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Lighthouse Institute Director and Senior Research Psychologist
Chestnut Health Systems---
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biomolecular chemistry,Cancer,Diabetes,Genetics,Heart Disease,Oncology
Antonio Giordano, MD, PhD, is an oncologist and geneticist, as well as founder and president of the Sbarro Health Research Organization and director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He works on molecular therapeutics and also studies the connections between obesity and cancer. Antonio Giordano grew up in Naples, Italy, where his father, Giovan Giacomo Giordano, was an oncologist and pathologist at the National Cancer Institute of Naples and a professor at the University of Naples. Giordano decided to branch out and start a career in research that was more oriented towards genetics applied to pathology. Early on, while following his father's research, he became interested in the link between the effect of toxic waste on the environment and the increasing cancer rates in the Campania region in Italy. Giordano earned his medical degree at the University of Naples in 1986, and his doctorate at the University of Trieste in 1990. He has published over 600 papers on gene therapy, cell cycle, genetics of cancer, and epidemiology. His early research includes seminal work done in 1989, demonstrating the importance of cell cycle proteins in the functioning of DNA tumor viruses. The transforming gene products of these viruses, such as the E1A oncoproteins of adenovirus 5, led to the identification of cellular factor p60, known as cyclin A. This research was the first demonstration of a physical link between cellular transformation and the cell cycle, thereby paving the way for the melding of these two areas of research. It also helped to open a very exciting avenue of research involving investigators with expertise in different aspects of growth control and cancer.Giordano’s lab also discovered the tumor suppressor gene RB2/p130 and the cell cycle kinases CDK9 and CDK10, two other key players in cell cycle regulation and cell differentiation. Antonio Giordano is the recipient of the Irving J. Selikoff Award for Cancer Research, the Rotary International Award, and Lions Club Napoli-Europa. He has also received the title of Knight of the Republic and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. At the 25th anniversary of the National Organization of Italian American Women, he was awarded the Cross of Merit Melitense, an honor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. www.shro.org www.drantoniogiordano.com
Associate Professor, VCU School of Pharmacy
Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES)Diabetes,Diabetes & Endocrinology,Diabetes Alert Day,Diabetes and Adults,Diabetes Drugs,Diabetes Medications,Type 1 Diabetes,Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Director of Nutrition Services/Community Outreach
Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES),Bronx and Brooklyn,Diabetes,Diabetes and Adults,Diabetes and Latino,Diabetes Self-management,Health Literacy,Hispanic Health,hispanic health risk factors,Latino Health,Minority Health,Minority Health and Health Equity,Nutrition,Type 2 Diabetes
Clinical Physical Therapist, CDE
Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES)Diabetes,Diabetes & Endocrinology,Diabetes and Adults,Diabetes and exercise,Diabetes Management,Diabetes Self-management,Exercise,Insulin,Type 1 Diabetes,Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist, CDE
Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES)CGM,Diabetes,Diabetes & Endocrinology,Diabetes Management,Diabetes Self-management,Insulin Pump Therapy,Type 1 Diabetes,Type 2 Diabetes
Physics
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Biodefense,Biological Warfare,Biosecurity,Global Health,Infectious Disease,International Affairs,National Security,Pandemic,Public Health,Terrorism
Alzheimer's Disease,Multiple Sclerosis (MS),Neuroscience,Parkinson's Disease
ALS,Bipolar Disorder,Parkinson's Disease,Spinal Cord Injury,Stem Cells
ASCO,Breast Cancer,cancer disparities,Yale Cancer Center
Dr. Eric Winer is the Director of Yale Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven as of February 1, 2022. He is also the Alfred Gilman Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. An internationally renowned expert in breast cancer, Dr. Winer has led and collaborated on innumerable clinical trials that have changed the face of the disease.
Professor
Santa Fe Institutedata science,Quantum Computing
Cristopher Moore received his B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Integrated Science from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell. From 2000 to 2012 he was a professor at the University of New Mexico, with joint appointments in Computer Science and Physics. Since 2012, Moore has been a resident professor at the Santa Fe Institute; he has also held visiting positions at École Polytechnique, Université Paris 7, École Normale Superieure du Lyon, the University of Michigan, and Northeastern University. He has published over 130 papers at the boundary between physics and computer science, ranging from quantum computing, to phase transitions in NP-complete problems, to the theory of social networks and efficient algorithms for analyzing their structure. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Mathematical Society. With Stephan Mertens, he is the author of The Nature of Computation from Oxford University Press.
body size,Computation,data science,Machine Learning,Social Network,Social Science,Species,Terrorism
Native American history,Native Americans,Native peoples
Michael Leroy Oberg, the author of Native America, is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo and director of the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History, founded in February of 2019. In addition to this textbook, he has written the following works: Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999); Uncas: First of the Mohegans, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003); Samuel Wiseman’s Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005); The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand: Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); the first edition of Native America; Professional Indian: Eleazer Williams’s American Odyssey, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015); and Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). He has published, as well, articles and reviews, and has worked as a historical consultant for native communities in New York and North Carolina, as well as for the Indian Resources Section of the United States Department of Justice. He has won awards for his teaching and research in Montana and in New York, including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. A native of Ventura, California, Professor Oberg earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the California State University at Long Beach. He took his Ph.D in 1994 from Syracuse University. From 1994 until 1998, Professor Oberg taught at Montana State University at Billings, before moving back to upstate New York in 1998. With the exception of one year spent teaching at the University of Houston, he has been at SUNY-Geneseo ever since. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife Leticia Ontiveros and their five children. Professor Oberg is at work on a history of the Onondaga Nation, from the the time of the formation of the Iroquois League to the present, under the working title Onondaga: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of a Native American Capital City. He teaches classes at Geneseo in the College’s freshman writing program, its Humanities sequence and, for the Department of History, courses in Native American History, American Indian Law and Public Policy, and on the history of the Iroquois.