Founder
Chairman and Managing Director
Persistent Systems
Dr. Christina Curtis
Associate Professor
Stanford University
Dr. Wui-Jin Koh
Senior Vice President
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Dr. Nilesh Gardi
Graduate Scholar
Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC-TMC), India
Dr. Madhura Kulkarni
Senior Scientist and DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow
Center for Translational Cancer Research: IISER Pune and Prashanti Cancer Care Mission
Dr. Ashok Sharma
Associate Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, India
Dr. Abu Shadat Mohammod Noman
Visiting Faculty at McGill University
Canada and Eukaryotic Gene Expression and Function (EuGEF) Research Group, Bangladesh
Dr. Bushra Ateeq
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Senior Fellow, DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance
Dr. Jean Claude Zenklusen
PDirector, The Cancer Genome Atlas ( TCGA)
National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Prof. Shantanu Chowdhury
Senior Fellow
DBT / Wellcome Trust India Alliance
Professor
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi
Prof. Sudeep Gupta
Director
Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC-TMC), India
Dr. Kundan Sengupta
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Pune (IISER Pune), India
Dr. C.B Koppiker
Medical Director
Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, Centre for Translational Cancer Research (PCCM-CTCR), India ,
Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA
Prof. Rajesh Gokhale
Secretary of DBT, India
Mr. Ashutosh Kothari
Lead, Breast Surgery,
Guys and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust,
UK and Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network
Prof. L.S. Shashidhara
Dean of Research and Professor of Biology
Ashoka University and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Pune (IISER Pune), India
Prof. Chintamani
Consultant & Head (formerly)
Department of Surgery, Safdarjung Hospital, India ,
Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA
Prof. Sunil Badve
Vice Chair, Pathology Cancer Programs,
Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology Emory University School of Medicine, USA and Board Member ICGA.
MS. Rosita Kammler
Head, Translational Research Coordination
International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG), Switzerland
Dr. Juhi Tayal
Consultant Research & Coordinator Bio-repository
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre
Dr. Anjana Kulkarni
Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Lead for the Cancer Genetics Service
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
Prof. Jyotsna Dhawan
Interim CEO
DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
Dr. Kavishwar Wagholikar
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, USA.
Dr. Aruna Korlimarla
Principal Scientist
Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Center
Nagaraj Balasubramanian
Associate Professor
IISER, Pune
Adjunct Faculty, Pune University
Dr. Birendra Kumar Yadav
Biobank Manager
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), India
Prof. Dr. Md. Ruhul Amin
Director
Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
Prof. Subhashis Banerjee
Head of the Department
Ashoka University
Dr. Rosina Ahmed
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Kolkata, India
Dr. Pallavi Kshetrapal
Assistant Professor
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), India
Prof. Chintamani
Consultant & Head (formerly), Department of Surgery
Safdarjung Hospital, India ,
Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA.
