Professor Emeritus of Oncology and Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Ontario Michael Brundage, MD MSC FRCP(C) is a Professor Emeritus of Oncology and of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University in Kingston. His research focuses on patient-reported outcomes and quality of life measurement (both in clinical practice and in clinical trials) and on quality of cancer care, with an emphasis on quality initiatives in oncology. He has enjoyed the privilege of working with many national and international organizations including the International Society for Quality of Life Research, the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (for which he was a long-standing chair of the PRO outcomes group), and Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. He is the Past-President of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology, and former director of Cancer Care and Epidemiology at Queen’s University. He is co-PI for the PROTEUS Consortium (with the PI Dr. Claire Snyder) which promotes quality of PROs both in clinical practice and clinical trials internationally.
Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering, Drexel University Mohammad, a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Drexel University, focuses on bio-inspired self-healing materials with a strong background in advanced material manufacturing and characterization. His current research is dedicated to harnessing nature's ingenuity to develop groundbreaking solutions for damage-responsive self-healing in concrete. He has also been involved in the development of vascular self-responsive composites for thermal regulation in buildings. His previous work includes the performance assessment of organic-based sealants, providing robust protection against concrete degradation. Moreover, Mohammad has worked on the conversion of waste coal combustion by-products into construction materials, striving to foster sustainability and minimize environmental impact.
Professor of Immunology, Western University Dr. Mansour Haeryfar is a Full Professor of immunology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and also currently serves as the President of the Canadian Society for Immunology (2023-2025). His team investigates anticancer and anti-pathogen immunity with a focus on designing novel and effective immunotherapeutic modalities.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Biology and Nanotoxicology, Leiden University Meiru is interested in the potential toxicity in living organisms that may be caused by a group of new emerging pollutants: plastic nanoparticles. She started her PhD project at IBL in 2019, working under the supervision of Prof. Michael K. Richardson (IBL) and Prof. Martina G. Vijver (CML). Her PhD project primarily focused on studying the toxicity of nanoplastics using a chicken embryo model. The research aimed to investigate the developmental toxicity in developing chicks caused by nanoplastics. When the research started, the field was relatively new, providing Meiru with a unique opportunity to carve her own insights into the realms of toxicology, embryology, developmental biology, pathology, and molecular biology. This experience has equipped her with a diverse set of research skills. Furemore, she is highly enthusiastic and has successfully collaborated with several institutions including, CML, LUMC, Swiss Light Source, and Naturalis Biodiversity Center. She defended her PhD thesis at 16th January 2024.
Research Fellow in Medical Humanities, China and the UK, University of Strathclyde Dr Mia Chen Ma received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Wuhan University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign respectively. She then earned her PhD in Chinese Literature and Culture from SOAS in 2022. She is currently revising her PhD thesis into a book, tentatively entitled Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction: Risk, Failure, and Solastalgia (Brill). Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, speculative fictions, and ecocriticism. Her research articles and book chapters have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of scholarly journals and edited volumes, including Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature: Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces, The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, Extrapolation, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, SFRA Review, Vector, Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, etc. Her most recent research project focuses on cultures of care, and explores the intersection between medical and environmental humanities. Research interests: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction Risk discourse and Contemporary Chinese Society Literature and Medical Humanities Posthumanism and Taoism
Professor of Law and International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University Prof. Michael C. Davis is the Professor of Law and International Affairs at O. P. Jindal Global University, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and a Senior Research Scholar at both the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University and the US Asia Law Institute at NYU. He was the 2018-2019 Residential Fellow at the Wilson Center and the 2016-2017 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the US National Endowment for Democracy. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong for many years until late 2016. He has held a number of distinguished visiting appointments, including J. Landis Martin Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (2005-6), the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University (2004-5) and the Frederick K. Cox Human Rights Professorship at Case Western Reserve University (2000), as well as the Schell Senior Human Rights Fellowship at Yale Law School (1994-5). His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals in law and politics. His books include Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Columbia University Press, author, 2020), International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (M. E. Sharp, editor, 2004), Human Rights and Chinese Values (Oxford University Press, editor, 1995) Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (St. Martin’s Press, author,1990). As a public intellectual he has contributed commentary to a variety of international media, including Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Nikkei Asian Review and the South China Morning Post, as well as such broadcast media as CNN, the BBC, and NPR. Amnesty International and the Hong Kong FCC awarded him a 2014 Human Rights Press Award for a series of commentary published in the South China Morning. For highlights of his various interest and activities see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Davis
