Executive Committee

President

Professor Sarah Shigdar (2016-
School of Medicine, Faculty of Health

Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria
Australia

Secretary

Professor Maureen McKeague
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Faculty of Medicine
McGill University
Canada

Managing Director

Dr Muhammad Sohail
LPMHealthcare
Oxford, UK

Directors

Professor Said Ismail (President 2014-2016)
Head of Genomics
Qatar Foundation, Doha
Qatar

Professor Dr Beatrix Suess
Synthetic Genetic Circuits
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Germany

Professor Dr Günter Mayer
Life and Medical Sciences (LIMES)- Institute
University of Bonn, Bonn
Germany

Professor Philip E Johnson
Department of Chemistry
York University
Toronto, ON
Canada

Professor Marit Nilsen-Hamilton
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory U.S. DOE
Ames, IA, USA

Dr Marcus Menger
Group Manager
Functional Nucleic Acids – Aptamers
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI)
Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses (IZI-BB), Potsdam
Germany

Professor Victoria Calzada
Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares
Facultad de Ciencias-UdelaR
Montevideo
Uruguay

Dr David Porciani
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
University of Missouri-Columbia
Bond Life Sciences Center,
Columbia, MO, USA