Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research

Frank Yurasek, acupuncture and oriental medicine clinician, studied pre-med and literature at the University of Notre Dame. He received a teaching fellowship at Notre Dame for his master's degree in literature, teaching Rhetoric and Composition, American Drama, and Honors English. From Notre Dame, he pursued a career in Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, specializing in High Technology Accounts. He was the first non-Japanese agency to handle the NEC Broadcast and Consumer Electronics accounts, and later was director of marketing for Satellite Broadcast Network, and director of corporate communications for Advanced Systems Inc. In 1984, his wife experienced a remarkable recovery from Trigeminal Neuralgia thanks to acupuncture. Dr. Yurasek began his study and internship with Dr. Yin Lun Han, a Chinese doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Shen Yang, China, with over 40 years experience. While studying with Shen Yang, Dr. Yurasek spent some of his time training the "barefoot doctors" there. Later, Dr. Yurasek received his masters of science in Oriental Medicine from the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, where he taught for 16 years and was appointed as Professor of Tui Na in 1992.

Acupuncture and oriental medicine clinician

PhD, MS, BPharm, was Associate Professor at the Chicago State University College of Pharmacy.He is the co-author of one textbook and is an editorial board member of the 'Antioxidants' and SM Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Journal.

'Antioxidants'

Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1991 where was appointed Lecturer in Parasitology. Following my MSc and PhD at the University of Salford, Manchester.

Chair in Biomolecular Sciences

Dr. McChesney has more than 55 years of research and development experience in natural products. He is Founder and Principal and serves as Chairman of Cloaked Therapeutics, LLC which was founded to clinically develop the TumorSelect technology discovered and patented by Arbor Therapeutics, LLC, a research and discovery company established by him to research and discover a means to significantly improve clinical therapy of cancer.

His research interests include the chemistry, metabolism, function and production of biologically active organic natural products, bioanalytical chemistry of natural products and drugs, chemotherapy of tropical diseases, and the control of plant growth and development. Most recently he has focused on development of biologically active natural products as pharmaceuticals, especially as anti-infectives and cancer chemotherapeutics.

After a Doctorate in Pharmacy at the University of Lille, Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki has completed her PhD degree in chemistry of marine natural products from the University of Paris XI-Orsay. She is currently Director of Research CNRS at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where she spent most of her career, focusing her research activity on the isolation, structure elucidation and structure-activity relationships of bioactive natural products from marine sponges.

She now leads a research team « Molecules of defense and communication within the microbial ecosystems » involved in multidisciplinary studies combining microscopic, cultural, molecular biology and chemical approaches in order to understand the role of the associated bacteria within these complex marine holobionts.

Loai Aljerf is a Prof in the Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine/Damascus University. He is a specialist in analytical and industrial chemistry. He obtained many awards and published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers (two of them in French) in Environmental Sciences, Green Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Synthesis Chemistry, Concrete, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Petrochemical, Extraction, Separation, Lithium-Ion-Batteries, and Oral Chemistry. He is a partner in Advances in Cleaner Production Network, and a member of the German Chemical Society e.V. (GDCh), Asian Chemical Society, and the American University of Beirut. He is a member of the higher committee of the 6th International Workshop-Advance in Cleaner Production (São Paulo, Brazil (May 24th to 26th - 2017)) and in more than 20 conference organizing committees. Loai Aljerf is in the Cambridge Scholars Publishing-Life Science Advisory Board and an editor of more than 50 journals and a reviewer for Top journals in Industry, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Cement Industry, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Advances in Cleaner Production, Climate Change, Pollution, Wastewater Treatment, Air Pollution, Eco-friendly Biopolymers, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Polychlorinated biphenyls, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Nanotechnology, Adsorption, Ecology and Natural Resources, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Waste Management, Environmental Management, Life Cycle Assessment, Ecodesign, Design for the Environment, Energy Labeling, Eco-efficiency, Chromatography, HPLC, GC, MS, AAS, Spectroscopy, and Lithium-Ion-Batteries.

