October 23-25, 2025

Heidelberg, Germany

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Sergey V. Suchkov
Sergey V. Suchkov
Professor, National Center for Human Photosynthesis, México.
Research Interests: Immunochemical characteristics of three novel reina-specific antigens in humans and some mammals, Serology in ophthalmic oncology - findings and outlook for the future, Catalytic antibodies in immune-mediated disorders, Clinical and immune-mediated syndro.

Sergey Suchkov, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University with MD in 1980. From 1980 through 1983 has been working as Res Associate, and from 1983 through 1985 as Senior Res Associate at the Inst of Medicical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1985, maintained his PhD at the Sechenov University. From 1986 through 1994 was a Senior Res Associate at a variety of the Research Institutions and Universities in Moscow. In 1989-1993, was trained at the NEI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, and Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA, as well as at some of the British universities on the invitation of the Royal Society for Immunology. From 1994 through 2006, was a Director of the Division for Clinical Immunology & Immunobiotechnology, Vladimiskii Moscow Clinical Research Institute (MONIKI). In 2002, maintained his Doctor’s Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. From 2006 through 2014, was The First Vice-President responsible for Personalized and Precision Medicine of The University of World Politics and Law, Moscow, Russia. From 2003 through 2021, was a Professor of the Dept for Clinical Human Pathology of Sechenov University,Moscow, Russia. From 2014 through 2021, was a Professor and Chair of the Dept (since 2016 The Director of the Center) for Personalized & Precision Medicine of Sechenov University,Moscow, Russia. From 2021 through Jan 2023, is a Professor, Chair of the Dept for Personalized Medicine, Precision Nutriology & Biodesign, and Vice-Director for Research, International Collaboration & Development of the Institute for Biotechology & Global Health of the RosBioTech National University, Russia. From 2007 through the present time, is a Professor of the Dept for Clinical Allergology & Immunology of the Russian University of Medicine, Moscow, Russia. From 2004 through 2021 was staying in USA, Europe and Japan, whilst doing a lot to implement technologies of Personalized and Precision Healthcare services into the daily clinical practice.

Hui Liu
Hui Liu
Researcher, Universität Bremen, Germany.
Research Interests: Biosignal Processing, Human Activity Recognition, Virtual Reality, Music Information Retrieval, Multidisciplinary Application of AI.

He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin (Dipl.-Ing., 2009) and information and communication systems at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (M.Sc., 2011). Since 2016, he has been a researcher for biosignal processing, human activity recognition, virtual reality, music information retrieval, and multidisciplinary application of AI at the Cognitive Systems Lab of the University of Bremen, where he received my Ph.D. (2021). He is co-responsible for four multipartner projects: Arthrokinemat (intelligent knee bandage), IntEL4CoRo (interactive learning for cognitive robotics), NF-BWB (young talent development), and SEED (reflecting artificial biosignals for human robot interaction). He developed the first smart knee bandage that recognizes users' activities in real-time (Best Student Paper, BIODEVICES 2019) and proposed Motion Units, an activity modeling method with interpretability, generalizability, and expandability, rationalizing kinesiology and speech recognition knowledge into human activity research (2021). Three papers on high-level feature design (co-author), music signal processing (first author), and EMG-based AUR (co-author) were/are the Best Paper Finalists by BIOSIGNALS 2022, SIGMAP 2022, and BIODEVICES 2025, respectively. Eight articles for which he is the single first or/and corresponding author were marked as "Highly Cited Paper" (top 1%) and "Hot paper" (top 0.1%) by World of Science. He collected and released the 19-channel, 22-activity, 20-subject human activity dataset CSL-SHARE (2021). A dataset of ECG acquisition artifacts called sensORder was published under my guidance (2024). He received the following third-party funding and awards: the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Award (2018), the CAMPUSiDEEN Public Choice Award for advanced sensing and recognition technology (2022), and the YERUN Research Mobility Award (2022/2023). He has served as Co-Chair, Co-PC, Co-TPC, AC, or Publicity Chair for over ten important international conferences, including 33rd ICANN, 17th BIOSIGNALS, and 7th ABC. He is an editorial member of several international journals, and was awarded Sensors 2023 Outstanding Reviewer.

Recently, his international collaboration has expanded to AI for energy efficiency and smart building, assistance tool for amateur singers and exoskeletons, among others, for which a considerable number of topics are carried out in parallel. Currently, he is a chief expert invited by Guodian Nanjing Automation Co., Ltd., and a guest chief professor invited by Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology.



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Ludger Johannes
Ludger Johannes
Research Director, Institut Curie, France.
Research Interests: Cell biology, Chemistry-Biology.

