Scientific Committee Members

Danik Martirosyan, PhD, Conference Chairman and Main Organizer, President, Functional Food Center (FFC), Dallas, TX, USA, Functional Food Institute, San Diego, California, USA

Mkrtich Avagyan, MD, Professor, Head, Department Alternative Medicine, Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi; Cief, Center of Traditional and Alternative Medicine "AltMed", Center of Surgery, Yerevan, Armenia; Representative of FFC in Yerevan, Armenia

Mikio Nishizawa, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Tovit Rosenzweig, PhD, Departments of Molecular Biology and Nutritional Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Srinivas Nammi, PhD, School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

María Dolores del Castillo, PhD, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Madrid, Spain

Blanca Hernandez Ledesma, PhD, Department of Bioactivity and Food Analysis, Spanish National Research Council (Csic-Uam) Faculty, Research Institute of Food Science (Cial), Madrid, Spain

Mona Boaz, PhD, Professor, Chair, Department of Nutrition Sciences Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Yasuhito Shirai, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Department of Agrobioscience, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Hua-Feng Zhang, PhD, Associate professor, College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, Director of International Joint Research Center of Shaanxi Province for Food and Health Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China

Jun Nishihira, MD, PhD, Health Information Science Center, Hokkaido Information University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Naresh Singh Redhu, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA, United States

Debasis Bagchi, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, United States

Baojun Xu, PhD, Professor, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China

Jin-Rong Zhou, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Nutrition and Metabolism Laboratory, Boston, MA, United States

Garth Nicolson, PhD, Research Professor of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, S. Laguna Beach, CA, United States