Dr. Lokesh Agrawal
Program Director
Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch (BBRB),
Cancer Diagnosis Program Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
Dr. Devaki Kelkar
Senior Scientist
Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, India
Prof. S. Mahalingam
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
Prof. Rajesh Dikshit
Director
Centre for Cancer Epidemiology,
Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer-Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC-TMC), India
Dr. C.B Koppiker
Medical Director
Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, Centre for Translational Cancer Research (PCCM-CTCR), India ,
Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA
Dr. Jugnu Jain
Co-Founder and CEO
Sapien Biosciences
Conference Inauguration Session
December 4, Friday, 4 – 5 pm (IST)
Chief Guest
Hon’ble Dr Harsh Vardhan
Minister of Science and Technology,
Health and Family Welfare and EarthSciences,
Government of India
Dignitaries
Prof. Shekhar Mande
Director General
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Government of India, New Delhi
Dr. Jean C Zenklusen
Director, TCGA, NCI, NIH, USA
Prof Syed Modasser Ali
Chairman
Bangladesh Medical Research Council
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Joshua Edwards Professor of Laboratory Medicine Indiana University, USA
Dr. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Prof. Sudeep Gupta
Director ACTREC, Navi Mumbai
Prof Partha Majumder
National Science Chair
Government of India
Dr. Anguraj Sadanandam
Associate Professor
Institute of Cancer Research
London, UK
Dr. Anurag Agrawal
CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Dr. Maggie Cheang
Team Leader of Integrative Genomic Analysis in Clinical Trials in Division of Clinical Studies and the Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit (ICR-CTSU)
Dr. Jensen Claus
Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, NY, USA
Dr. Stephen Yip
Medical Director, Cancer Genetics & Genomics Laboratory and Centre for Clinical Genomics
Dr. Ajit Kembhavi
Professor Emeritus at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA)
Dr. Anand Deshpande
Founder
Chairman and Managing Director
Persistent Systems
Dr. Shantanu Chowdhury
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi
Dr. Mehmood-Uz-Jahaan
Director
Bangladesh Medical Research Council
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abu Shadat Mohammod Noman
SAdvisor (Technical and Foreign Affairs), Bangomata National Cellular and Molecular Research Center (BNCMRC) &, Professor at Visiting Status, Dept. of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Dr. C.B. Koppiker
Medical Director
Prashanti Cancer Care Mission
Pune
Dr. SVS Deo
Professor & Head, Department of Surgical Oncology, AIIMS, New Delhi
Dr. Ravi Mehrotra
CEO and Program Lead,
India Cancer Research Consortium (ICMR)
Prof. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
Director
Centre for Brain Research
IISc, Bangalore, India
Dr Tanvir Kaur
Deputy Director General
Division of Non-Communicable Diseases
ICMR, DHR, MoHFW
Government of India
Prof. Sunil Badve
Joshua Edwards Professor of Laboratory Medicine Indiana University, USA
Prof. Tanuja Sheth
Professor ( Onco-Pathology)
Tata Memorial Hospital
Mumbai, India
Dr. Jyothi S Prabhu
Associate Professor
St. John’s Research Institute (SJRI)
Bangalore
Dr. Omshree Shetty
Division of Pathology
Tata Memorial Hospital
Prof Sanjeev Galande
Dean ( R&D)
IISER Pune , India
Prof. Rakesh Mishra
CSIR-CCMB
Prof. Susanta RoyChoudhury
Chief, Basic Research
Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre Research Institute
Dr Siddhesh Kamat
Associate Professor
IISER Pune, India
Prof. Nitin S. Baliga
Senior Vice President
Director and Professor
Insitute of Systems Biology
Seattle, USA
Dr. Ramesh Hariharan
CEO
Strand Life Sciences
Bangalore, India
Dr. Madhuri Hegde
VP/ Chief Scientific Officer
PerkinElemer, USA
Dr. Paul Pagano
LungLifeAI, USA
Dr. Akhilesh Pandey
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Center for Individualized Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Padmashri Dr. Ravi Kannan
Director
Cachar Cancer Centre
Silchar, India
Santoshi Bandla
Senior Manager of Oncology Content Informatics, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dr. Anant Bhan
President
International Association of Bioethics
Dr. V. Premnath
Director
Venture Centre
Pune, India
Dr. Sangeeta Aggarwal
Founder
Voice of Cancer Patients
San Jose, USA
Dr. Shubra Priyadarshini
Editor, Nature India
New Delhi, India
Dr. Mandar Kulkarni
Director and Chief Executive Officer,
VCR Park Pvt. Ltd.
Prof LS Shashidhara
Dean, Ashoka University and Professor
IISER, Pune, India
Prof Sudeep Gupta
Director
ACTREC, Navi Mumbai, India
Dr. Anurag Agarwal
Director
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
New Delhi, India
Dr Santosh Dixit
Senior Scientist
Centre for Translational Cancer Research, Pune