Advisory Board and Editors COVID-19
Giuseppe Lanza
Dr. Giuseppe Lanza was born in Catania (Italy) in 1982. He currently works as a Senior Academic Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Catania (Italy). After graduation with honours in Medicine, he trained at the School of Neurology and got the international PhD at the same University. As visiting Clinical Research Fellow, he further trained at the Department of Neuroscience and Clinical Neurophysiology of the Newcastle University (UK). In 2013 he was selected for a Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013 to October 2018, he worked as a Consultant Neurologist at the “Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS” in Troina (Italy), which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO), and where now he currently holds the position of Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit. From 2015 to October 2018, he taught Neurology at the University of Enna (Italy). He has authored more than 150 publications in internationally-indexed peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences or Meetings, and he currently serves as Editor and invited Reviewer of several international Journals. More recently, he has obtained the Master of Science in Clinical Research and the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor (procedure for the Italian University Professor recruiting, based on criteria of scientific qualification).
Mohamed Lounis
Dr Mohamed Lounis is a Lecturer at the Department of Agroveterinary Sciences, University of Ziane Achour Djelfa, Algeria. He completed his PhD in veterinary epidemiology from the University of Blida in 2018.
His research broadly concentrates on human and animal epidemiology. More precisely, he began his research on animal colibacillosis including calf and avian colibacillosis with Escherichia coli genotyping and phenotyping and antibiotic resistance. Later, he conducted multiple studies related to the epidemiology of COVID-19 in Algeria and in Arabic countries. These works were mainly based on modeling the propagation of the disease and the attitudes toward COVID-19 and its vaccines.
Dr. Lounis is also working on a One health approach through different surveys about multiple animal and public health threats including drug use and antibiotic resistance, infectious diseases including HPV infections, AIDS, monkeypox, viral hepatitis (A-E) and other zoonotic diseases including bacterial (tuberculosis, brucellosis...), parasitic (echinococcosis, leishmaniasis…) and viral (rabies, arboviroses…) diseases. He is also working on the epidemiology of non transmissible diseases including cancer, diabetes, hypertension..
Carla N Mavian
My research aims at understanding the eco-evolutionary pathways that lead to emergence and dispersal of zoonotic and human pathogens, with emphasis on land use and climate change, within the One Health approach. I employ genomics, metagenomics and phylodynamics as tools to elucidate the evolutionary processes and population dynamics that shape viral genetic diversity both at the inter-host (epidemics) and in intra-host level (individual infections).
Felipe G Naveca
I am a microbiologist with experience in classical and molecular techniques applied to the study of human pathogens, mainly threatening RNA and DNA viruses. My research focuses on developing diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology, and evolution, mostly on emergent and reemergent viruses. My team approaches include genomics and phylogenetic studies to characterize known and unknown viruses; field studies on arboviral emergence in a rural area in the Brazilian Amazon; immunogenetics studies related to susceptibility or resistance against microbial infections; studies on biomarkers of acute viral illness; in vitro & in vivo virus-host interactions and evolution; and SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses molecular epidemiology. Senior investigator of Fiocruz Amazonas and Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. Member of the Brazilian Society for virology since 1997. Member of the Brazilian network of specialists in Zika and correlated diseases.
Martial Ndeffo
Dr. Martial Ndeffo is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Texas A&M School of Public Health. His research uses transdisciplinary modeling approaches to address public health challenges for a wide range of infectious diseases.
Mohd Noor Norhayati
Dr. Mohd Noor Norhayati is an Associate Professor and Medical lecturer within the Department of Family Medicine at Universiti Sains Malaysia.
She is a Public Health Physician who specializes in Maternal Health. Dr. Norhayati is also a trainer for Cochrane reviews.
