SATU Presidents' Forum
2020 General Assembly
2-3 November 2021 (GMT+8)
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SATU Presidents' Forum
Prof. Yong-Chao Su
Prof. Yong-Chao Su
Director, Division of Student Exchange, Office of Global Affairs
Director, Division of Student Exchange, Office of Global Affairs
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology
Kaohsiung Medical University
Kaohsiung Medical University
Bio
Bio
Dr. Su, Yong-Chao is the Principal Investigator of the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomic Laboratory (EEG lab) at the Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. Dr. Su is an evolutionary biologist who devotes his research effort in the biodiversity of the tropical SE Asian islands. His research emphasizes on the applications of the genomic techniques to answer the evolutionary questions regarding the changes of the geological process and climates to the genetic diversity in arthropods. Because of the expertise of the novel genomic tools developed at the EEG lab, Dr. Su’s research group also conduct research topics in biomedical sciences and public health. Arthropod disease vector control is one of the recent projects that was conducted at the EEB lab using the metagenomic and population genomic approaches.
Prof. Kovit Pattanapanyasat
Prof. Kovit Pattanapanyasat
Professor of Department of Research and Development
Professor of Department of Research and Development
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Siriraj Center of Research Excellence in Microparticle and Exosome in Diseases
Siriraj Center of Research Excellence in Microparticle and Exosome in Diseases
Mahidol University
Mahidol University
Bio
Bio
Kovit Pattanapanyasat received his B.Sc and M.Sc in Biochemistry from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 and 1977. He received his Dip. Bio. Med. Method, (1985) and Ph.D. in Haematology (1987) from the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, U.K. He is presently a professor at the Department of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. His principal research interest has always been in the use of flow cytometry to study immuno-pathophysiology of infectious diseases i.e. dengue, HIV and malaria, all of which are the diseases that have a great impact on the public health and economic burden in developing countries like Thailand. For dengue study, Professor Kovit and his research team have been working on the innate immune mechanisms particularly during acute infection period. They believe that the innate immune response might dictate the clinical severity of the diseases since innate immunity plays an intrinsic role at the level of the infected cells by recruiting and activating innate immune cells that can eliminate the virus at the early stage of infection and trick the development of the adaptive immune response.
Prof. Cheng-Ta Yang
Prof. Cheng-Ta Yang
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
National Cheng Kung University
National Cheng Kung University
Bio
Bio
Prof. Cheng-Ta Yang is currently the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Taipei Medical University and a distinguished Professor of Department of Psychology at National Cheng Kung University. He received his PhD in Psychology in 2009 from National Taiwan University. He is specialized at mathematical psychology and cognitive psychology. His research has resulted in great theoretical and practical implications. Due to his excellent academic achievements, he was awarded to win the young investigator award from Academia Sinica, the Outstanding Young Persons award (Science and Technology Research Development category), and Ta-You Wu Memorial Award in humanity and Social Science from National Science Council, Taiwan.
Prof. Yang was also selected as the fellow of Psychonomic Society. It is also worth noting that one of his published papers was awarded as the 2020 R. Duncan Luce Journal of Mathematical Psychology Outstanding Paper Award by the Society for Mathematical Psychology. This again shows his quality research and significant contribution to the Systems Factorial Technology and Decision-making literature.
Dr. Ramkumar Kunka Mohanram
Dr. Ramkumar Kunka Mohanram
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Bio
Bio
Dr. Ramkumar is a Professor of Biotechnology at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India. He received his doctoral degree from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India, where he was trained in experimental diabetes, particularly pancreatic β-cell apoptosis. He expanded his training into the cellular pathophysiology of diabetes during his post-doctoral fellowship at the Chonbuk National University Medical School, Republic of Korea. Further he developed molecular imaging methods to study the protective molecular pathways for improving pancreatic β-cell function in diabetes during his research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2010 at SRM University and promoted to Full Professor in 2021.
His research interests span diabetes research, particularly cellular signaling and potential new treatment targets for the management of diabetes. Much of his work has been on understanding the transcription factors involved in redox signaling associated with diabetes and its complications. He has developed a high throughput cell-based assay for screening signaling molecules involved in protecting pancreatic β-cells and endothelial cells. He has also investigated the epigenetic regulation of Nrf2 and mediators involved in angiogenesis and related pathways in diabetic foot ulcers. In addition, he has made several contributions to the cellular signaling network in diabetes and has developed a model system to study the effect of signaling modulators on the cross-talk between endothelial cells and pancreatic β-cells.
He has over 200 scholarly contributions to his, including 100 peer-reviewed research papers. He is the recipient of research grants from several Government agencies, including the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), in addition to institutional funding. He has received various awards, including Young Scientist Fellow from the Department of Science and Technology.
Recently, he has also initiated research on the role of Vitamin D resistance genes in the progression of Diabetes and its complications.
Dr. Thandavarayan Maiyalagan
Dr. Thandavarayan Maiyalagan
Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Bio
Bio
Dr. Thandavarayan Maiyalagan received his Ph.D in Physical chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and completed postdoctoral programs at the Newcastle University (UK), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and at the University of Texas, Austin (USA). Presently he is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India. His main research interests focus on design and development of electrode nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications, particularly fuel cells, supercapacitors, and batteries. His research and collaborations have resulted in 200 papers in peer reviewed publications (with 9400 citations and an H-index of 43) and edited a fuel cell book in Wiley. He received SIR C.V. RAMAN SCIENTIST AWARD 2019”, in Science and Technology from St. Peter’s Institute of Higher Education and Research and Young Scientist Awards for the year 2017 from Academy of Sciences, Chennai. He has been invited to present his work at various international and national meetings. He has been listed in the top 2% world scientist with ranking of 769 in the field of Energy by Stanford University.
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