21^st Asia Pacific Global Summit on Vaccines & Vaccination October 20-21, 2017 Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Rakesh Kumar gained his M.Sc. and M.Phil (Microbiology) from H.P. University, Shimla (India), later being awarded his Ph.D. in Biotechnology by University of Pune. In January 1982, he joined Central research Institute, Kasauli (H.P.) under Government of India, Ministry of health and Family welfare and worked till July 1994. Central Research Institute is a pioneer Institute for immuo-biological products, established in 1905. Central Drug Laboratory for biological products is also a part of the Institute, which is a National Control Laboratory and is also WHO recognized. He joined Serum Institute of India Limited in 1994 as manager and devoted his full time to the increasing success of Serum Institute culminating in his appointments in 1997 as Dy. Director (Production), Additional Director (Production) in 2003 and as Director in 2005. He has had full time, hands of experience in Scientific and Compliance Professional in various aspects of Bio-pharmaceutical industry , excellent knowledge & understanding of Research, Development and Production of Biologicals, International regulatory requirements, mentoring and coaching skills, exhaustive work for process–development, optimization, set-up, subsequent production and formulation of various mono-valent and combination vaccines.

Production and formulation of various mono-valent and combination vaccines.

Chit Laa Poh completed her PhD at Monash University(Australia) in 1980 and conducted short periods of postdoctoral training from the Pasteur Institute, Cambridge University and the University College London. She is a Distinguished Professor and Head of the Centre for Biomedical Sciences at Sunway University. She has previously worked in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine , National University of Singapore (NUS) for 25 years. She has published more than 85 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Biosceince and Bioengineering, Austin Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine, Journal of Virology and Emerging Diseases. And Annals of Translational Medicine and Epidemiology.

Viral Vaccines

Dr. Hu received his DVM in 1982 and MS in veterinary medicine in 1985 from Zhejiang Agricultural University in China. In 2002, he received his PhD from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine. He has been a faculty member of Zhejiang University College of Veterinary Medicine since 1985, and currently serves as the head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine. He teaches courses in TCVM, veterinary acupuncture, and veterinary immunology to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His research interests are in the mechanisms of Veterinary Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture. He has published 10 books and over 100 scientific papers, and has also obtained 15 national innovation patents.

veterinary immunology

Dr. De-chu Christopher Tang is the Founder of VaxDome LLC and Vaxin Inc. He obtained his PhD in Microbiology from Indiana University in 1989. He carried out his postdoctoral work at Baylor College of Medicine, Duke University, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He joined the faculty at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1994; subsequently founded Vaxin Inc. on UAB campus in 1997; and was responsible for Vaxin’s daily operation as the Chief Scientific Officer until 2012. Dr. Tang was one of the pioneers during the development of DNA vaccines, noninvasive skin-patch vaccines, adenovirus-vectored nasal vaccines, adenovirus-vectored poultry vaccines, as well as the protective innate-adaptive immunity duo platform technology. He received the Wallace H. Coulter Award for innovation and entrepreneurship in 2000; and Vaxin Inc. was selected as a Tech Museum Awards Laureate in 2007. Dr. Tang was selected as a Distinguished Overseas Scientist by the South Korea KOFST Brain Pool Program in 2012; subsequently joined Chung-Ang University and International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Seoul; and was appointed as a Scientist at IVI after the Brain Pool Program Award expired in 2013. He founded VaxDome LLC in Birmingham, Alabama, USA in 2014.

DNA vaccines, noninvasive skin-patch vaccines, adenovirus-vectored nasal vaccines, adenovirus-vectored poultry vaccines

Guey Chuen Perng, earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of California, Davis, and got his postdoc training in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC), an affiliated teaching hospital to University of California, Los Angeles. Oscar was an assistant professor at the Department of Ophthalmology at UC Irvine and served as Director of Arbovirology division at AFRIMS, an affiliated research institute to US Military in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2007, Oscar was recruited to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as an Associate Professor at Emory University. In 2012, with his outstanding research and insightful knowledge on dengue and global vision on infectious diseases and prevention, Oscar was recruited to the Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research at National Cheng Kung University. Currently, Oscar is a faculty at Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

Vaccines

Refat Sadeq, Prof. and Head of Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Egypt. He has been on microbiology field over 40 years. He has started and graduated in Zagazig Faculty of Medicine for M.Sc. and Ph.D. Then started to research articles reaching more than 80 articles, many of which have been published in international scientific journals, and he has reviewed over 100 edits on different journal sites. He is a Featured Author, for books in Medical Microbiology and Immunology for both medical students and nurses. Work from 2008-2011 as Head of Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine- Zagazig University. Also work as member of Egyptian scientific committee for graduation of Professor and assistant Professor in Microbiology in Egypt and some Arabic countries. He signed as Board editor of EC Microbiology Journal and Journal of Human Virology and Retrovirology. Since Oct 2014 he pointed as a Head of Microbiology and Immunology department, Faculty of Medicine, Port said University.

Vaccines, Microbiology, Virology