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Scientific And Organizing Committee

Functional Foods and Bioactive Compounds: Modern and Medieval Approaches

31st International Conference of FFC - 19th International Symposium of ASFFBC

September 31st - October 1st, 2023, Yerevan State University in Yerevan, Armenia, In-Person and Virtual/Live Online Event


Main Conference Organizers

        1. Danik Martirosyan, Conference co-chair, PhD, President, Functional Food Center (Dallas, TX, USA); Functional Food Institute, San Diego, CA, USA

        2. Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, Conference co-chair, PhD, Scientific Director, The Matenadaran, Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Research Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

        3. Rouben M. Aroutiounian, PhD, Professor, Conference co-chair, Head of Department of Genetics and Cytology, Faculty of Biology of Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia; Academician-Secretary of the Division of the Natural Sciences of Armenian Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

        4. Mkrtich Avagyan, MD, Head, Department of Alternative Medicine, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

 

Local Organizing Committee Members

        1. Varty Keshishian, Head of the International Relations Department, Matenadaran, Research Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

        2. Sona Baloyan, International Relations Senior specialist, Matenadaran, Research Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

        3. Ani Manukyan, International Relations specialist, Matenadaran, Research Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

        4. Meruzhan Zadayan, PhD, DVM, President, Veterinarians Without Borders, NGO; Director, MHZadayan Consulting Group (Agro-Food Business, One Health Initiative), Yerevan, Armenia

        5. Astghik Pepoyan, PhD, Professor, Head of Food Safety and Biotechnology Division, Armenian National Agrarian University , Yerevan, Armenia

        6. Davit Pipoyan, PhD, Doctor in Food Science (Unitus, Italy), Head of Informational Analytical Center for Risk Assessment of Food Chain, CENS, National Academy of Scienses, Yerevan, Armenia

        7. Karen Armeni Trchunyan, PhD, Professor, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

        8. Mkrtich Avagyan, MD, Head of Department of Alternative Medicine, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

        9. Anna Poladyan, PhD, Doctor of Science, Head of Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

International Scientific and Organizing Committee Members

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

        2. Tamara Sanikidze, PhD, Professor, Head of Department at Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

        3. Antonios Koutelidakis, PhD, Assistant Professor on Human Nutrition, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, Myrina, Lemnos, Greece

        4. Bernd Markert, PhD, Professor, Environmental Institute of Scientific Networks (EISN-Institute), Haren, Germany

        5. Petras Venskutonis, PhD, Professor, Department of Food Scinece and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

        6. Bernd Markert, PhD, Professor, Environmental Institute of Scientific Networks (EISN-Institute), Haren, Germany

        7. Beata Cizmarova, PhD, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry, Kosice, Slovakia

        8. Lidia Wadolowska, PhD, Professor, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Sloneczna, Poland

        9. Lidia Wadolowska, PhD, Professor, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Sloneczna, Poland

        10. Alexander Haslberger, PhD, Professor, Department for Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

        11. Marcello Iriti, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Milan State University, Milan, Italy

        12. Blanca Hernandez Ledesma, PhD, Department of Bioactivity and Food Analysis, Spanish National Research Council Faculty, Research Institute of Food Science, Madrid, Spain

        13. Irina Chernukha, PhD, Professor, Academician of Rassian Academy of Sciences, VM Gorbatov Federal Research Center for Food Systems of RAS, Moscow, Russia

        14. Abdalbasit Mariod, PhD, Professor, College of Science and Arts, University of Jeddah, Alkamil, Saudi Arabia

        15. Roula M Abdel-Massih, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Balamand, El-Koura, Lebanon

        16. Sedigheh Asgary, PharmD, PhD, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan, Iran

        17. Sukanta Mondal, PhD, Principal Scientist, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Karnataka, India

        18. Simone Wünschmann, PhD, Environmental Institute of Scientific Networks (EISN-Institute), Haren, Germany

        19. Andreas Tzakos, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Section of Organic Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

        20. Irakli Chkhikvishvili, PhD, Professor, Chief of Bioactive Laboratory at Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi Georgia