Yizhou Jiang obtained his bachelor's degree from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2017. He is currently a SUSTech-University of Macau joint Ph. D. student. His major research interests are aging and neurobiology.

Limor Rubin obtained her M.D. degree in 2015 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thereafter, she completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Hadassah-Hebrew University and from 2020, she is performing a fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Present position: Senior Physician, Internal Medicine Department B, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Main research fields: internal medicine, respiratory diseases, allergy, asthma, common variable immunodeficiency, COVID -19 immune responses, diagnosis and therapy.

Dr. Qiaozhu Su is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom. She leads a research team to decipher the molecular mechanisms linking redox signalling (e.g., CREBH/ERK) with metabolic syndrome and the parasympathetic nervous system in lipid metabolism and insulin resistance. Dr. Su’s research program has been supported by funding from NIH and USDA in the USA, BHF and NICHS in the UK.

Lazarovici Philip. Obtained his PhD degree in pharmacology and toxicology 1980 from The Hebrew University, post graduated 1984 on neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and was a visiting scientist from 1984-1988 in the Section of Growth Factors at the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, USA. He was a Fogorty visiting scientist at NIH (1990-1998), Drexel University (2004-2011) and Temple University (2012-2015), Philadelphia, USA. Present position: Professor Emeritus, Jacob Gitlin Chair in Physiology, School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Main research fields: neuronal and non-neuronal pharmacological activities of nerve growth factor, trkA, p75NTR and α9β1-integrin signaling and role in neuroprotection, angiogenesis and tumor development; toxins, lead compounds, drug discovery and development, cell therapy, stem cells, neurological disorders.

Wenhua Zheng is a professor at University of Macau, Faculty of Health Sciences. Main research fields: neuropharmacology; aging, neuronal degenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease and degenerative retinal diseases; molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell death; drug development.

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