Sonia MR Oliveira
Doctor Sonia Oliveira holds a Licenciatura in Biology (pre-Bologna) and a Master in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Aveiro, where she also specialized in medicinal plants, toxicology, murine models, and spermatogenesis. In 2011 she moved to Australia to work in Reproductive Biological Sciences. She later explored the nerve-cancer connection in Cancer, namely in female cancers, and completed her Ph.D. in Human Physiology ( with a significant component in Medical Biochemistry and Neurophysiology) from the University of Newcastle (Australia) in 2018. She then worked with biomimetic systems and nanotechnology in diabetes and stem cells. She explored multiple methods for primary and secondary cell culture, always with a keen interest in histopathology, cell biology, and rare disorders. Participated in >40 event(s). (Co-)Supervised MSc dissertation(s) and final projects for course completion of LSc/BSc. And works mostly in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Neurosciences, Cancer, Reproduction, Toxicology, Biotechnology, and Stem cells. Also has collaborations in Microbiology, Biomaterials, and Communication and Information technologies.
Ajinkya M Pawar
Dr. Ajinkya Pawar is a dedicated researcher and enthusiastic adopter of new technologies which improve treatment results both for doctors and patients. He has decided to dedicate his work life to broaden and expand his knowledge for Endodontics. In his young span as Endodontist, he has already published more than 90 scientific studies in both National and International Indexed Journals with high Impact Factors, and a few more in press and under preparation, together with high ranked International Researchers.
He is passionate about learning new developments in Endodontics and he has travelled around the world pursuing this passion. He has attended various numerous National and International Conferences as a Student, Delegate, Keynote/Guest Speaker, Chairperson, and Moderator. He also serves as the Editorial Board member of various journals.
Dr. Ajinkya has been awarded with Fellowship by Pierre Fauchard Academy (India and USA Section) in 2016, Best Endodontist of the Year 2016, 2017, 2019 by FamDent India and India's Young Dental Researcher of the Year 2017.
Nagarajan Raju
Nagarajan Raju completed his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. Earlier, he worked as a project assistant at a bioinformatics center, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, where he mainly focused on the computational analysis of protein structures and interactions. After his Ph.D., he joined Dr. Georgiev‘s laboratory as a post-doctoral research fellow in April 2016 and focused on computational immunology research. In March 2022, he joined the Bosinger lab as an Associate Bioinformatics Scientist where he will be focusing on the analysis of bulk and scRNAseq data to understand the immune responses due to infection and/or vaccination.
Jayakumar Saikarthik
Dr Saikarthik has an undergraduate degree in Radiology and Imaging Sciences Technology from Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, India. He obtained his MSc in Medicine and Anatomy, followed by a PhD in the same specialty from the prestigious Saveetha University, India.
Dr Saikarthik's research interests include, Gross and Radiological Anatomy, Neurogenesis and Neurohistology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Medical Education and Qualitative Research Methods. He has authored many scientific articles which have been published in ranked journals. Recently he has also published a book chapter on the association of COVID-19 with neurogenesis.
Dr Saikarthik is a fellow from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, UK; Member of the British Association of Clinical Anatomy; Member of the Saudi Society of Medical Education and Member of the Royal Society of Biology UK. He is also a member and certificate holder of Essential Skills in Medical Education from Association of Medical Education from Europe.
Some of his awards include: Best oral presentation award from Association of Anatomist of Tamilnadu, Young researcher in Anatomy and Mental health (2021) and Global Faculty Award (2020). He is also currently an Associate Editor at Majmaah Journal of Health Sciences.
Margo Seltzer
Margo Seltzer the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in Computer Science at The University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in systems, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and accessing data provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, storage and analysis of graph-structured data, new architectures for parallelizing execution, and systems that apply technology to problems in healthcare.
Dr. Seltzer was a co-founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award.
She serves on Advisory Council for the Canadian COVID alert app and
the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the (US) National Academies.
She is a past President of the USENIX Assocation and served as the USENIX representative to the Computing Research Association Board of Directors and on the Computing Community Consortium.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Sloan Foundation Fellow in Computer Science, and an ACM Fellow. She is recognized as an outstanding teacher and mentor, having received the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award in 1996, the Abrahmson Teaching Award in 1999, the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising in 2010, and the CRA-E Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award in 2017.
Tavpritesh Sethi
Dr. Tavpritech Sethi is founding Head of Center of Excellence in Healthcare at IIIT-Delhi. Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Biology. Clinician Data Scientist. Fellow of the DBT/Wellcome India Alliance and the Kavli Foundation (National Academy of Sciences, USA).
Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings.