Dr. Sriram Seshadri is a trained endocrinologist with doctorate in Male Reproductive Physiology. His main research interest includes metabolic disorder, liver inflammation, gut microbiota modulation and Cancer therapeutics. He has published more than 80 research papers and 15 book chapters. He is a renowned expert in the field of Bacteriocins and Gut microbiota and he is one of the International Grant Reviewer for Czech Research Foundation, Czech Republic. He is Recipient of many awards and recognitions for his research work in the field of gut microbiota and metabolic disorder.

Dr Alan J. Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Medicine at the University of St Andrews. His research is focused upon how metal ions are handled in the body and the roles they play in regulating medically/physiologically relevant processes. Collectively, it provides detailed and reliable data relating to the transport and speciation of metal ions (particularly Zn2+) in the circulation and new insights into their cellular functions and role in disease states. To date his work has attracted grant funding from UK Research Councils (Biological and Biotechnological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)), British Heart Foundation, Fight for Sight and The Leverhulme Trust. He has published >70 peer-reviewed publications, many in world class and field-leading journals. He is currently a member of the BBSRC Pool of Experts and sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals, Scientific Reports and BioMetals.

Currently, Professor Wickramasinghe is the Professor of Digital Health and the Deputy Director of the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and inaugural Professor – Director Health Informatics Management at Epworth HealthCare. She also holds honorary research professor positions at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Northern Health. After completing 5 degrees at the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a full scholarship to complete PhD studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and later she was sponsored to complete executive education at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in Value based HealthCare. For over 20 years, Professor Wickramasinghe has been actively, researching and teaching within the health informatics/digital health domain in US, Germany and Australia with a particular focus on designing, developing and deploying suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to facilitate the implementation and adoption of technology solutions to effect superior, value?based patient centric care delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations and universities throughout Australasia, US and Europe and is well published with more than 400 referred scholarly articles, more than 15 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia and a well established funded research track record securing over $25M in funding from grants in US, Australia, Germany and China as a chief investigator.

Dr. Chih-Hao Wang received his PhD degree in Taiwan and finished the postdoctoral training at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Dr. Wang is currently an assistant professor in Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences at China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. His research focuses on using pharmacological and genetic approaches to investigate the underlying mechanisms of brown fat activation and/or white fat browning. He will apply those basic scientific findings to regulate whole-body energy metabolism and to translate into new clinical treatments for human obesity, diabetes and metabolic disorders.

Prof. Saeb earned his PhD in Molecular Phylogenetics and Population Genetics from The Ohio State University, USA, in 2006. He has more than 25 years of extensive research and teaching experience in different countries. His research interest is focused on but not limited to applied bioinformatics, molecular genetics, human genetics, complex disease genetics and evolution, diabetes genetics, bacterial pathogenomics and virulence, molecular pathology, metagenomics, microbiome, microbial genetics and host-pathogen interactions, to name a few. He delivered lectures in world-class scientific conferences held in China, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Austria, and Spain (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Welcome Genome Campus). He authored 52 total publications in international peer-review journals, mostly as first-author, and reached 470 citations and counting. An educator and researcher skilled in designing learning programs, conducting research projects, and enriching lives.

Dr Revathi Ponnusamy is an Assistant Professor in Department of Botany, Kongunadu Arts and Science College. Dr Revathi completed her Ph. D in phytochemistry and pharmacognaosy and she has granted a patent for isolation method of flavone from traditional antidiabetic wild leafy vegetable plant Acalypha alnifolia. She has been active teaching, researcher on diabetes, traditional medicine, Nutritional plants.

Dr. Sutapa Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of Zoology at Visva-Bharati (A Central University) in Santiniketan, INDIA. Her research is focused on diabetes, obesity and diabetes prevention. Her laboratory is engaged in exploring the signaling cross-talk involving key insulin target tissues that is deemed crucial in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance. The causes inherent in male reproductive impairment associated with obesity-induced insulin resistance are also being investigated. Her laboratory is interested in amelioration of the pathologic changes in Metabolic Syndrome. Her laboratory is also concerned about the toxicity of certain ubiquitous environmental chemicals viz. plasticizers exposure to which has become unavoidable now-a-days and investigates the adverse metabolic effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Dr. Giribabu Nelli, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. In 2011 December, Dr. Giribabu Nelli completed his Ph.D. in reproductive and developmental biology at the Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Malaya. In the same Department, he was recruited as a Senior Lecturer in 2016. He has now published 71 ISI publications with a high impact factor and two book chapters and two patents (Filed) with achieved 10 grants. His main research interests on diabetes and its complications, obesity, natural products and male and female reproductive physiology.

Dr Jintu Kurian is working as a Research officer in Molecular Bioscience Lab of Anvesana Research Laboratories under S-VYASA University, a Deemed-to-be-University located in Bangalore, Southern part of India. Her area of research is on expediting the application of Yoga and exploring the mechanisms by which yoga works in preventing, managing or reversing Pre-diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. Research work of her also focuses on comparing Yoga as a physical activity with other forms of physical acivities like walking and aerobics.

