Medical Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Dr. Ghantous joined the US Food and Drug Administration as a pharmacology/toxicology reviewer in 2001, and since 2007 she has been the Pharmacology/Toxicology supervisor at the Division of Antiviral Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Dr. Ghantous has presented at national and international scientific and regulatory meetings, has served on several US FDA committees, has been involved in writing Guidance documents and has represented the Agency at various public forums. Before coming to FDA, Dr. Ghantous worked for approximately 10 years at the DuPont Company. She has been a member of the Society of Toxicology since 1989 and the American College of Toxicology since 2000. She served on the Continuing Education Committee of the Society of Toxicology (2010–2013). Dr. Ghantous is one of the founders of the Biotechnology Specialty Section and served as a VP- elect, VP, President and past president of the specialty section (2010-2013). She also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Toxicology (2010–2014) and was the president of the board for 2013-2014. She also served on council of the American College of Toxicology (2011-2013) and is the president of the American College of Toxicology (2015-2016). Dr. Ghantous received a B.Sc. in Pharmacy from the University of Baghdad, Iraq, an M.Sc. in Pharmacology from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and a PhD in Toxicology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona, and received her board certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT) in 1995. Dr. Ghantous has over 20 years of combined experience in general and regulatory toxicology and has published pier reviewed scientific papers and book chapters.

Hanan Ghantous’s fields of research interest include Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Prof. Tsatsakis is currently the President of the Federation of European Toxicologists and European Societies of Toxicology (EUROTOX) and President of the Hellenic Society of Toxicology. He is the Chairman of the Hellenic ERT - HST national Registry and member of several Scientific Academies and Societies. He has cooperated with key national and international organizations such as WHO-IPCS, National Drug Authority, has received the Inter Res Prom Council, IRPC 2001, eminent scientist gold award. He is Emeritus Professor for the Erisman Russian Federal Institute of Hygiene and Toxicology in Moscow (2014) and Honorary Doctor of the Mendeleev Moscow University in Russia (2016). He has organized as president several international Congresses in the field of toxicology and forensic science among them the EUROTOX2008 in Rhodes Greece. He is also the president of the international BIONANOTOX conferences during 2009 to 2016. He is the inspirator and founder and current president of the high- tech knowledge and research university spin-off Company ToxPlus S.A. Professor Aristidis Michael Tsatsakis is the Director of the Department of Toxicology and |Forensic Sciences of the Medical School at the University of Crete and the University Hospital of Heraklion. He is teaching the toxicology course for medical students for 30 years and specialization toxicology topics for postgraduate programs in few universities and supervised numerous PhDs. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Mendeleev University in Moscow 1986 and defended the title of Doctor of Science in Biology in University of Friendship of Nations in Moscow 2004. Prof Tsatsakis has written over 360 peer reviewed publications in prestigious journals, is holder of several patents and has given numerous lecturers as keynote and plenary speaker in international congresses.

The main research interests of Dr Tsatsakis are biomonitoring of various xenobiotics in a variety of biological samples and linking of chemical chronic exposure at low doses with health problems and diseases, and risk assessments.

Professor Wojciech Wasowicz (PhD), full professor at Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine. Head of the Biological and Environmental Monitoring Department, he has a background in biochemistry, analytical chemistry and toxicology. Wide experience with toxicology of metals and its interactions with microelements, oxidative stress markers, and antioxidant enzymes. The next field of interest is potential protective role of some antioxidants against chemicals. Experience in engineered nanomaterials, nanoparticles and health effect of nanoparticles. Reviewer in a few Polish periodicals related to toxicology and biochemistry and scientific grants reviewer in Polish Scientific Research Committee. Prof. W. Wasowicz shows great scientific activity confirmed by numerous publications, grants awarded by realization of scientific plan, and active participation in symposia, conferences and scientific meetings organized in Poland (Polish Society of Toxicology) and abroad (EUROTOX, IUTOX), and has given numerous lecturers as keynote and plenary speaker in international congresses. He attended (as a supervisor or member of scientific team) international projects financially supported by United Europe (Phare, Inco-Copernicus, 5th Frame Programme 6th Frame Programme, Horizon 2020 ). He is a member of Polish MAK Value Expert Commission, and a member of OECD expert in Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials. a coordinator of Polish Center of Trace Element Institute for UNESCO, and since 2008 he is a President of Polish Society of Toxicology. Prof. Wasowicz’s work has hitherto resulted in 170 scientific papers published mainly in journals of international recognition (2000 citation).

The main focus of his research lies in the field on trace elements (mainly Se, Zn, Cu) metabolism and trace elements dependent enzymes activities in physiology and some pathological conditions in animals and humans.

