Prof. Aizhong Liu, has graduated from Hunan Medical University in 1987. He has received his professional doctorate of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2005. During 2005-2008 he pursued his post doctoral research in Queen’s University, Canada. Affiliations: He is serving as the chairman of Community Health Management Committee and standing Professional Committee of Epidemiology in Hunan Province. He is also an Executive Director in Hunan Province Health Management Association and Hunan Province Children’s Health management committee. He also holds the privilege as Vice-chairman for Hunan Province Clinical epidemiology and evidence based medicine professional committee. He has also served as National Occupational Skill Testing assessor of Health management division. He is also the Deputy Editor of “U.S Chinese Journal of Lymphology and Oncology”, “Psychiatry research "," Chinese Journal of Epidemiology "," Evaluation expert - South University "(Medical Sciences), Communication Editorial -" China Epidemiology ",Editorial Board Member -" Journal of Nanchang University (Medical Sciences) "," Chinese medicine "," Modern Medicine "and" Chinese Journal of Clinical meta "

Dr. Liu’s research interests are environmental epidemiology, injury epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, comprehensive assessment of treatment outcomes, and the utilization of advanced analytic tools (e.g., Markov models, Kaplan-Meier method, Log-rank test, COX regression models, and TOPSIS method) for complex population health databases.

Dr. Verma is Chief of the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program's (EGRP) Methods and Technologies Branch (MTB), and oversees its research portfolio and initiatives that focus on methods to address epidemiologic data collection, study design and analysis, and to modify technological approaches developed in the context of other research endeavors for use as biomarkers and methods to understand cancer susceptibility. He is responsible for stimulating EGRP-funded research on epigenetic approaches in cancer epidemiology and has been instrumental in developing epigenetics research for NIH as a whole. Dr. Verma helped to develop a Request for Applications (RFA) on Environmental Influences on Epigenetics with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and represents the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), in NIH's Roadmap Initiative on EpigeneticsExternal Web Site Policy. He helped develop an RFA on Comparative Systems Genetics of Cancer with NCI's Division of Cancer Biology (DCB), and is known within the extramural research community as an EGRP Program Director for Program Announcements (PAs) on Small Grants for Cancer Epidemiology and Pilot Studies in Pancreatic Cancer. He also organized a workshop to explore developing a concept for a research initiative on mitochondrial DNA and cancer epidemiology. Dr. Verma was, and continues to be, a co-Program Director for initiatives in gene-environment interactions in cancer etiology, including the Breast and Prostate Cancer and Hormone-Related Variants Cohort Consortium (BPC3), which is a collaborative project to pool data and biospecimens from a group of large prospective cancer epidemiology cohorts. Dr. Verma joined EGRP as a Program Director in 2004. In 2005, he was appointed Acting Chief of EGRP's former Analytic Epidemiology Research Branch (AERB). When EGRP reorganized in 2007, he was appointed Acting Chief of MTB and of the Host Susceptibility Factors Branch (HSFB), for which he served as Acting Chief through 2008. Before joining EGRP, he was a Program Director in NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), where he worked in the areas of biomarkers, early detection, risk assessment, and prevention. He also was Coordinator of DCP's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. He was on the faculty in the Biochemistry Department of Georgetown University before joining NIH.

Biomarkers,Epigenetics,Epidemiology Technologies Proteomics,MicroRNA,Methylation,Mitochondria Nanotechnology,Risk Assessment,Susceptibility Factors,Systems Genetics,Metabolomics

Dr Diana Anderson has published over 400 papers; edited/authored 8 books; series editor for “Current Toxicology” J Wiley and Sons and “Issues in Toxicology” Royal Society of Chemistry; editor of 4 special issues in Mutation Research, 1 of Enviromental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 3 of Teratogenesis, Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis and part of one for Mutagenesis.

cancer, oxygen radicals, human biomonitoring, unbalanced precursor pools, dietary imbalance, male-mediated developmental defects, nanotoxicology, general toxicology

Latent variable analysis, Longitudinal data analysis, Twin and family study, Behavior genetics, Substance abuse research, Personality, Suicidality, Health behaviors, and Psychiatric epidemiology

