Fellow
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS)
New Delhi, India
Prof. Javed Iqbal, FNA
Director
Peptomedica Biotech, Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, FNA
Institute Chair Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
U.P., India
Prof. Chennupati Jagadish
President
Australian Academy of Sciences, Australia
Prof. Sekhar C. Mande, FNA
President
Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India
Prof. Vinod K Singh, FNA
President
National Academy of Sciences, Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. G. D. Yadav, FNA
President
Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Prof. Digambar Behera, FAMS
President
National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Prof. David Harel
President
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama
Chairman
Science & Technology in Society (STS) Forum Tokyo,
Japan
Prof. Deresh Ramjugernath
Rector and Vice Chancellor
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Prof. Michal Lošťák
Vice Rector for International Relations
Czech University of Life
Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. John Sarrao
Director
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford
University, California, USA
Prof. Michael Hoch
Rector
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Prof. Sunil Maharaj
Vice Principal Research Innovation and Postgraduate
Education
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Hayashi Mikako
Executive Vice President (International Affairs)
University of
Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Prof. Antoinette de Bont
Rector Magnificus
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Prof. Ksenia Chmutina
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Impact and
Internationalisation)
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Dr. Takayumi Homma
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Waseda University,
Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Brendan M. Walsh
Senior Associate Provost Global Strategy
Yale University,
Connecticut, USA
Prof. Isabel Capeloa Gil
Rector
Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
Prof. Myra Conway
Associate Provost Innovation and Research
University of Derby,
United Kingdom
Prof. Toomas Asser
Rector
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Ms. Susanne Caarls
Head of Unit - European and International Research &
Science
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Hague,
Netherlands
Prof. Natalies Konomi
Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity
Kyushu
University, Japan
Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf, FRS
President, International Science Council
Former Minister of
Education, Netherlands
Prof. Fatma Al Jasmi
Dean, College of Medicine and Health Sciences
United Arab Emirates
University, UAE
Prof. Edward Anderson
Head of Organic Chemistry
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Derrick J. Clive
Professor
University of Alberta, Canada
Prof. Peter Rijnbeek
Professor & Head of Department of Medical Informatics
Erasmus
MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Bhanu P. Jena
George E. Palade University Professor & Distinguished
Professor
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA
Prof. Michal Tomza
Professor
University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Paras N Prasad
SUNY Distinguished Professor & Executive Director of
ILPB
University at Buffalo, USA
Prof. Satya Prakash
Professor
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Prof. Andrei Zvyagin
Director of the Research Centre of Bioimaging
Sechenov University,
Moscow, Russia
Prof. Ken-Tye Yong
Associate Dean (External Engagement) & Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. Sushanta Mitra
Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for
Nanotechnology
University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. Benjamin Wolzin
Professor
Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Prof. Alicia El Haj
Interdisciplinary Chair in Cell Engineering
University of
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Dr. Christopher Cioffi
Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Prof. Anirban Maitra
Director, Perlmutter Cancer Center
New York University, USA
Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia
John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), USA
Prof. Nagendra Kaushik
Professor
Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea
Prof. Christoph Arenz
Professor
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Prof. Esther Breslow
Professor Emerita of Biochemistry
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Prof. M. M. Sharma, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Eminence
Former Director, ICT Mumbai, India
Dr. Tapas Sen
Reader
University of Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
Prof. Yukihiko Kazao
Director General
Science & Technology in Society (STS) Forum,
Japan
Prof. Yu Serizawa
Director General for International Affairs
STS Forum, Japan
Prof. Ram B. Gupta
Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Dr. Alireza Ghanbarpour
Assistant Professor
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
National Advisory Committee #
Dr. R. Venkataramani
Attorney General for India
Supreme Court of India, New Delhi,
India
Prof. Vaidya R. Kotecha
Secretary
Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India
Prof. Ganesh Pandey, FNA
Distinguished Professor
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Prof. D. D. Sarma, FNA
Honorary Professor and CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India
