Is Professor of Genetic Medicine and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2005. He received his PhD in immunology from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Paris. He then did four years of postdoctoral training at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), earned his DSc (Habilitation) in Biological Sciences, and worked as Chargé de Recherches at INSERM in France. Before moving to Weill Cornell, he was Professor of Immunology and Human Genetics and head of the ImmunoOncology Laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir in Tunisia. From 2010 to 2017, he served as Assistant Dean of Foundational Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. He has published more than 230 papers, edited books. He served on the advisory board of The Lancet Oncology and is currently Senior Editor at the Journal of Translational Medicine. He has led research training programs at Cornell, Paris, and Monastir universities, mentoring many students, postdocs, and junior faculty. He has played a major role in precision medicine, leading large international consortia in precision oncology. He is a member of HUGO, the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies advisory board in D

Arukwe is a professor of environmental toxicology at the Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim and European registered toxicologist and an inductee of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His experience and research has addressed and still addresses issues of impact/risk assessment, the functional and regulatory aspects of differentially expressed genes, proteins and enzymes, and the general stress of contaminants, including endocrine modulators in wildlife species and fish reproductive physiologyand how quantifiable variables of climate change affect contaminant effects and dynamics in the environment. Hereceived his doctor of science (D.Sc) degree from the university of Bergen in 1998, and has since then worked in the USA and Canada in different academic and administrative capacities. He was a member of Scientific Steering Committee and panel member on Contaminants for Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (appointed by the health minister). Hewas previously a consultant for the United Nations University – International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) on a self-initiated project on environmental biomonitoring programme in Nigeria and capacity development for local scientists to sustain the monitoring. Prof. Arukwe currently chairs the National committee on professor promotion in Biology, and a board member of the Nansen Foundation and the associated fundsof the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Heis extensively involved in several capacity building projects in Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa and Vietnam. Hehave been/isstill project and proposal reviewer for several national and multi-national funding agencies.