27^th International Conference on
Cancer Research and Oncology

Ondrej Slaby is a Professor of Medical Biochemistry at the the 1st Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He works as Research Group Leader at the Department of Molecular Medicine, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and as a Scientific Secretary at the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute in Brno. Prof. Slaby has published extensively in the field of non-coding RNAs and solid cancer with special focus on their translational potential in diagnostics and as the therapeutic targets (h-index 31, Sum of the times cited without auto-citations > 3500. Since 2018, prof. Slaby is a chair of Czechoslovak Biological Society. In 2010 and 2012 received Award of Czech Society for Oncology, in 2016 an Award of Czech Medical Society and 2014 and 2016 Award for Medical Research of Czech Minister of Health, Novartis Discovery Award 2017.

Molecular Medicine, Cancer Therapy

Dr. Igor F. Tsigelny is an expert in structural biology, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, structure-based drug design and personalized cancer medicine. He published >200 articles, 4 scientific books and around 15 patents. The book Protein Structure Prediction: Bioinformatic Approach that he edited has been called The Bible of all current prediction techniques by BioPlanet Bioinformatics Forums. His computational study of molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's disease was included in the US Department of Energy publication Decade of Discovery where the best computational studies of the decade 1999 - 2009 have been described. He is a Professor in the UC San Diego and CSO of CureMatch Inc. (San Diego).

Structural Biology, Molecular Modeling, Bioinformatics, Cancer Medicine

Barbara Wollenberg Professor at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. She studied medicine at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at LMU Munich, Germany. She got Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Helmholtz Centre in Munich, Germany. Barbara Wollenberg worked as a C4 professor of otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the Lübeck Campus of the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She worked Vice dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lübeck, Germany and Review board member of the German Research Foundation (DFG). She achieved many awards like Monika Kutzner Prize for cancer research from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), 2001, Anton von Troeltsch Prize from the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery for "Immunological therapies for patients with cancers of the head and neck", 1999. Her main specialization is in the field of Biochemistry, immunology. Apart from this she is also an eminent Specialist in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery, allergology, treatment of tumours using drugs, palliative medicine, ultrasound trainer.

Her main research interest is in the field Immune system responses to tumours and Development of vaccines.