Plenary & Keynote Speakers
11th International Conference on Nanomedicine, Drug Delivery, and Tissue Engineering (NDDTE 2026)
We are pleased to announce our plenary and Keynote Speakers for NDDTE 2026 :
Dr. Vladimir CHIGRINOV
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 335 journal papers, more than 757 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 https://ece.hkust.edu.hk/news/prof-vladimir-chigrinov-wins-2018-slottow-owaki-prize Since 2018 until 2020 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Abstract Title:
Photoaligned Azodye Nanolayers : Basic Technology for New Liquid Crystal Devices in Various Applications
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Dr. Quanyin Hu
University of Wisconsin-Madison , USA
Prof. Hu received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University under the supervision of Prof. Zhen Gu in 2018. From 2018-2020, he was a postdoc associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer in Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Prof. Hu joined UW-Madison in 2020 as an assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division at the School of Pharmacy.
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Dr. Volkmar Weissig
Midwestern University Glendale, USA
Volkmar Weissig, Sc.D., Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.habil.) is a Tenured Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and he holds a second non-tenured appointment as Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Midwestern University Glendale, Arizona. He also has an appointment as Adjunct Faculty in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dr. Weissig received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry and his postdoctoral Sc.D. degree (habilitation) in Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology from the Martin-Luther University in Halle (Germany). Combined he completed several years of postdoctoral fellowships at the Cardiology Research Center in Moscow (Russia), at the Academic Department of Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London (UK), at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Czechoslovakian Academy of Science in Prague (CSFR), at the College of Pharmacy and the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Before joining the faculty at Midwestern University, Dr. Weissig was an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Dr. Weissig holds 16 patents, and he has published over 130 research papers, review articles and book chapters, mostly in the areas of nano drug delivery systems and mitochondrial medicine. He also edited and published 11 books. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Liposome Research, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mitochondria, Plastids and Endosymbiosis, he is also member of several other Editorial Boards among them for 4Open. In July 2009 he was inducted into the World Technology Network as a Fellow. In October 2014 Dr. Weissig was elected President of the World Mitochondria Society. In April 2023 he was elected as Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts (Salzburg, Austria).
Abstract Title:
Evolution of Mitochondria-Targeted Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery
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