Mario GIORGI is currently associate professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Pisa (Italy) and honorary professor at the Kasetsart University Thailand. He was visiting professor at several foreign institutions (Poland, Australia, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Iran, China, Thailand, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Thailand) caring out mutual research and teaching. His main research fields are: pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamic studies in different animal species; toxicology in veterinary medicine and analytical chemistry. He is European editor of Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and associate editor of Veterinary and Animal Science. He is authors of more than over 230 peer reviewed papers.

Dr. Deniz Uğurlu-Çimen completed her undergraduate and master’s studies in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Bilkent University, and earned her Ph.D. from Koç University. During her master’s studies, she worked in the laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Işık Yuluğ, focusing on therapeutic strategies for breast cancer.

For her doctoral research, Dr. Deniz Uğurlu-Çimen joined the laboratory of Prof. Tamer Önder, where she investigated the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms underlying induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). During her time at Koç University, she also collaborated on joint projects with Prof. Bruno Reversade, Prof. Nurhan Özlü, and Prof. Özgür Öktem. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals, and she has presented her findings through oral and poster presentations at international scientific conferences. All of her academic work was supported by prestigious fellowships from TÜBİTAK BİDEB.

Following her Ph.D., Dr. Uğurlu-Çimen conducted postdoctoral research at BIDMC, affiliated with Harvard University, where she studied the impact of post-transcriptional regulation on osteoclasts and bone development. She is currently continuing her postdoctoral research at the University of Texas, where her work focuses on the discovery of non-coding RNAs using three-dimensional brain organoid models, with a particular interest in their roles in neurodevelopmental processes.