Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Dr. Qingyu Zeng has 25 years of extensive working experience. Throughout his career, Qingyu has served in various roles such as fellow, technical director, and advanced technology platform leader with various responsibilities to strategically lead many multi discipline team efforts to identify, evaluate, and develop cutting-edge products and core technologies for successful commercial platform deployment. He holds more than 10 granted patents. Qingyu graduated with BS and MS from Donghua University in China, received his Ph.D. in Polymer Science from North Carolina State University, and completed his EMBA from Ohio State University.

Marina Slavsky has completed her M.S. from Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies, Russia. She is the senior scientist in AstraZeneca DMPK group. Marina has extensive experience in high throughput assay development, automation, validation, and implementation for drug discovery and development.

Iris Valtingojer is a group leader in the Molecular Oncology Research Department from Sanofi, France. Her professional experience lies in the leadership of small molecule drug discovery projects in a precision medicine context. Over the past 10 years she has taken multiple projects from target identification up to development candidate selection. Iris’ research team focuses on new and innovative pathways for cancer therapy and the identification of targets and drugs in this context. She joined Sanofi as a Post-Doc in Biochemistry and holds a Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute in Cologne, Germany, as well as a Master degree in Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Swietnicki is a scientist working on antibacterial strategies. The work is focused on novel vaccines and therapeutics targeting bacterial virulence systems. Dr. Swietnicki obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 1995 for his work on Hepatitis A Virus 3C protease. Later he worked on human prion proteins at CWRU, Cleveland, OH, USA before starting work on Select Agents at USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, MD, USA, and ECBC, APG, MD, USA. In 2011 he moved to Poland to work on virulence blockers of enteropathogenic E. coli at EIT+ and later on novel vaccines against periodontitis at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of PAS in Wroclaw, PL.

Dr. Souvik Basak, age 39 years, has completed his B.Pharm. and M.Pharm from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2004 and 2006 respectively) and accomplished his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore at 2013. He has been working as Associate Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Dr. B.C. Roy College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences, Durgapur, WB, India since 2018. He has published more than 30 papers in various international journals of repute, several book chapters and more than 50 conference proceedings/presentations. He has published one Indian patent and associated as research consultant with various international research farms and Professors. He is currently also a member of fellow of Institute of Chemist, India

Marina Slavsky has completed her M.S. from Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies, Russia. She is the senior scientist in AstraZeneca DMPK group. Marina has extensive experience in high throughput assay development, automation, validation, and implementation for drug discovery and development.