Sei-Ryang Oh is Director at Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Identification of biologically active compounds from natural resources Evaluation of natural products and/or extracts against chronic inflammatory diseases Metabolomics research of medicinal plants for origin discrimination and standardization

Prof.Dr. Esra KÃœPELÄ° AKKOL was born in Turkey. She got her Bachelor of Science degree in Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Turkey and got her Ph.D. degree in Pharmacognosy Department from the University of Gazi. She is currently Professor in the Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy. She served in many capacities in her field including service on several editorial boards and numerous review committees for journals such as Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Journal of Pharmacy Sciences, The Internet Journal of Herbal and Plant Medicine, International Journal of Genuine Traditional Medicine, Advances in Pharmacological Sciences, Evidence Based Complementary Alternative Medicine and The Open Pain Journal. She has conducted 45 projects and 13 thesis in Gazi University. She has 160 published articles in SCI International Journals, 13 articles in National Journals and 10 chapters in International books.

Her research combines pharmacognosy and pharmacological approaches to focus on • Bioassay guided isolation of active constituents - Phytochemistry and Analytical Pharmacognosy • Anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, antirheumatic and antidepressant activities of folk remedies and synthesized compounds • Wound healing assessment of medicinal plants and their secondary metabolites • Isolation of the natural compounds from the medicinal plants used against gynecological disorders • Anti-carcinogenic assessment of medicinal plants and their secondary metabolites.

Dr. Yongbo Xue has completed his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences with Academician Prof. Han-Dong Sun as supervisor. He worked as a visiting scholar and collaborated with Prof. Craig M Williams in the University of Queensland, Australia. Since May 2019, he has been awarded by Top Talents Recruitment of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University. He has authorized more than 120 academic publications in journals like Angew Chem, Chem Sci, Org Lett, J Org Chem, Org Chem Front, and J Nat Prod. He is frequently invited to serve as an ad hoc peer reviewer for many scientific journals and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Natural Products (NPs) Chemistry and NPs-based Drug Discovery

Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and the Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Bhushan came to OSU in 1991 after a 15-year career in industry, working primarily for IBM Almaden Research Center. A professor with diverse interests, Dr. Bhushan’s works in biomimetic interface science, surface engineering, nanotribology, and materials research. His research has focused on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. Dr. Bhushan spent the 2013-2014 year working as an ASME Science Fellow in Congress. His work there focused on policy and funding of various scientific government agencies, setting science and engineering goals for the country, and STEM education. Dr. Bhushan is a prolific author (h-index – 76+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), influencing many different fields. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, nearly 900 scientific papers, and 60+ scientific reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents. He was honored and awarded with 22+ (BITS (Pilani) Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize and honor for bringing laurels to their alma mater(2015) , Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) Global Award for oil-water separation using durable green coatings(2015), Top Ten Science Stories of 2015 - Nanocoated- mesh for Oil-Water Separation (2016) , Ohio State University - Innovators Award for Translation of Research into New products and Technologies (2017).

Research Interest Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.

Dr. Feng is an expert in biochemistry and biophysics of metalloproteins. He has authored > 90 scientific manuscripts. He is an active NIH reviewer, and also serves as referee for NSF, AHA, French National Research Agency, and Italian Ministry of Health.

Feng lab is interested in how metal ions play critical structural and functional roles in biological molecules. His primary research focus is on regulation mechanism of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), a flavo-hemoprotein responsible for biosynthesis of nitric oxide (NO), a ubiquitous signaling and effector molecule in mammalian cell biology. A particular strength is the utilization of multidisciplinary approaches, using techniques ranging from biochemical and kinetics to biophysical, to answer specific mechanistic questions. Recent studies of NOS proteins by Dr. Feng suggest that domain motions and interdomain docking play an important role in NOS isoform function by modulating key electron transfer processes. Molecular mechanisms of NOS regulation, once fully understood, are potentially key targets for development of selective new pharmaceuticals for treating a wide range of diseases that currently lack effective treatments.