Conférences plénières

Zilin Chen

Le professeur Zilin Chen travaille actuellement comme professeur Luojia à l'école des sciences pharmaceutiques de l'université de Wuhan. Le professeur Chen a obtenu son doctorat en chimie appliquée en 2000 à l'Université métropolitaine de Tokyo (TMU), au Japon. Il a ensuite travaillé comme boursier postdoctoral de la Société japonaise pour la promotion de la science (JSPS) à l'UTM, comme boursier postdoctoral au NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, au Japon, et comme professeur assistant de recherche à l'Université de Notre Dame, aux États-Unis. Il a rejoint l'université de Wuhan en tant que professeur Luojia en 2007. Il a publié plus de 200 articles de recherche dans des revues internationales (indice H 30). Ses recherches portent sur la chromatographie sur micro-colonne, les biocapteurs, l'électrophorèse capillaire et la spectrométrie de masse pour l'analyse biologique et pharmaceutique. Il est rédacteur en chef adjoint du Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis (JPA). Il a fondé et organisé le premier symposium international sur les progrès de l'analyse pharmaceutique (APA) en 2017 à Wuhan, et travaille en tant que coprésident de l'APA 2018 (Lille, France), de l'APA 2019 (Xi'an, Chine) et de l'eAPA-2022 (Nancy, France).

Peter Horvatovich

Péter Horvatovich received his PhD from University of Strasbourg (France) in food analytical chemistry in 2001 developing new analytical approaches for detection of 2-alkylcyclobutanones to identify food preserved by ionization treatment. Following this period, he spend 2 years in pharmaceutical industry at Sanofi-Synthelabo (Budapest, Hungary) performing molecular modeling and cheminformatics and one and half year of postdoc position at the Bundesinstitute für Risikobewertung (Berlin, Germany) with Alexander von Humboldt and Hertie foundation scholarship detecting of use of recombinant somatotropin in lactating cow. In 2005 he joined Analytical Biochemistry group at University of Groningen (The Netherlands), where he is working in the last 16 years and currently chairing Computational Mass Spectrometry position as Full Professor. His research interests focus on computational mass spectrometry, proteogenomics data integration, bioinformatics, mass spectrometry imaging, clinical proteomics and metabolomics and biomarker discovery. He authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He is secretary general of the Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project and participating in Swedish Melanoma Cancer Moonshot program and participate in clinical multi-omics and biomarker studies.

Ole Nørregard Jensen

Maria Minunni

Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry, School of Science Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” (DIPCHIM) University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy. She received his BSc in Biology from the University of Pisa and the PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Florence, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Mascini. She spent a few years abroad, working at Nestlé Research Centre (Lausanne-CH) in the genetic toxicology section, then at Pharmacia Biosensor AB (Uppsala – S), at Biacore™ instrumentation based on Surface Plasmon Resonance; at the Technical University of Munich, (Germany) TUM, Institute of Life Sciences with Prof. B. Hock, working on SPR and recombinant antibodies screening technologies, at University College UCC-Cork (Ireland) Dep. of Chemistry with Prof. G. G. Guilbault on piezoelectric sensing. She spent one year post doc She returned to Florence working the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and then at Department of Chemistry in 1999. Her activity has been mainly focused on the development of bioanalytical assays, mainly focused on sensor and biosensing based approaches. In 2000, she was tenured at Firenze University. In 2011 she bacame Associate Professor and in 2017 Full Professor of Analytical Chemisiry. She supervised more than 20 MSc and 5 PhD theses. Most of her former students are now developing their academic careers in Italy and abroad.Since 2018 she’s been member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Talanta and Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research (SBSR), Associate Editor of Sensors and Actuators Reports, Elsevier. Guest Editor Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC), Springer, Issue New Developments in Biosensors, (with F. Baldini); Since 2017 she is in the International Advisory board of the European Biosensor Symposium (ESB), chairing the 2nd EBS in Florence (2019). Referee and Evaluator for Grant Programs for National and international funding Agency and Organization; She has co-authored over 137 papers and review articles in international journals, and several book chapters. She’s organized several international conferences on sensor and biosensors, She is recepient of national and international funding from EU H2020, World Antidoping Agency, Ministery of Health, among others. She is mainly interested in innovative analytical approaches, affinity biosensors (i.e., Surface Plasmon Resonance and piezoelectric transduction), nanotechnology. Her most recent activity focuses on the development of biomimetic receptors-based assays and colorimetric test.