Songsak Srianujata is currently Senior Advisor at the Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University,Thailand, where he was the former Director from 1999 to 2003. He is also President of the Thai Society of Toxicology, Thailand; Honorary President of the Council of Science and Technology Associations of Thailand; President of the Asian Society of Toxicology; and Former Vice President of the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations. Dr. Srianujata is actively involved in numerous governmental committees – he is a member of the Strategic Committee on Food Quality and Safety under the National Food Committee, and Chairman of its Sub-Committee on Risk Assessment; a member of Agricultural Commodity Standard Committee; a member of Sub-Committee on Risk Assessment of Hazardous Substance of Hazardous Substance Control Committee; Chairman of Sub-Committee on Biosafety in Food (Risk Assessment of Food Derived from Bioengineering Organisms -GMOs). He was also a previous member of the Food Committee of Thai Food and Drug Administration for many terms and presently the chairman of the sub-committee on technical assessment on food and food product of Thai FDA. He is the founder and advisor of the Thailand Risk Assessment Center (TRAC) for food safety. Dr. Srianujata has experience in teaching, research and managing research programs in food and nutrition, especially in the area of food safety. He was previously Head of the Center for System Research in Food Safety and Nutrition, Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand from 2006 to 2010. He was an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital at Mahidol University, Thailand from 1984 to 2003, where he was the Head of the Food and Chemical Toxicology Unit, Research Center. Dr. Srianujata was a Senator in the Senate of the Kingdom of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. Dr. Srianujata holds a BSc in Pharmacy (Hons) from the University of Medical Science (presently Mahidol University), Thailand, as well as a MS and a Ph.D from the University of Kansas, USA. He has also obtained additional training and certification in Risk Assessment from RASS, the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX). He author more than 70 publications both in English and Thai.

The main research interests of Songsak Srianujata are Toxicology, Nutrition and Risk Assessment.

Dagmar Jírová, M.D., Ph.D., graduated and received her Ph.D. at the Charles University in Prague. Her professional specialisation is dermatotoxicology and immunotoxicology, focused on safety assessment of cosmetics and other consumer products. She is holding the position of the Head of the Centre of Toxiology and Health Safety at the National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic. She is the author of more that 200 publications in scientific journals, proceedings and monographs, posters or articles and publications for the public. She was the principal investigator in number of research projects in the field of alternative toxicological methods for evaluation of health risks of chemicals and consumer products.

Dagmar Jírová’s fields of research interest include dermatotoxicology and immunotoxicology.

Swamy K B has been awarded PhD by Andhra University, India. He has taken his Master’s Degree i.e., MS (in Clinical Anatomy) from Andhra Medical College, India. He took his Medical Degree (MBBS) in 1976. He is specialized in Human Genetics and Herbal Medicine. He has conducted many researches on Herbal Medicine and Diabetes and “Brain size and Intelligence Quotient (IQ)” on which he has conducted researches and has published more than 25 research papers in high impact factor indexed international journals. He is a founder Anatomist for many Medical Universities in Malaysia. He is the former Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy for many Medical Schools in India and Malaysia. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member for many reputed journals.

Clinical Toxicology, Herbal Medicine, Diabetes, Human Genetics

Dr Khaled Abbas Helmy Abdou has completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Toxicology from faculty of veterinary medicine, Cairo university, Egypt. He is a Professor of Toxicology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni Suef University, Egypt. He is currently the Chairman of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Dept., Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Beni Suef University, Egypt. He is the General Secretary for The Egyptian Society of Environmental Toxicology.

Khaled Abbas Helmy Abdou’s fields of research interest include Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Molecular Biology.

Dr. Bhandari holds PhD degree from Syracuse University in Sociology, M.A.’s in Sociology (Syracuse University) and Sustainable International Development (Brandeis University), and a M.Sc. in Environmental System Monitoring and Analysis (ITC-The University of Twente, The Netherlands). Dr. Bhandari is experienced in the conservation of biodiversity (including wildlife biology), nature and natural resources, global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and governance, and forest governance from the grassroots to the national level with a special focus on participatory management, climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, land cover and land use change, and environmental health hazards. His major specialties include: Biodiversity, Environmental Health Hazards, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, International environmental governance, Green Economics, Sustainability, and assessing economic, social and environmental impacts on natural resources. His field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the U.S., Western Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. Dr. Bhandari also serves as faculty and Deputy Program Director of the Sustainability Studies Department at Akamai University, where he teaches International Relations, and International Environmental Policies and Sustainability. His additional teaching and research focus areas include sociology; environmental, political and organizational sociology; social change; social networks; global environment policy and sustainable development; environmental sociology and natural resource sociology. Dr. Bhandari is also open to contribute to core curriculum including introductory courses, environmental studies, social theory, social statistics, or social research methods, and organizational and political sociology. Dr. Bhandari has published more than 50 papers in the various national and international journals.

Dr. Bhandari’s fields of research interest include Ecology, Environmental Education, Natural resource management

Dr Sahar Issa has completed her Doctorate degree in Clinical Toxicology & Forensic Medicine in 2008, from Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt and is a Lecturer of Clinical Toxicology & Forensic Medicine in the same University. She is currently the director of Medical section, Supervising Emergency toxicology, Molecular Toxicology, & Therapeutic Drug Monitoring units in Dammam Poison Control Center, MOH - Saudi Arabia. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Sahar Issa’s fields of research interest include Clinical Toxicology, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.