Speakers
Special Guests
Isidro Laso Ballesteros
Cabinet Expert Commissioner Gabriel for Innovation, research, Education, culture and Youth
European Commission
Speakers, 24 September
Radka Argirova, Prof. Dr.
Virologist, Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital
Chairperson of the Bulgarian Association for Medical Virology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Borislav Borissov, MBA, DSCI
Ideologist and Managing Director at Biotech Atelier
Managing Director of Prescriptia Ltd., Chairman of the Management Board of Bulgarian Association of Clinical Research
Michael Byczkowski
Vice president and Global Lead of the Industry Business Unit Healthcare Providers
SAP SE
Dr. Nadia Cheaib
Global Health Social & Philanthropist Entrepreneur / Chairwoman, President and CEO of Clingroup / President Hope MCF / President Health Commission, French Chamber Egypt / Ambassador at Egypt International Health Congress
Jonathan Clark
Independent advisor on strategy and innovation
Founder at Jonathan Clark & Partners B.V.
Vladimir Danailov
Executive Director, Member of the Management Board
Fund of Funds in Bulgaria (FMFIB)
Deyan Denev
Director
Association of Research-based Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Bulgaria (ARPHARM Bulgaria)
Prof. Dr. Asen Dudov
President of the Bulgarian Cancer Scientific Society (BCSS)
Medical Director and Head of Medical Oncology Department, Acibadem City Clinic Mladost
Bogi Eliasen
Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
Chair of the Danish UNESCO Bioethical Committee
Iris Faull Fleischer, MD, MHA
Senior Director Medical Affairs & Business Development Europe
Guardant Health, Inc.
Stanimir Hasardzhiev, Dr.
Secretary General - Patient Access Partnership (PACT) / Secretary General - CEE4HEALTH / Genereal Director - National Patient Organisation (NPO) / Chairperson - Bulgarian Association for Personalized Medicine (BAPEMED)
Ute Hegener, Dipl. Biologist
Director, Quality Management & Compliance, Head of Regulatory Affairs Team
PharmaLex
Prof. Radka Kaneva, PhD
Executive Manager of Molecular Medicine Center at Medical University of Sofia
Member of BAPEMED Executive Board
Peter Kapitein, Dr. H. C.
International networker in cancer research
Patient Advocate at Inspire2Live
Alexander Lezhava, PhD
Associate Director, Office of Strategic Alliances & Knowledge Management, Genome Institute of Singapore
Senior Group Leader, Translational Research Group, Genome Institute of Singapore
Colin McGuckin, Prof. Dr.
Founding Director, Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer
CTI-Biotech Cell Therapy Research Institute, Lyon, France
Prof. Daniel Mueller, MD, PhD
Head, Pharmacogenetics Research Clinic and Staff Psychiatrist, Genaral Adult Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto
Professor at Department of Psychiatry and Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology , University of Toronto
Аli Pirzada, MD
Head of Forensic and Integrity Services in Bulgaria, N. Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo
EY
Osman Ugur Sezerman
Head of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department
Acibadem Mehme Ali Aydinlar Universitesi
Jae-Gook Shin, MD, PhD
Chair / Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology
Inje University College of Medicine and Inje University Busan Paik Hospital
Prof. Dr. Dobrin Svinarov, MD. PhD, Dr. Med Sc
Head of Clinical Laboratory and Clinical Pharmacology at Alexandrovska University Hospital / Chairman of the Department of Clinical Laboratory and at the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Sofia / President of the Bulgarian Society of Clinical laboratory
Arunas Zebrauskas
Head of Project Management department
State Research Institute for Innovative Medicine, Lithuania
Speakers, 25 September
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Borislav Borissov, MBA, DSCI
Ideologist and Managing Director at Biotech Atelier
Managing Director of Prescriptia Ltd., Chairman of the Management Board of Bulgarian Association of Clinical Research
Prof. Dr. Andrea Bräutigam, PhD (MSU)
Professor for Computational Biology
Bielefeld University, Germany
Jonathan Clark
Independent advisor on strategy and innovation
Founder at Jonathan Clark & Partners B.V.
Sarah Cooper
Business Development Manager (Commercial)
National Institute for Health Research – Clinical Research Network
Ann Daly
Professor of Pharmacogenetics at the Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Bogi Eliasen
Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
Chair of the Danish UNESCO Bioethical Committee
Prof. Dr. Alisdair Fernie
Group Leader Central Metabolism
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Asoc. Prof. Dr. Tsanko Gechev
Director
Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Prof. Dr. Astrid Junker
Group Leader 'Acclimation Dynamics and Phenotyping'
Local Coordinator of the German Plant Phenotyping Network
Prof. Radka Kaneva, PhD
Executive Manager of Molecular Medicine Center at Medical University of Sofia
Member of BAPEMED Executive Board
Prof. Graham Kemp
Professor in the Data Science and AI Division
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Norbert Kreuzinger
Assistant Professor
TU Vienna-Austria, Institute for Water Quality and Resources Management
Gergana Kyosovska-Peshtenska
Project Manager “Personalized Medicine”, Institute for Medical Research (IMR)
Expert “Patient Support Programmes” and Patient Advocate, BAPEMED
Assoc. Prof. Zdravka Medarova, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Co-founder of TransCode Therapeutics, Inc.
Acad. Prof. Dr. Constantin Mircioiu
Vice-President of National Commission of Bioethics of Drugs and Medical Devices
President of Pharmaceutical Dept. Academy of Medical Sciences, Romania
Dr Cristina Florescu Moraid, MSc, EuSpLM, MRQA
CEO & Co-founder
AVANTYO Institute of Clinical Research
Prof. Dr. Zoran Nikoloski
Professor of Bioinformatics
Potsdam-Golm at Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
Michael Oellerich
Research Professor
George-August University, University Medical Center Goettingen (UMG)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Veselin Petrov
Chief assistant professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetic
Agricultural University, Plovdiv
Prof David Rowbotham
Emeritus Professor of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, University of Leicester
Clinical Director, NIHR Clinical Research Network East Midlands
Victoria Sarafian, Prof. Dr. MD, PhD, DMSc
Professor of Immunology
Department of Medical Biology, Medical University - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr Catalina Sarbu
Director Clinical Operations, Parexel International Romania
Head of the CRO Association in Romania (ACCSCR)
Prof. Ivan Staikov
Head of the Clinic of Neurology and Sleep Medicine
Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital
Prof. Dr. Dobrin Svinarov, MD. PhD, Dr. Med Sc
Head of Clinical Laboratory and Clinical Pharmacology at Alexandrovska University Hospital / Chairman of the Department of Clinical Laboratory and at the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Sofia / President of the Bulgarian Society of Clinical laboratory
Ivan Ivanov
Clinical Professor at the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences