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Keynote Speakers

Pierre Magistretti, MD, PhD

Distingushed Professor

Dean of the Division of the Biological and Environmental Sciences

and Engineering

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Professor Emeritus at the Brain Mind Institute at Ecole Polytechnique

Federale de Lausanne

President of International Brain Organization

Huda Akil, PhD
Gardner Quarton Distinguished University Professor of Neuroscience and

Psychiatry

Co-Director of the Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

University of Michigan

Axel Börsch-Supan, PhD

Professor of Economics of Aging

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Coordinator of Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe

Samia Khoury, MD

Professor of Neurology and Immunology

Director, Abu Haidar Neuroscience Institute

Director of Nehme and Therese Tohme Multiple Sclerosis Center

Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research Director

Faculty of Medicine

American University of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon

Toshihide Yamashita, MD, PhD

Distinguished Professor and the Head of Department of Molecular

Neuroscience and Department of Neuro-Medical Science

Osaka University

Hilal Lashuel, PhD

Associate Professor of Life Sciences

Director of the Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration

Brain Mind Institute

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Lausanne, Switzerland

Elie D. Al-Chaer, PhD. JD

Professor and Chairperson,

Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences

Faculty of Medicine

Chairman, Interfaculty Neuroscience Graduate Program

American University of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon

Plenary Speakers

Rose-Mary N. Boustany, MD

Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

American University of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon

Hussam Jourdi, PhD

Assistant Professor

Biology and Environmental Sciences Division Chairperson
Faculty of Sciences

University of Balamad

Lebanon

Sherif El-Khamisy, PhD

Professor

Deptuty Director of the Sheffield Institute of Healthy Life Span

Director of Research & Innovation at the Dept of Mol Biol & Biotech

University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

Monique Chaaya, DrPH

Professor of Epidemiology

Chairperson, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health

Faculty of Health Sciences

Beirut, Lebanon

Brigitte Khoury, PhD

Associate Professor

Director, Psychology Training Program

Director, Arab Research Center

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