Topics Webinar | 2025 Young Investigator Award Ceremony for Biomedicines, Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceuticals
Topics Webinar | 2025 Young Investigator Award Ceremony for Biomedicines, Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceuticals
Part of the MDPI Topics Webinars series
22 May 2026
Award Ceremony, Young Investigator, Biomedicines, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceuticals
Welcome from the Chair
Topics Webinar
2025 Young Investigator Award Ceremony for Biomedicines, Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceuticals
Welcome to the Young Investigators Awards Webinar! I am Professor Victor M. Rivera, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA, and have great pleasure to Chair this important scientific event celebrating the Biomedicines, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceuticals Young Investigator Award winners for the 2025 cycle. These young scientists have been selected from an outstanding and competitive group of international young investigators contending for this prestigious scientific award. The winners are all nominated by two senior scientists; must have received their PhD/MD degree no more than 10 years prior to the 31st of December of the year of the competition, and their work should disclose the fundamental quality of being ground-breaking research and a significant contribution to the advancement of therapeutic medicines. I thank the journals of Biomedicines, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceuticals, their editorial group and staff, and their respective Award Committees constituted by recognized and distinguished scholars and members of the Editorial Boards for making this possible.
The 2025 winners will receive 1000 or 2000 CHF, a recognition certificate and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year. The 2025 winners for Biomedicines are Dr. Adil Rasheed and Dr. Meghna Gupta, and Dr. João Carlos Fernandes da Silva for Pharmaceutics and Dr. Karolina Beton-Mysur for Pharmaceuticals. Hope you join us for this important scientific recognition and celebration.
Date: 22 May 2026
Time: 5:00 pm CEST | 11:00 am EDT
Webinar ID: 850 8375 3671
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Registration
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Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar.
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Event Chair
Dr. Rivera is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine and Emeritus/Honorary Neurologist at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA. He is considered an international Key Opinion Leader on multiple sclerosis and has been recognized with unprecedented Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Consortium of MS Centers (CMSC) and the US National MS Society and received the 2022 Giants of MS recognition from the CMSC, Global Impact Category.
Keynote Speakers
Department of Physiology, Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at
Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
Dr. Rasheed obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2017, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Here his work focused on the influence on metabolic pathways on disease burden in atherosclerosis. Dr. Rasheed’s original research, review and editorial work during his fellowship was published in several high-impact journals in the cardiovascular field, including ATVB, Nature Cardiovascular Research, Circulation Research and Science. Dr. Rasheed began his appointment in the Immunology Center of Georgia in November of 2023. As an Assistant Professor, Dr. Rasheed continues to serve within leadership committees of the American Heart Association and has published review articles and perspective pieces in Lipidology, Immunohorizons, Frontiers in Immunology and Cell.
Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Oregon Health &
Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Dr. Meghna Gupta is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Her lab studies membrane protein structure and function in the context of human health and disease, using biochemistry, biophysics, cryo-electron microscopy, and cryoelectron tomography to connect molecular mechanisms with cellular function. Dr. Gupta completed her Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India and her postdoctoral training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA. Her work has appeared in reputed journals including PNAS, Science, Nature Communications, and Science Advances, and she is an active contributor to mentorship and community-building initiatives in the scientific community.
1. Department of Bioengineering, iBB-Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;
2. Associate Laboratory i4HB—Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Instituto Superior Técnico,
Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Laboratory of Laser Molecular Spectroscopy, Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Wroblewskiego 15, 93-590 Lodz, Poland
Program
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Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Time in CEST |
Time in EDT |
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MDPI Host-Marco Pedretti |
Opening Remarks |
5:00–5:05 p.m. |
11:00–11:05 a.m. |
|
Prof. Dr. Victor M. Rivera |
Award Ceremony |
5:05–5:15 p.m. |
11:05–11:15 a.m. |
|
Dr. Adil Rasheed |
MLKL (Mixed Lineage Kinase Domain-Like Protein): An Immunometabolic |
5:15–5:35 p.m. |
11:15–11:35 a.m. |
|
Dr. Meghna Gupta |
Supramolecular Assembly Shapes Autoantibody Recognition in |
5:35–5:55 p.m. |
11:35–11:55 a.m. |
|
Dr. João Carlos Silva |
TBD |
5:55–6:15 p.m. |
11:55–12:15 p.m. |
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Dr. Karolina Beton-Mysur |
TBD |
6:15–6:35 p.m. |
12:15–12:35 p.m. |
|
Q&A Session |
6:35–6:55 p.m. |
12:35–12:55 p.m. |
|
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MDPI Host-Marco Pedretti |
Overview of the Submission Process |
6:55–7:00 p.m. |
12:55–1:00 p.m. |
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Prof. Dr. Victor M. Rivera |
Closing of Webinar |
7:00–7:05 p.m. |
1:00–1:05 p.m. |
Relevant Special Issue
Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis and Treatment—3rd Edition
Edited by Prof. Dr. Víctor M. Rivera
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026
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