Dr. Lynn M. Jamieson is a Full Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies at Indiana University. She has served as both Chair of the Department for seven years, as Assistant Chair for 6 years and is formerly Coordinator and Professor in the Recreation Administration Program at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. In addition to academic appointments, Dr. Jamieson has served in administrative capacities in three park and recreation departments: Corpus Christi, Texas, San Diego, California and Johnson County, Kansas. She is co-author of five texts and author of numerous articles and text chapters in the area of recreational sports, commercial recreation, management and tourism. In the area of research and evaluation, Dr. Jamieson has emphasized management, curriculum development in recreational sports, sport violence, visitor behavior, and youth development as it pertains to causal factors and outcomes. Over 60 articles and 70 presentations have been delivered in her areas of expertise. She is a Certified Recreational Sports Specialist (CRSS), a Certified Park and Recreation Professional (CPRP), and a member of several professional organizations that represent various aspects of the leisure industry. More recently, she has conducted lectures and research presentations in China, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Scotland, Turkey, England, Canada, Tanzania, the United States, and Australia on the topics of sport curriculum, sport and leisure policy, sport and leisure management, and epidemiological factors in violence that occurs in sport, tourism, and leisure settings. Since 1986, Dr. Jamieson has been co-owner of the consulting firm Visions – a leisure and tourism planning company.

Research methods, tourism collateral materials, causal factors in sport and leisure violence, cross-cultural study of sport and leisure governmental policy, role of parks in a healthy lifestyle

Lequan Min, is currently a Professor with Mathematics and Physics School, and the PHD supervisor with the Automation School at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.He has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific journal and conference papers.

His current research interests are modeling and simulations of complex systems, in particularly virus infections and epidemic spreading.

Professor Arjumand Warsy, completed her Ph.D from Nottingham University, UK, at the age of 26 years. She worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at Birmingham University, UK for two years and in 1977 joined the Department of Biochemistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, where she is working as a professor for the last 23 years. She has published over 219 papers in National and International Journals. She is a member of different committee and has received the Best Staff from the President of KSU. Her research interest is in the study of molecular basis of genetic diseases

Her research interest is in the study of molecular basis of genetic disease.

Dr. Kaushik Chattopadhyay is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. He has completed (A) Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills, St. George’s Medical School, UK (B) European Master in Public Health, a dual degree sponsored by the European Commission (Erasmus Mundus): Master of Public Health (Distinction), The University of Sheffield, UK and MSc Public Health (Health Economics and Financial Management), Jagiellonian University, Poland (C) Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery, University of Calcutta, India. He has also worked in other renowned academic institutes such as King’s College London and St. George’s Medical School, UK.

Epidemiology and clinical trials, traditional therapies, non-communicable diseases, environmental and occupational health

Blum received his B.S. in pharmacy from Columbia University in 1961, his M.S. in medical science in 1965 from the New Jersey College of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1968 from the New York Medical College. Blum completed post-doctorate research in psychopharmacology at the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education where Irving Geller was his mentor. He also completed a fellowship in pharmacogenetics under Gerald McClearn at the University of Colorado College of Pharmacy (Boulder) in 1977. Blum's most important work was a 1990 study he co-led with Ernest Noble, the former director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, that correlated the dopamine D2 Receptor Taq 1 allele with alcoholism. This study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Blum expanded his research of genes involved in brain reward circuitry. By the early 1980s there were many suggestions that alcoholism had genetic antecedents and a high heritability. This research stimulated further studies of gene associations. Though the press has called his finding the "alcoholic gene," Blum believed his work to be of broader scope, calling this gene a "reward gene" which covers other addictive behaviors including drug addiction, smoking, overeating, and pathological gambling.

Neuropsychiatry and Genetics, Nutritional Genetics, and Pharmacogenetics

Statistical genetics,Statistical models for genomic imprinting, Large scale genome-wide association study,statistical genomics,Longitudinal data analysis, Functional data analysis, Mixture model,Statistical applications in biological sciences