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Plenary speakers

6TH CENTRAL EUROPEAN BIOMEDICAL CONGRESS

Plenary speakers

who will be sharing their knowledge and insights on the latest trends in health interventions.

jan-bjaalie

Prof. Jan Bjaalie, PhD

Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Harnessing Big Data in Neuroscience: Strategic Insights into Data Sharing and Machine Learning Applications
https://www.med.uio.no/english/people/adm/fac/management/jang/

Józef Dulak

Prof. Józef Dulak, PhD

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Józef Dulak, PhD, DSc, is the professor and head of the Department of Medical Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is elected member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and  member of Academia Europaea. Currently he is the vice-chairman of the Committee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He worked as post-doctoral fellow at Free University in Amsterdam (1991), University in Muenster  (1994) and Stanford University (1997), and was the research fellow at the University of Innsbruck (1999-2001). He is the doctor honoris causa of the University of Orleans in France (2012), received the “Dr. Luis Federico Leloir” Award from the Argentinian Ministry of Science and Technology (2014), and has been invited to lecture at numerous international conferences and foreign institutions, including the visiting professorship from the Japanese Society  for the Promotion of Science (2010) and at the University of Orleans (2009, 2013).  From  2013 to 2020 he was the coordinator of the International Associated Laboratory (LIA) of the Jagiellonian University and CBM CNRS in Orleans, he was the president of the European Vascular Biology Organization (EVBO) – 2013-2017.

He conducts research on molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and genetic neuromuscular diseases, including the function of stem cells and the possibilities of genetic and cell therapies. He is the co-author of more than 280 papers (h-index is 56), and is  the co-inventor of one patent. Prof. Dulak coordinated numerous grants (more than 13,5 million Euro in the last 10 years), both research and infrastructural.

Web: https://zbm.wbbib.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/

Steve-Williams

Prof. Steve Williams, PhD

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK and Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences based at the South London and Maudsley Hospital, London, UK