Serigne Omar Sarr

Pharmacist graduated from the Cheikh Anta DIOP University of Dakar (UCAD) and Dr in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Strasbourg, Mr. Sarr is Full Professor of Universities in service at the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Bromatology of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology of UCAD. Pr Sarr is a specialist in the chemistry of natural substances, the quality of medicines and foods. He develops alternative analytical strategies for the control of health products. Pr Sarr works to promote the Senegalese Pharmacopoeia and actively campaigns for national therapeutic sovereignty giving pride of place to endogenous therapeutic resources. Knight of the National Order of the Lion of Senegal, Pr Sarr is a founding member of the Senegalese Committee for Chemistry, a member of several learned societies including the West African Society of Chemistry, the International Society for the Development of Natural Products and the Society of Expert Chemists from France. Author of several international scientific publications, Pr Sarr has supervised around forty Masters, 2 University Doctorates and 5 in progress, more than a hundred pharmacy theses and develops scientific collaborations with several universities around the world.

Hiroyuki Takei

I have received my bachelor and doctorate degrees from Cornell University, both from the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics. The theme of the thesis was on use of low-temperature vibrational spectroscopy in understanding the photocycle of a photosensitive molecule, bacteriorhodopsin, and molecular device applications in optics, under the supervision of Prof. A. Lewis. After finishing the Ph.D. program in 1992, I joined Advanced Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd., working on projects related to molecular devices and biosensing techniques. During the period from 2004 and 2009, I spent my time at various organizations ranging from a start up company, Lamdagen, in the US, Fujirebio, Inc., diagnostic kit company, Tokyo Medical and Dental University as a tokunin professor, and Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology as a deputy project manager, before joining the faculty of Life Sciences at Toyo University in 2009. My research interest lies with applications of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in medical and environmental science, using three different original techniques for fabricating requisite noble metal nanostructures. We have been exploring various device configurations to facilitate use of the SERS and are promoting the technique to potential users. (https://nano-kraft.com)

Alex Van Belkum

Alex van Belkum, PhD PhD, fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, born 1959, father of three daughters, grandfather to five, has been primarily involved in research on molecular epidemiology, molecular and culture-based diagnostics and antimicrobial resistance testing in the domain of human clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. He is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at BaseClear, a Dutch company specialized in microbial genome sequencing and microbiome studies. He was a scientific director at the Open Innovation and Partnership department of bioMérieux, a privately-owned diagnostics company based in the South of France. He is the author of 600 PubMed-cited papers, with an H index of over a 100. He has worked at the Universities of Leiden and Rotterdam, both in The Netherlands. He moved to industry 12 years ago and was involved in the development of novel diagnostics technologies including culture-based ones and several based on mass spectrometry. He has a prime interest in next generation sequencing and the use of other data-rich technologies in clinical microbiology.

Shao-ping Li

Dr. Shao-ping Li is a Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director at the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Director of Joint Laboratory of Herbal Glycoengineering and Testing Technology, University of Macau, and Editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis and International Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Pharmacology, Chinese Medicine, Chinese Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis (药物分析杂志)，Chinese Journal of Modern Applied Pharmacy (中国现代应用药学) and Editorial Board member of Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica A/B, etc. Dr. Li was selected in the Power List 2020 (Around the World in 60 Scientists) and 2021 (Around the World in 100 Scientists), as an expert in herbal glycoanalysis and the development of quality control methods for Chinese medicines, by Analytical Scientists. He is also an Expert Panel member of USP’s Herbal Medicines Compendium, Panel member of ISO standard for honey, Advisor of American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and member of Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission. As an Editor-/Associate Editor- in-Chief, he has published 6 books in USA or China. He is also the author of over 300 peer refereed journal papers and book chapters, and holder of more than 20 China and US patents. Prof. Li is also an Associate Chairman, the Pharmaceutical Analysis Committee of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, etc.