Biography
Dr.Abed N. Azab has received his PhD in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev during the period of 1999. Currently, he is working as a professor in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has authored 32 research articles. He is a member of Israeli Society for Biological Psychiatry. He has awarded as Excellence in Studying Award, Pratt Fellowship for Faculty Candidates, Career Development Chair in Community Health Professions.
Research Interest
Effect of psychotropic drugs on brain inflammation, Role of GSK-3 in the mechanisms underlying mood disorders, Psychiatric and cardiovascular nursing, Adherence to pharmacotherapy.
Biography
Dr. Qingsheng Li is a tenured Professor at the School of Biological Sciences and Nebraska Center for Virology in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Li obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Virology from the Beijing University, China. Dr. Li has more than 20 years of experience in studying HIV-1 pathogenesis, transmission, microbicide, and vaccine development and his technical expertise includes the use of SIV-rhesus macaque model, human specimens, humanized-BLT (bone marrow liver and thymus) mouse model, and single-cell in situ analyses. Dr. Li has published extensively on HIV/SIV transmission, pathogenesis and prevention, including one paper in Science and two papers in Nature as the lead author.
Research Interest
Dr. Li research work is focused on studying HIV-1 pathogenesis, transmission and prevention using single cell in situ analyses and in vivo SIV-rhesus macaque and humanized-BLT (bone marrow liver and thymus) mouse models of HIV-1 infection.
Biography
Dr. Jianxun (Jim) Song is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, United States. The base of expertise on T cell biology needed to perform his research began to develop while he was a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist from the years 2001-2007 under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Croft at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. He became a junior faculty at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 2007, and extended his research on Developmental Immunology and Stem Cell Biology. As a PI on previous university-, foundation-, or NIH-funded grants, he laid the groundwork for the research by developing highly reactive T lymphocytes from pluripotent stem cells (PSC). His laboratory was the first to show that induced PSC differentiate into functional T cells for cell-based therapies. In addition to having the expertise to be successful with the research, he offers leadership and administrative skills that were developed during his independence as a mentor of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. In summary, he has a demonstrated record of successful and productive research projects in the area.
Research Interest
T cells, stem cells, cell differentiation, cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmunity, immunotherapy.