Ludger Johannes has specialized in the field of endocytosis and intracellular trafficking. He and his team study how sugars attached to proteins or lipids influence the transport of biological material into eukaryotic cells. Johannes is research director “classe exceptionnelle”(DRE) at the Institut Nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM, where he was recruited in 1997. He currently directs the Cellular and Chemical Biology department (U1143 INSERM–UMR3666 CNRS) at Institut Curie in Paris, France. He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO], and German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and an alumnus of the Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim Fond–Foundation for Basic Research in Medicine and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

Shixin Ye-Lehmann
Shixin Ye-Lehmann
INSERM Tenured Researcher, University Paris-Saclay, France.
Research Interests: Innovative Optogenetics Tools, Structure Function Relationship of Nerve Receptors and Their Implications in Diseases.

Dr. Ye-Lehmann graduated from the Chemistry Department of Peking University with a bachelor degree. She went to the USA in 1998 and received PhD in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She moved to France as a research fellow at the Institute of Biology of Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in 2010, sponsored by the Pierre-Gille de Gennes Foundation. She subsequently became a project leader in ENS and was recruited by INSERM as a tenured researcher in 2011. In 2016, through an open call competition, she was awarded to set up a Synthetic Biology Team in the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology of the Sorbonne University. From 2016 to 2019, she moved to the INSERM U1195 unit specialized in neurosteroids and diseases, which situated inside the Bicetre Hospital. Since then she focuses on innovative optogenetics tools to study structural-function relationships of neuronal receptors, and providing therapeutic insights for anesthesia and diseases such as the Alzheimer's. She has published more than 50 papers in journals.

Nandini Vasudevan
Nandini Vasudevan
Associate Professor, University of Reading, UK.
Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology and Molecular Endocrinology with an Emphasis on Behaviour Using Physiologically Relevant Model Systems.

Dr. Nandini Vasudevan is currently working as an Associate Professor in Endocrinology in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, United Kingdom. She has been Member of the Molecular & Cellular Medicine Group Esteem Factors: she was PI on a NSF CAREER (USA) grant "Role of nongenomic estrogen signaling in neuromorphology and behavior (April 2011- Dec 2015; 1 million USD), co-investigator on NIH R01 Grant "Short term estradiol in middle age: implications for female cognitive aging" (2012-2017; 1,388,365 USD; PI: Dr. Daniels). She also serves Reviewer for endocrine and molecular endocrine journals, and reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF), USA grants.

Andy Zeng
Andy Zeng
Head of R&D, Department of Danone Group in the Netherlands, France, Synthetic Biology (Edible Protein Synthesis)
Research Interests: Gut microbiota, Microbial Physiological Metabolism.

Dr. Zhe Zeng is a senior scientist affiliated with the Danone Nutricia Research Institute in the Netherlands. He has been engaged in research on gut microbiota and microbial physiological metabolism for over ten years. He obtained his Ph.D. from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and his Master's degree from the Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a guest editor for the renowned microbiology journal Frontiers in Microbiology and as an industry mentor for several universities. He founded NewPro Bioworks, which leverages synthetic biology enabling technologies and precision fermentation to advance the biomanufacturing of functional dairy proteins such as lactoferrin, casein, and beta-lactoglobulin.

Lianyi Han
Lianyi Han
Senior Researcher, Greater Bay Area Institute of Precision Medicine, China
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence-Aided Drug Design (AIDD), Bioinformatics, Next-generation Artificial Intelligence Pharmaceutical Technology driven by Data and Knowledge.

Dr. Han currently serving as a Senior Researcher at Greater Bay Area Institute of Precision Medicine and a Concurrent Researcher at the School of Life Sciences, Fudan University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and from 2006 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the United States. From 2009 to 2018, he served as a Staff Scientist and Senior Scientist at the NIH. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Chief Scientist at Tencent's U.S. Medical AI Lab and a Tencent Expert Researcher. His main research areas are Artificial Intelligence-Aided Drug Design (AIDD) and bioinformatics; focusing on the next-generation artificial intelligence pharmaceutical technology driven by data and knowledge, as well as research combining AI with medicine, pharmacy, biology, and chemical knowledge driven by big data.

Wei Wu
Wei Wu
Associate Professor, Jilin University, China
Research Interests: Signaling Mechanism of T cells.

Dr. Wu studies at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, her main research direction was the signaling mechanism of T cells, focusing on the activation mechanism of the T cell immune receptor TCR from the perspectives of signal receptors and lipid molecules, as well as the design and modification of CAR-T cells. By establishing a quantitative mass spectrometry system, it was discovered that TCR is a signal self-regulatory receptor that includes both activating and inhibitory motifs. The novel E28Z CAR-T cells designed based on this theoretical foundation have shown strong anti-tumor activity in both hematological and solid tumor models. The research findings were published in CELL and were selected as one of the "Top Ten Advances in Chinese Life Sciences" for 2020 and one of the "Important Medical Progress" in China for 2020. In addition, she wrote a review article on the regulation of T cell signaling by lipid molecules on the cell membrane, which was published in Nature Reviews Immunology. She has a systematic understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which lipid molecules regulate T cells, which can lay the foundation for future research.