PLENARIES
The MedLIFE-24 Steerings Committee has invited and also received requests from renowned distinguished scientists from over the world to offer plenaries on cross-cutting themes of life sciences. We wish to express gratitude to those who have agreed to serve as plenary speakers. More plenaries will be announced soon (click to open content):
Plenary 1: Insights into the Evolution of the Universe and of Life
A.M. Celâl Sengör
Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Türkiye
Plenary 2: Mars: Water-related Paleoenvironments and Habitability
Jesús Martínez-Frías
President, Spanish Planetology and Astrobiology Network (REDESPA)
President, International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH)
Member of NASA-MSL, ESA-ExoMars and NASA-Mars2020 and the BIOMEX project (ISS)
Editor-in-Chief, Geosciences (MDPI)
Institute of Geosciences — IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
President, International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH)
Member of NASA-MSL, ESA-ExoMars and NASA-Mars2020 and the BIOMEX project (ISS)
Editor-in-Chief, Geosciences (MDPI)
Institute of Geosciences — IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
Plenary 3: Reprograming Prostate Cancer Cells to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance in Patients with Lethal Disease
Natasha Kyprianou
Woman of the Year 2012 (Academician/Scientist, Greece/Cyprus)
Recepient of Research Excellence Award, Distinguished Mentor Award, Distinguished Research Scholar Alumna, Williams Prostate Cancer Research Excellence Award (American Urologic Foundation), Excellence in Urologic Research Award (Society for Women in Urology), Chopin Award (European Association of Urology), and Distinguished Service Award & Meritorious Research Award (Society for Basic Urologic Research)
Johns Hopkins Society of University Scholars induction
Professor and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Recepient of Research Excellence Award, Distinguished Mentor Award, Distinguished Research Scholar Alumna, Williams Prostate Cancer Research Excellence Award (American Urologic Foundation), Excellence in Urologic Research Award (Society for Women in Urology), Chopin Award (European Association of Urology), and Distinguished Service Award & Meritorious Research Award (Society for Basic Urologic Research)
Johns Hopkins Society of University Scholars induction
Professor and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Plenary 4: Ecosystem Conservation around Coastal Areas: Helping the UN Sustainable Development Goals
James Crabbe
Founding Editor of Computational Biology and Chemistry (Elsevier)
Fellow of the Society of Biology (UK)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK)
Fellow of the Linnean Society (UK)
Former Chair of Education Committee of International Coral Reef Society
Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
Fellow of the Society of Biology (UK)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK)
Fellow of the Linnean Society (UK)
Former Chair of Education Committee of International Coral Reef Society
Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK