Dr. Sourav Bhattacharjee
University College Dublin, Ireland – NDDTE 2027 Plenary SpeakerDr. Sourav Bhattacharjee joined the Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata (India) in 1997 and graduated with MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) in 2004. After a brief period of Resident training in Orthopedic Surgery, he joined MSc in Biomolecular Sciences/Cell Biology in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2006). In the meanwhile, he moved to the Edinburgh (UK), where he worked for almost 14 months under the supervision of Prof. Vicki Stone in the Napier University. Upon finishing MSc, he began his Ph.D. in the Wageningen University (Netherlands) in 2008 which he successfully defended in 2012 with a very good thesis grade and quite few research papers. Following that, he worked for a year as a postdoc in the University of Twente (Netherlands). From March 2014 he joined Prof. David Brayden’s group in UCD as a postdoc working on the EU FP7 funded TRANS-INT consortium trying to develop nanoparticulate drug delivery platforms for oral insulin delivery. From February 2016 Sourav joined the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine as an Assistant Professor in Veterinary Anatomy while also trying to develop his own niche of research encompassing a broad range of nanobiotechnology and advanced microscopy tools for effective diagnostic and drug delivery platforms.
Dr. Priyanka Singh
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark – NDDTE 2027 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Priyanka Singh is a Senior Researcher and Co-PI at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark. She specializes in sustainable nanomedicine, focusing on the development of green nanomaterials for cancer therapy, antimicrobial resistance, and biofilm-associated infections. Dr. Singh has published 88 peer-reviewed papers with more than 9,700 citations in highly reputed journals, including Advanced Healthcare Materials, Molecular Cancer, Materials Today Bio, and Chemical Engineering Journal . She has led major EU- and Nordic-funded international collaborations and currently serves as Regional Coordinator for IEEE Women in Nanotechnology. Her research integrates advanced 2D, 3D, and in vivo models to translate green nanomaterials into clinically relevant therapeutic strategies.
Dr. Dejian Zhou
University of Leeds, UK – NDDTE 2027 Plenary Speaker
Dejian Zhou is Professor in Nanochemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) at the School of Chemistry. He is a PI member at the Astbury Centre for Structural molecular Biology and Bragg Centre for Materials Research at University of Leeds, UK. He obtained his BSc and PhD in Chemistry both from Peking University, China. Ater postdoctoral research at Cranfield University and University of Cambridge, he was appointed to a Senior Lecturer and then Professor of Nanochemistry at the University of Leeds, UK. He actively pursues a polyvalent multifunctional nanoparticle (PMN) strategy to address some important biomedical challenges, e.g. glycan-PMNs for probing and targeting multivalent protein-sugar interactions for mechanistic understanding and new therapeutic developments; multi-ligand functionalised PMNs for targeted theranostics of cancer and bacterial infections. He serves as an associate editor and/or editorial board member for several academic journals published by Science/AAAS, Wiley-VCH or MDPI. He has published >150 peer-reviewed papers in some high impact, prestigious journals (e.g, Nature Nanotech., JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater. etc) and 4 invited book chapters (H-index 52, Google Scholar), among which two research work have been highlighted on the BBC.
Dr. Witold Musial
Wroclaw Medical University, Poland – NDDTE 2027 Keynote Speaker
Witold Musiał is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland. He earned his PhD in the field of pharmaceutical sciences, focusing on ionic equilibria in polymeric systems proposed for topical drug delivery. Professor Musiał continued postdoctoral research in the frames of Marie Curie Fellowship at the Technical University of Maribor and at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Prague, where he explored synthesis and evaluation of thermosensitive microstructures and nanostructures for medical applications. His research interests include controlled drug delivery and evaluation of physical phenomena observed in acting drug dosage forms. Scientific team of professor Witold Musiał is concentrated on several topics in that field: surface and interfacial phenomena in pharmaceutical sciences, electrochemistry in pharmaceutical sciences, synthesis and application of polymers as hydrophilic matrices, nanoparticles and microparticles for controlled and targeted drug delivery, R&D of pharmaceutical and medicinal products and pharmaceutical analysis. Professor Witold Musiał is lecturer in the field o pharmaceutical sciences, including physical chemistry and biophysics for pharmacists, physics in pharmacy for Qualified Persons in pharmaceutical industry, and pharmacokinetics. Coworker of pharmaceutical industries. Visiting researcher and lecturer of universities in Europe and USA.