14^th World Congress on Pharmacology and Toxicology September 11-12, 2019 Singapore

Dr. Ashour has obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) at Omaha, NE, USA in 2006 and performed postdoctoral studies at UNMC. During his stay at USA, Dr. Ashour received numerous awards, including the prestigious Harris Award for Excellence and Outstanding Work in Cancer Research. He was and still collaborating with top-notch scientists, including Dr. Arun Rishi from Wayne State University at Detroit, MI, USA. He has published 60 research papers in reputed journals plus 10 submitted/in preparation manuscripts.

Pharmacology

After completion of his postdoctoral training at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Gautam Sethi joined Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2008 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. The focus of his research over the past few years has been to elucidate the mechanism (s) of activation of oncogenic transcription factors such as NF-kB/STAT3 by carcinogens and inflammatory agents and the identification of novel inhibitors of these proteins for prevention of and therapy for cancer. The findings of his research work have so far resulted in more than two hundred scientific publications in high impact factor peer reviewed journals (with h index = 71) and several international awards. He currently serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS, editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Pharmacological Research, BMC Cancer, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Oncology, Journal of Natural Products in Cancer Prevention and Therapy, and ad-hoc reviewer for several other prestigious international journals.

Pharmacology