Prof. Soumya Swaminathan, FNA
Principal Advisor, National Tuberculosis Elimination
Programme
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India
Prof. Gobardhan Das, FNASc
Director
Indian Institute of Science Education & Research
(IISER) Bhopal, Bhopal, India
Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya, FNA
Director
IISER Tirupati, India
Prof. Shailendra Saraf
Director
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and
Research, Ahmedabad, India
Mr. P. K. Gupta
Founder and Chancellor
Sharda University, Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Vibha Tandon
Director
CSIR IICB, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Dr. Radha Rangarajan
Director
CSIR CDRI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Alok Dhawan
Director
CBMR Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Soniya Nityanand
Vice Chancellor
King George Medical University, Lucknow, India
Dr. Sudhir Chandna
Director
Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied
Sciences
New Delhi, India
Prof. Sunit K. Singh, FAMS
Director
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Institute for Biomedical Research,
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Prof. Raj Kumar, FAMS
Director
Vallabhbhai Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi,
India
Prof. Anindya Datta, FNASc
Director
Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) Mohali,
Punjab, India
Prof. P. B. Sharma
Vice Chancellor
Amity University Gurugram, Haryana, India
Prof. Achyuta Samanta
Founder
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneswar,
Odisha, India
Prof. Ranjan Bose
Director
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi,
New Delhi, India
Prof. Rajendra Prasad, FNA
Former Rector
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Prof. Sandeep Verma, FNA
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar
Pradesh, India
Dr. Atul Chauhan
Chancellor
Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Samir V. Kamat
Chairman
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), New
Delhi, India
Prof. Rajiv Gupta, FASc
Chief Executive Officer (IoE) & Head, Department of
Chemistry
University of Delhi
Prof. V. Haridas
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi,
India
Prof. Shailja Singh
Professor
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
Prof. Neetu Singh
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi,
India
Prof. B. C. Das, FNA
Dean, Faculty of Health & Allied Sciences
Amity University,
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. K. C. Gupta, FNA
INSA Senior Scientist
Department of Chemistry, University of
Delhi, New Delhi, India
Dr. Ajay K. Dewan
Director, Surgical Oncology
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and
Research Centre, Delhi, India
Prof. Rambir Singh
Professor
Mizoram University, Mizoram, India
Prof. Anil K. Mishra
Head, Division of Cyclotron and Radiopharmaceutical Sciences
INMAS
DRDO, Delhi, India
Dr. Utkarsh Jain
Associate Professor
UPES Dehradun, Dehradun, India
Industries #
Dr. Sudharshan Arora
Founding Partner, Suingora Consulting LLP
Gurugram,
India
Former President R&D, Ranbaxy & Lupin
Dr. Dhileep Krishnamurthy
Head of Operations, Project Management & CMC
Princeton South,
USA
Former CSO, Jubilant Ingrevia
Dr. Swati Dumitras
Global Head Biomarker Development
Novartis, Switzerland
Prof. Peter T. Halpin
Chief Executive Officer
World Resources Company, USA
Dr. Saád Al-khatein
Executive Officer & Deputy Managing Director
Aramco Asia Japan
Dr. Hugh Thompson
Executive Chairman, RSAC
Managing Partner, Crosspoint Capital
Dr. Henry A McKinnell
Chairman
North American Associates of STS Forum
Dr. Alok Tayi
Co-founder & CEO
Vibe Bio, USA
Prof. Pavel Kabat
Secretary General
Human Frontier Science Program
Prof. Sudip S. Parikh
CEO
American Association for Advancement of Science
Mr. Uday Punj
Managing Director
Chimes Pvt Ltd, India
Dr. Satoshi Konishi
President & CEO
KDDI Research, Japan
Dr. Edward Moses
Founder & CEO
Fusion Energy Systems, USA
Dr. Rajeev Gautam
President
HORIBA India Pvt Ltd
Dr. Mayasuki Adachi
President & COO
HORIBA Ltd, Japan
Mr. Demetris Skourides
Chief Scientist
Cyprus
Mr. Theodoros Loukaidis
Director General
Cyprus
Dr. Harrick Vin
Chief Technology Officer
Tata Consultancy Services
Shivani Sharma
Global Head Marketing – Innovation
TCS
Mr. Anurag Sharma
Joint Managing Director
Shree Baidyanath Ayurved Bhawan Pvt Ltd
Local Advisory Committee
Prof. Ranjana Aggarwal
Outstanding Scientist
Former Director, CSIR NIScPR, New Delhi,
India
Prof. Akhilesh K. Verma, FNA
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Delhi, New Delhi,
India
Prof. Satish K. Awasthi
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Delhi, New Delhi,
India
Prof. Shrikant Kukreti
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Delhi, New Delhi,
India
Prof. Anju Katyal
Professor
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, Delhi
Prof. Manisha Tiwari
Professor
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, Delhi
Prof. Sunita Hooda
Professor
Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi
Prof. Anita K. Verma
Professor (Retired)
Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi
Prof. Dinabandhu Sahu
Professor, Department of Botany
University of Delhi
Prof. Jai Gopal Sharma
Professor, Biotechnology
Delhi Technological University
Prof. Prashant Singh
Professor
ARSD College, University of Delhi
Prof. Ritu Kulshrestha
Professor
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
Dr. Sonal Singh
Assistant Professor
Delhi Technological University
Dr. Umer Ashraf
Assistant Professor
Delhi Technological University
# Confirmation awaited