Ananda M. Chakrabarty is a distinguished university professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. His illustrious career spans several decades, during which he has worked in various capacities with the United Nations, NATO, the U.S. government, the Government of India, and the Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts, among others. Dr. Chakrabarty has received many awards, including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), MERIT Award from NIH, U.S. Army Distinguished Service Award, Pasteur Award, Inventor of the Year Award, American Chemical Society Public Affairs Award, and Padma Shri from the Government of India. His current research involves development of anticancer and antiretroviral agents from microbial sources.
Arsénio M. Fialho is associate professor in the Bioengineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico and principal investigator in the Biological Science Research Group, Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include molecular and cellular biology and study of bacterial proteins/peptides as novel drug candidates for cancer therapy. He aims to elucidate the cellular and molecular effects of treating cancer cell models with the protein azurin and its fragment, known as p28, which is a cell-penetrating peptide of 28 amino acids. Prof. Fialho is also interested in the development of nanocarriers for anticancer drugs and study of trimeric autotransporter adhesins as novel and key virulence determinants
in members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex. He serves as an expert for several national and international funding agencies and organizations. He has authored 75 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 2 books, and 13 book chapters and holds 8 US patents.
