Dr. Ioannidis studied medicine in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated at 2005. He received his MSC in “Medical Research Methodology” in 2008 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in “Surgery of Liver, Biliary Tree and Pancreas” from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2016. He received his PhD degree in 2014 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for his thesis “The effect of combined administration of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in ulcerative colitis. Experimental study in rats.” He is a General Surgeon with special interest in laparoscopic surgery and surgical oncology and also in surgical infections, acute care surgery, nutrition and ERAS. He has received fellowships for EAES, ESSO, EPC, ESCP and ACS and has published more than 130 articles with more than 3000 citations and an H-index of 42

Peng Zhan is currently a full professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Shandong University. His research interests involve the discovery of novel antiviral (HIV, HBV, influenza, coronavirus, etc.) agents based on rational drug design and combinatorial chemistry approaches. He has led over ten research projects, including key research and development plan from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and four National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects, and major scientific and technological innovation projects of Shandong Province. To date, he has published over 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Chemical Society Reviews, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Medical Virology, E Life, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, and Acta Pharm Sin B, with H-index of 49. He also co-edited six monographs and granted 50 patents (30 of them licensed). He currently serves as advisory editorial board member of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and several other renowned journals

Dr. Torchilin is a University Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston. He obtained a M.S. in Chemistry as well as a Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds from Moscow University. In 1991, Dr. Torchilin joined MGH/Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 Dr. Torchilin has been with Northeastern University, including as the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences from 1998-2008. His research interests include liposomes, lipid-core micelles, biomedical polymers, drug delivery and targeting, pharmaceutical nanocarriers, experimental cancer immunology. He has published more than 400 original papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, and holds more than 40 patents. He has also wrote and edited 10 books, including Immobilized Enzymes in Medicine, The Handbook on Targeted Delivery of Imaging Agents, Liposomes: A Practical Approach, Nano particulates as Pharmaceutical Carriers, Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers, Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting, Delivery of Protein and Peptide Drugs in Cancer.

Jacques DESBRIERES is Professor at University of Pau and Pays Adour in France. Engineer for National School of Chemistry in Paris (in 1978) and Doctor-Engineer at Grenoble University (in 1980) he worked during 10 years in Dowell Schlumberger, a service company for oil-well treatments. Then he joined Grenoble University in 1980 as an Associate Professor and then University of Pau and Pays Adour in 2004 as Professor. In 2009 He received the Doctor Honoris Causa Diploma of Technical Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (Romania) for his contribution to natural polymers science.