Biography
Bekir Cinar completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA (2002-2006) and Ph.D. from Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1995-2002), D.V.M., Veterinary Medical School, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey (1987-1992). Currently he is working as Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Clark Atlanta University (CAU), Atlanta, GA 2015 to present. Presently, He is also member of the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development at CAU and a member of the NCI-designated Winship Comprehensive Cancer Center at Emory University. Prior to joining CAU, Dr. Cinar was Assistant Professor of Medicine-Hematology/Oncology and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was a member of Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.
Research Interest
His research focus is on signal transduction and gene expression mechanisms relevant to cancer development, progression, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance in disease models, particularly prostate cancer, which is a leading causes of cancer deaths among men in the United States and Western countries. Currently, my laboratory studies the Hippo-YAP-AR signaling axis to understand the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer progression, metastasis and acquired resistance. His laboratory utilizes variety of complementary approaches including proteomics, genomics and bioinformatics as well cell cultures including 3D cultures, animal models and clinical samples to carry out the proposed research. His research focus is on Signal Transduction, gene Expression, genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, 3DCell Cultures
Biography
Dr. Nadia Benkirane is Research director and head of the “ Osteoarticular and Dental regenerative Nanomedicine†laboratory, at INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), UMR 1109, Strasbourg, France. She was leader of “Active Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering†team INSERM 977. She received her Ph.D. from University Louis Pasteur, ULP, Strasbourg, France for the work on Development of pseudopeptides as synthetic vaccines. Dr. Jessel (Benkirane) then held a postdoctoral position in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, working on Immunotherapy HIV, and another postdoctoral position on the application of modified peptides as vaccines against FMDV (Plum Island Animal Disease Center, ARS, USDA, Greenport, NY 11944-0848, USA). She joined the INSERM U595 in 2002 as a post-doc, and received the diploma to direct the research (HDR) in 2004. Dr. Jessel got the permanent position (CR1) in the INSERM 595 laboratory in 2004 and Research Director (DR2) position in the INSERM 977 and head of “active Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering team from 2009 until 2012). Currently Research Director (DR1) in the INSERM UMR 1109 (Osteoarticular and Dental Regenerative Nanomedicine" and heads the team. Dr. Jessel possesses expertise in diverse fields of molecular and cellular biology, immunochemistry, tissue engineering and biomedical engineering. In the last 10 years, she focused her research on the bio-functionalization of multilayered polyelectrolyte architectures with emphasis on the use of these architectures to induce specific cellular responses and gain control over cell proliferation and differentiation. Dr. Benkirane-Jessel have 138 publications (h index: 36) with peer-reviewed publications in high impact factor journals (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA; Adv. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; Small; Nanoletters, Biomaterials, ACS Nano), 5 chapters reviews and 5 international patents, she is a regular referee for a number of scientific journals (Nature nanotechnology, Nature Materials, ACS nano, Biomaterials, Nanoletters…). She is under the contract (Interface INSERM/Clinic 2008-2013) and she got also “Prime d’Excellence Scientifique†from the INSERM, 2010-2014 and the PEDR from the INSERM on 2016 for 4 years. Role
Research Interest
Dr. Benkirane-Jessel have 138 publications (h index: 36) with peer-reviewed publications in high impact factor journals (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA; Adv. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; Small; Nanoletters, Biomaterials, ACS Nano), 5 chapters reviews and 5 international patents, she is a regular referee for a number of scientific journals (Nature nanotechnology, Nature Materials, ACS nano, Biomaterials, Nanoletters…). Nature nanotechnology Temporomandibular Joint Regenerative Medicine • Material Science • Nanomedicine • Regenerative Medicine • Tissue Engineering Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine • Material Science • Nanomedicine • Regenerative Medicine • Tissue Engineering Nature nanotechnology
Biography
Currently working as a Professor and Head Electronics Engineering at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. Worked as a research associate in IIT Bombay in the department of Systems and Control Engineering. Completed PhD from IIT Bombay, India.
Research Interest
Fault tolerant control, Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Model Based fault Detection and Identification, System Identification for complex nonlinear systems.