David Cameron-Smith

David Cameron-Smith is Associate Professor at the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. Professor Cameron-Smith is actively engaged in understanding how dietary and lifestyle factors regulate cellular signalling and genes. He leads a research team focused on the molecular responses of skeletal muscle to both nutrients and exercise. Current clinical studies are aimed at elucidating the impact of ageing and nutrients on the skeletal muscle inflammatory responses. These studies are combined with human cultured muscle cells that enable the investigation of specific sites of molecular regulation. Professor Cameron-Smith’s laboratory has published over 60 scientific articles in the past 5 years.

Chan Soh Ha

Professor Chan Soh Ha is the Director of the National University Medical Institutes at the National University of Singapore, where he is also Emeritus Professor and Vice-Dean of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. As a Professor of Microbiology at the School of Medicine for over 20 years, Professor Chan is also the Director of the School of Medicine’s Immunology Centre.

In addition to his current appointments, Professor Chan actively provides his scientific expertise to numerous national and international institutions, organizations and companies. These include the World Health Organisation Expert Advisory Panel on Immunology; the Singapore Ministry of Health Subcommittee of Quality Control and Biological Standards for Hepatitis; the Singapore Ministry of Health Expert Committee on the Immunization Program; the Singapore Ministry of Health National Advisory and Scientific Committee on Hepatitis and Related Diseases; Isehara Sanyo Kaisha Scholarship Selection Committee, Singapore Economic Development Board etc.

Patricia Lynne Conway

Patricia Lynne Conway is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Marine Biofouling and BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Australia. Professor. Conway’s research interests are gastrointestinal microbiology and probiotics with particular emphasis on bacterial colonization of the gastrointestinal tract and mechanisms of bacterial adhesion and pathogen inhibition. She has authored over 70 scientific papers, written 16 monographs or book chapters, and is co-inventor on around 20 patents applications.

Johan Garssen

Johan Garssen is the Head of the Immunology section at Numico Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands. In addition, since 2005, he is Research Program Leader “immunopharmacology” at the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Dr. Garssen studied medicine and biology at the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He completed his PhD thesis in 1987 at the University of Utrecht on the role of T cells in respiratory allergy, an immunopharmacological approach. Parts of these studies were performed at Yale New Haven, USA.

After a post doctoral period, Dr. Garssen became senior scientist at the National Institute of Public Health in the Netherlands. At the National Institute, he coached both preclinical and clinical research projects in the field of immunomodulation induced by probiotics, drugs and environmental agents.

Dr. Garssen has published over 100 peer reviewed papers in the field of “immunomodulation”.

Pedro Gutiérrez-Castrellón

Pedro Gutiérrez-Castrellón is Research Director of the National Pediatric Institute, Mexico and Director of the Centre for Pediatric Evidence Analaysis COCHRANE-INP, Mexico. He is also Professor at the Medical Sciences Master and Doctorate Program, UNAM-National Pediatric Institute in Mexico. Dr. Gutiérrez-Castrellón has published several clinical papers on childhood infection and immune function. He has a degree in General Medicine from the Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Mexico, and Master and Doctorate degrees in Medical Sciences and Pediatric Clinical Nutrition from UNAM.

Lee Yuan Kun

Lee Yuan Kun is Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His research areas include microbe-host interactions, probiotics and prebiotics, and food biotechnology. His current positions are Vice-President of the Asian Federation of Societies of Lactic Acid Bacteria; Chairman, Biological and Chemical Technical Committee, Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Council; and President, Singapore Society of Microbiology and Biotechnology. Professor. Lee has published 83 papers in international refereed scientific journals, contributed to 29 chapters in books, and authored 3 monographs. He is also inventor of 3 patents.

Adrian Martineau

Adrian Martineau is currently Clinical Research Fellow at Barts and the London School of Medicine in London, Honorary Research Fellow at the National Institute of Medical Research in London and at the Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, and Specialist Registrar, Respiratory Medicine at NE Thames Rotation, London. Dr Martineau obtained his degree from the Royal College of Physicians at Glasgow. He is chief investigator of the ongoing Trial of Adjunctive Vitamin D in Tuberculosis Treatment, a multi-centre clinical trial funded by the British Lung Foundation. Its goal is to investigate whether high-dose vitamin D enhances response to standard antituberculous treatment.

Daniel Raederstorff

Daniel Raederstorff is Senior Scientist and Laboratory Head of the Human Nutrition Department at DSM Nutritional Products, Switzerland. His work demonstrates the health benefits of nutraceuticals. Dr. Raederstorff joined Roche in 1987 as a research scientist in lipid nutrition. He designed and carried out animal and clinical studies in humans to prove the efficacy of n-3 PUFAs on heart function, blood pressure, and endothelial function. He obtained his Ph.D. in bio-organic chemistry from University of Haute Alsace, Mulhouse.

Sunil Sazawal

Professor Sazawal started his distinguished medical career in 1983 with his medical graduation from the University of Kashmir, and subsequently post graduate training in Paediatric Gastroenterology at AIIMS New Delhi (Premier Tertiary Care and Medical Training Institute in India). After 10 years in Clinical Paediatrics and Gastroenterology he further specialised in Epidemiology and Public Health at McMaster University in Canada and Johns Hopkins University in USA where he completed a Masters in Public Health in 1991. Professor Sazawal also completed his PhD in Disease Prevention and Nutrition from Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Professor Sazawal has been actively involved in Research in Child health, Nutrition and Infectious Disease for last 15 years. He is a recognized expert in Micronutrient area, and has served as a World Health Organisation (WHO) consultant numerous times. He co-ordinated the Zinc Collaborative Group and is an active Member of Zinc Task Force (a collaboration of UNICEF, WHO, USAID and JHU). Professor Sazawal has been a principal investigator in more than 30 research projects in including projects funded by the World Health Organization, Geneva and NIH USA.

Mimi Tang

Associate Professor Mimi Tang is a consultant paediatric allergist immunologist at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. She is also Group Leader of the Allergy & Immune Disorders Research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.

Professor Tang has more than 15 years experience in the investigation of basic immunological mechanisms underlying allergic disease pathogenesis, and correlation of mechanistic studies with clinical outcomes. She has experience in clinical trial research as part of a team, being a sub-investigator on an international multicentre trial of immunotherapy for the prevention of asthma, co-investigator on an industry funded subcutaneous immunoglobulin for immune deficiency clinical trial, and middle clinical investigator on a pneumococcal vaccination trial in Fiji. She is committed to research translation into clinical / commercial application, and her work has led to a provisional patent and a patent application in preparation.

Dayong Wu

Dayong Wu is Scientist II at the Nutritional Immunology Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research on Ageing (HNRCA) at Tufts University. Dr. Wu is also Assistant Professor at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. His research areas include molecular mechanisms of age-related changes in immune cells, effects of dietary lipids and antioxidant nutrients on immune and inflammatory responses, and eicosanoid metabolism and immune function. Dr. Wu is a member of the American Ageing Association and the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and has authored numerous HNRCA research publications. He has a degree in Medicine from the Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences, China and a Ph.D. in Immunology from Jilin University, Bethune School of Medicine.