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Jacek Z Kubiak received his Master's degree in Plant Cytology from Warsaw University, Poland, in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Embryology from the same university in 1988, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Institute Jacques Monod, Paris, France, between 1989 and 1992. Since then, Kubiak has been a full-time researcher at the CNRS, France, where he pursued his. Since 2016, he has headed the laboratory of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (WIHE) in Warsaw, Poland. His scientific activity focuses on the regulation of the cell cycle, embryo development, and cell differentiation. He is interested in the developmental potential of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) of different origins, cell cycle regulation in stem cells and early embryos, and the mechanisms governing cell differentiation, both in MSC and upon gonad differentiation, when a binary decision is taken to form either an ovary or testis in the mouse and Xenopus laevis. He is a co-editor of the series “Results & Problems in Cell Differentiation” in Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

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Carlos S. Moreno, Ph.D., is Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Urology, and Biomedical Informatics at Emory University, where he is a member of the Winship Cancer Institute. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and worked for NASA before obtaining his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory University. His main research interests are in translational cancer bioinformatics to identify diagnostic markers for more effective and refined therapies, discover new potential therapeutic targets, and better understand the biology of tumor progression and prostate cancer health disparities. He is Section Editor-in-Chief of the Cancer Biomarkers section of the journal Cancers and an expert in biomarker development and genomic analysis of formalin-fixed tissue specimens. He has used machine learning algorithms to analyze large, multi-institutional cohorts of samples, developing elastic net gene signatures that diagnose aggressive prostate cancer based on RNA from extracellular vesicles present in the urine. He has also led multiple federally funded projects in basic and translational prostate cancer research.

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Claus Jacob is Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at Saarland University in Germany. He studied Chemistry and Philosophy at Kaiserslautern, Leicester, Hagen, and Oxford, where he obtained his DPhil in Bioinorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Allen Hill in 1997, supported by a stipend of the German Merit Foundation. After a postdoctoral stay as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Harvard Medical School with Bert Vallee, he joined the University of Exeter in 1999 as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and Saarland University in 2005 as Junior Professor. Claus is interested in various aspects of bioorganic chemistry, from redox modulation and nutraceuticals to biovalorisation and nanotechnology, and is currently involved in European cooperations and projects while editing the journals Current Nutraceuticals and Sci. His interest in the philosophy of chemistry centers around aspects of scientific explanation, chemical impurities, symbolism and language, and the role of communication in scientific discovery.