Stem Cells 2019

Lange graduated with a medical degree with distinction from the Medical School in Wroclaw, Poland is a professor in the Institute of

Immunology and Exp Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a founder and head of the Lower Silesian Center of Cellular Transplantation in Wroclaw. His international experience started in 1973-1974 as a Leverhulme fellow in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. He has been a visitor and lectured in several European and North American scientific institutions. Known from his activity in the field of bone marrow transplantation and regenerative medicine. Andrzej Lange was awarded several scientific distinctions and served to a number of National and European institutions were also active in co-editing journals. He is an author and co-author of 249 scientific papers, in peer-reviewed journals with a cumulative IF of 270 in the years 1995–2017.

Sarnat is professor of Paediatric Neurology and Neuropathology at the University of Calgary and Alberta Children’s Hospital, Canada.

He has devoted most of his career to developmental (fetal and neonatal) neuroanatomy and neuropathology, particularly in relation to brain malformations with clinical correlates and to the developmental neuropathology of epilepsy. He is one of 8 permanent member of the International League Against Epilepsy, Commission on Neuropathology. His 180 research publications include clinical studies that have become classics as the Sarnat grading scale of neonatal encephalopathies (1976) and the first description of neonatal olfactory reflexes (1978), as well as a recent long series of articles defining the sequence of synaptogenesis in the fetal brain and another series on development of the olfactory system. He is sole or co-author or editor of several textbooks and has contributed 120 chapters to textbooks and monographs. He serves on the editorial boards of 9 journals. He was keynote speaker at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Canadian Association of Neuropathologists and was the prestigious Bernard Sachs Lecturer in 2016 at the congress of the Child Neurology Society (U.S.A.). He lectures frequently throughout Europe, Latin America, Japan, Australia, U.S.A. and Canada. His wife and co-author of many

publications, Dr. Laura Flores-Sarnat, is professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary, formerly head of Child Neurology at the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, a large university children’s teaching hospital in Mexico City.

Jose Inzunza is an associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet (KI). He received his doctorate in obstetrics and gynecology at Karolinska University Hospital, KI. With a specialization in cytogenetics, he worked on his doctoral work with a project in clinical application of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). He has also been involved in the development and implementation of the laboratory for derivation and differentiation of human embryonic stem cell research at KI. This was the first bank of human embryo stem cells in Sweden and Scandinavia. Jose has also worked with cellular re-programming. Today, Jose's line of research is in stem cells and tumorogenesis and genetic stability of these cells during the differentiation process.

Mario Navarrete Arellano is a pecialist in Medical Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgeon, 29 years of experience in pediatric surgery, open surgery and conventional minimally invasive (thoraco-laparoscopy) and in the last 4 years has developed the expertise in robotic surgery (more than 200 procedures), in a public hospital of third level of care and performing private practice. Graduate from the Escuela Médico Militar (1975- 1981) and Escuela Militar de Graduados de Sanidad (1982-1990), Universidad del Ejército y Fuerza Aérea Mexicanos. I hold the degree General Brigadier Surgeon Medical. Hospital trajectory: Added Medical Doctor, Head of Service, Head of Department, Head of Division of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Head of the External Assistence Area and Medical Subdirector in the Hospital Central Militar, Mexico City (1990-2018). Profesor and Chief of Courses of Pre and Postgraduate of Medical Pediatric and Pediatric Surgery, Escuela Médico Militar and Escuela Militar de Graduados de Sanidad, Universidad del Ejército y Fuerza Aérea (1985-2009). Mexico City. Advisor in 10 Works of Research (Thesis of Degree). More than 50 Publications in Medical Journals of the Specialty and Author or co-author of 4 Chapters in specialty books. Speaker or Profesor in more than 200 academic events, national or international. Member of 10 Societies, Associations, College and Academy National and International.

Dimosthenis Mavrilas is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aer/tics, University of Patras, Greece. He is an expert in biomechanics of biomaterials and biomedical engineering of cardiovascular system. Last decade his research targets in tissue engineering, producing scaffolds either of biological origin (decellularized animal tissues) or from synthetic polymers. His research team achieved the production of either random or parallel fibrous orientation of synthetic biodegradable polymeric nanofibers, capable for the structure of multi laminate biomimetic scaffolds, suitable especially for cardiovascular tissue engineering.