Dr. Nagaraju GP is a faculty member at the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine. He completed his MS and his Ph.D., both in biotechnology, at Sri Venkateswara University, India. His research chiefly focuses on translational projects related to gastrointestinal malignancies. He has published over 60 research articles in highly reputed international journals and has presented more than 50 abstracts at various national and International conferences. He has also served as an editorial board member of several internationally recognized academic journals. He is an associate member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics research program at Winship Cancer Institute. He is a member of the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin in America (ASIOA), the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), the Science Advisory Board, the RNA Society and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
Dr. Bramhachari PV is presently a member of Faculty and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Krishna University, India. His current research work largely focuses on basic and translational cancer research. He completed his Ph.D. at Goa University, India and began his professional career as a postdoctoral scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, before working at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia. He has published more than 60 research articles in several prestigious peer-reviewed journals and presented 40 abstracts at various national and international conferences. He has successfully completed two major research projects, is a member of various prestigious scientific societies, and has served as an editorial board member and reviewer for several peer-reviewed international journals. As a leading researcher in the field of cancer biology, he is currently investigating the role of various transcriptional factors in the identification of novel cancer therapies for GI cancers.