EDITORIAL SECTIONS

Edwin Ng joined Medidata in 2014 and heads the Life Science industry of Dassault Systemes across the Asia Pacific region. Under his leadership, the company’s regional business recorded significant year-on-year growth and achieved multiple leadership awards. Edwin has spent the last 27 years of his career managing enterprise solutions businesses.

Dr. Marco Pirisinu graduated from the University of Sassari, Italy, with a degree in Biomedical Sciences focusing on the novel design and application of cell penetrating peptide targeting mitochondria. He has more than 10 years of research experience working with academic institutions and biotechnology companies. His primary research interest are nanomedicine, targeted therapy and drug delivery systems. Dr. Pirisinu is first author and corresponding author of peer reviewed articles and Guest Editor forSCI-indexed journals. He is currently Senior Scientist at City University of Hong Kong and Head of Innovative Product Development at Jotbody (HK) Limited.

Dr. Likun Wei obtained his BEng from Tianjin University of Technology, majoring in computer science and MSA from Shanghai Ocean University, majoring in agriculture.He completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at City University of Hong Kong in 2021. His PhD work demonstrated a small shark model for affordable high affinity sdAb production.He has co-authored 12 publications in SCI-indexed journals including Nature Communications, Bioresource Technology, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Iscience, The Journal of Immunology, and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.  Dr. Likun Wei is currently R&D Lead at Jotbody (HK) Limited.

Sneha Rai completed her Ph.D. from Computational and Structural Biology Lab., Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DU). She did masters in Bioinformatics from Banaras Hindu University and holds six years of bioinformatics research experience. Her area of interest includes structural bioinformatics, systems biology, protein/gene network analysis, data mining, computer aided drug designing, computational genomics, NGS data analysis, variant analysis and their clinical interpretation.

Venugopal Bhatia graduated from NSIT in 2019 with a B.E. in Biotechnology. During his undergraduate studies he was involved as an undergraduate researcher at the Computational and Structural Biology Laboratory and worked on two projects which were later published in Nature Scientific Reports and Elsevier Computational Biology and Chemistry. After a brief stint in industry, he's now pursuing his Master's at Yale.

Sonika Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Biophysics), AIIMS works in the broad area of computational molecular biology. Her laboratory uses techniques of drug target selection, drug design & discovery, machine learning, and integrative genomics & proteomics towards Cardiovascular disease drug design and infectious disease therapeutics.

Sue Lee has worked for World Courier for 25 years. During this time she has experienced a variety of customer service and operational functions, including the setting up of numerous, multi-national, clinical sites for the transportation of biological samples. She orchestrated the shipping of thousands of shipments with very specific temperature requirements to a host of challenging locations, and each presenting their own obstacles and dilemmas.

Ashwin Kuchekar is an Associate Professor and the Head of Career Services and Placement at the School of Pharmacy, Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT-WPU in Pune. He completed his M. Pharm.in 2009 and Ph. D. in 2015. In 2012, he received the Senior Research Fellow (SRF) Award from the Council of Scientific Industrial and Research (CSIR).  He is a trained specialist in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB).  He has 7 years of industrial experience in reputed pharmaceutical companies such as Piramal, Lupin, and Abbott Healthcare. He has a unique blend of statistics and formulation development, Quality by Design with exposure to branded and generic product development. He has practical experience in the Design of Experiments and product formulation and process optimisation.