Aleksandar Jeremic has his expertise in molecular endocrinology, high resolution imaging and passion in improving the health and wellbeing of people suffering from T2DM. in collaboration with Prof. Vesna Zderic lab from GW Biomedical engineering department, his lab is investigating molecular mechanisms by which therapeutic ultrasound stimulates gene-expression and insulin release from pancreatic beta-cells. These sono-genetics studies opened a new perspective for exploring ultrasound as a novel therapeutic approach to ameliorate secretory and genetic defects in diseases such as type-2 diabetes mellitus and cardiopathy

Dr. Pinki Roy is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Silchar. She was awarded her Ph.D. degree in the year of 2014 from the NIT Silchar under MoU scheme between NIT Silchar and IIT Guwahati. She is having 18 years of teaching experience. Dr. Pinki Roy has expertise in machine learning, health informatics, and speech recognition, particularly in high-end computational techniques like deep learning. She has published more than 32 SCI/Scopus indexed Journal papers, 25 international conference papers, and 8 Scopus indexed book chapters and 1 book in Heath Informatics in springer. She has been recently awarded the Best Researcher Award by INSO Awards and ISSN awards in collaboration with World Research council in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine.

Dr. Swati Sharma completed PhD in sociology of health and illness in January 2020 from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Since June 2020, she is working as Assistant Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai campus. Her doctoral research is based on understanding social impact of lifestyle diseases on women. Currently, she is working on the menstrual health behaviours of adolescent girls.

Chronic Disease Care, Healthcare Supply Chain Management, Health Economics, Medical Tourism, Health Technology Assessment, and Digital Health

Dr. Vinaytosh Mishra is Associate Professor for Healthcare Management (Management, Digital Health, and Heath Analytics) at the College of Healthcare Management and Economics, Gulf Medical University, Ajman (UAE). He has more than 14 years of experience in industries like Healthcare, EdTech, Finance, and Information Technology. He was instrumental in making a diabetes specialty clinic into a fifty bed multi-specialty clinic in his tenure at Aaroha Healthcare (P) Ltd. In his last Assignment as Associate Professor at FORE School of Management, New Delhi he was program director for two successful long duration programs namely “Building Intelligent Healthcare Analytics” and “PGPM in Healthcare Management and Analytics”. He is also a certified Diabetes Educator and Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma. He has also successfully filled a patent for a device for early detection of diabetes using nailfold capillaroscopy. Dr. Vinaytosh Mishra has published in journals of international repute (ABDC/Scopus/SSCI), and serving as reviewer for various international journals.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Baharudin Ibrahim obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy in 2005 and Master of Pharmacy (Clinical Pharmacy) in 2007 from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). His PhD work was on metabolomics and respiratory medicine from University of Manchester in 2011. He has presented many of his works in international conferences and published his research in more than 70 reputable journals. He has also won several awards nationally and internationally such as travel awards, publications awards, excellent researcher awards and excellent service awards from various organisations. He also has numerous research grant projects and has supervised over 30 master and PhD students. Dr. Ibrahim is currently the Deputy Dean of Student Affairs in Universiti Malaya. Previously, he was the head of clinical pharmacy in Universiti Sains Malaysia. His researches focus on precision medicine and omics to identify biomarkers of diseases and metabolites/genes to predict drug efficacy and adverse drug reactions. He also has expertise in biostatistics, chemometrics and statistical modelling.

Dr. Ganeshsree Selvachandran is a Professor in the Faculty of Business and Management at UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a prolific researcher in the areas of fuzzy mathematics, artificial intelligence and machine learning and have thus far authored close to 80 research articles and conference papers in these areas. In 2019, she was ranked no. 6 in the World Top Authors in the areas of fuzzy sets, fuzzy systems and complex fuzzy by Scopus, Elsevier. To date, she has successfully obtained seven research grants totaling more than MYR880,000 – four Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, 1 industry grant from MTSFB, 1 professorial chair grant from PNB and one Pioneer Scientist Incentive Fund (PSIF) from UCSI University, Malaysia. She has also received 64 internal, national and international awards in recognition of her excellence in research and academics. She currently serves as the editor of three international journals and is an active reviewer for more than 30 international journals listed in the Web of Science and Scopus. She has also served as a member of the scientific review committee for several local and international conferences.

Dr. Sonia Spinelli graduated in Molecular and Health Biology and obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Genoa (Italy). Her main areas of study are Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. She is acquiring professional skills on the role of abscisic acid in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and in the physiology of the regulation of glycemic homeostasis. She investigated the structural and functional properties of the human abscisic acid receptors LANCL1 and LANCL2 and the metabolic and biochemical phenotype of a line of LANCL2 knock-out mice. Her research is currently focused on the role of the ABA/LANCL system in adipocytes browning and in cardiomyocyte response to hypoxia.

Laura Sturla is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at University of Genova (Italy). She obtained her Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biotechnologies applied to medicine in 1998. She carried out six months in the Department of Molecular Biology at Boston University, and she worked as postdoctoral researcher and as Assistant Professor at University of Genova. Her scientific interests are primarily related to molecular mechanisms of signal transduction regarding the biochemistry of hormone abscisic acid (ABA) and its role in glycemic control and as nutraceutical supplement for treatment of prediabetic and diabetic subjects; she has significantly contributed to the identification of human receptors of ABA, the LANCL1 and LANCL2 proteins.

Dr. Rashmi Tupe is an Associate professor at Symbiosis International Deemed University, India and head of ‘Glycation modifications in Diabetes’ research group. She has been working exclusively on diabetes and its complications for the last 15 years. Dr. Tupe’s research targets various biochemical, cellular and molecular modifications in diabetic nephropathy and cardiomyopathy. The in-vitro protein glycation, cell lines, and diabetic rodents are being used as the model system.

Jeena Gupta received receives her PhD from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India and Post doctorate experience from Laval University, Canada. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Lovely Professional University, India. Her research focus on epigenetic regulatory mechanisms including histone post-translational modification in regulating gene expression in diabetes and its associated complications, phytomedicine and disease stratification, nanomedicine for diabetes and breast cancer.