Executive Committee

President

Dr Sarah Shigdar (2016-
Lecturer in Medical Science
School of Medicine, Faculty of Health
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria
Australia

Managing Director

Dr Muhammad Sohail
Biochemistry Lecturer
St Hilda’s College
Cowley Place
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Secretary

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

Directors

Professor Said Ismail (President 2014-2016)
Head, Molecular Biology Research Laboratory
Medical School, University of Jordan, and
Head, Molecular Diagnostics Lab,
Jordan University Hospital
Amman, Jordan

Professor Dr Beatrix Suess
Synthetic Genetic Circuits
Technical University of Darmstadt
03 064 Schnittspahnstraße 1064287
Darmstadt
Germany

Professor Dr Ulrich Hahn
University of Hamburg
Department Chemistry
Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6
Hamburg, Germany

Dr Vittorio de Franciscis
Research Director
CNR Institute of Experimental Endocrinology
and Oncology
Naples
Italy

Professor Dr Günter Mayer
Life and Medical Sciences (LIMES)- Institute
University of Bonn
Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1
Bonn
Germany

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

Editors and Reviewers

Dr David Bunka
Chief Technical Officer
The Aptamer Group
Bio Centre, Innovation Way
Heslington
United Kingdom

Professor Wei Duan
School of Medicine
Faculty of Health
Deakin University
Waurn Ponds, Victoria
Australia

Dr Harleen Kaur
Astrazeneca
One Medimmune Way
Germantown, USA

Professor Ciara O’Sullivan
ICREA Research Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili,
Avinguda Països Catalans,
Spain

Professor Nicola Stonehouse
Professor of Molecular Virology
Faculty of Biological Sciences
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Past Committee Members

Dr Jane Alder (Editor/Reviewer)
Lecturer in Pharmacology
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
University of Central Lancashire
United Kingdom

Dr Frederic Duconge (Editor/Reviewer)
CEA, Aptamers & Molecular Imaging
Life Science Division
Institute for Biomedical Imaging,
INSERM
France

Dr Lisa Shaw (Editor/Reviewer)
Maudland Building
University of Central Lancashire
PR1 2HE
United Kingdom

Dr Arron Tolley (Director)
The Aptamer Group
Bio Centre
Innovation Way
Heslington
United Kingdom

Dr Caroline Truman (Editor/Reviewer)
AstraZeneca
R&D, Innovative Medicines, Discovery Sciences
52F12 Mereside, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire
United Kingdom

Mr David Porciani (Editor/Reviewer)
NEST
Scuola Normale Superiore and
Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR
Pisa, Italy

Dr Thomas Schubert (Editor/Reviewer)
CEO, 2bind GmbH
Molecular Interaction Services
Josef Engert Str. 13
Regensburg
Germany