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Carla Cruz is an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Coordinator of the Biopharmaceuticals and Biomaterials group at CICS-UBI (Health Sciences Research Center) and Member of the Executive Board of CICS-UBI. She is the Coordinator of PTNMR and International Doctoral Program in NMR at UBI. She has published >85 papers in international journals, 3 Patents (105419, 107033, 117276) and over 150 conference presentations. She is the group leader of the G-quadruplex (G4) team (https://gquadruplex.wixsite.com/ccruz) composed by 1 post-doc, 7 PhD and 2 MSc students, having supervised to completion 2 post-docs, 2 PhD, 37 MSc and 26 BSc students, plus 14 other students with research grants. She is/was the Principal Investigator of 15 national/international projects and grants and a member of 6 other funded projects.  Her research topics are focused on DNA/RNA G-quadruplex aptamers, G-quadruplex ligands development, synthesis and biophysical characterization of aptamer-based nanoparticles, and preclinical evaluation of their effects.

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S. G. Srivatsan received his master’s degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1995 and Ph. D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Sandeep Verma. He was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Michael Famulok at University of
Bonn, Germany, where he developed catalytic RNAs and pharmacophores that target protein-RNA complexes and their enzyme activity. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Yitzhak Tor group as a postdoctoral fellow in University of California, San Diego. He joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune in November 2008. He is currently a full professor at IISER Pune. He received the CDRI AWARDS–2019 for Excellence in Drug Research, Chemical Research Society of India Bronze medal (2020), National Prize for Research on Chemistry of Peptides and Nucleic Acids (sponsored by Professor CNR Rao Education Foundation) and Sun Pharma Research Award 2020. He also serves as an Editorial Advisory Board member of ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry. His research interests lie in the area of nucleic acid chemistry and biophysics, particularly in the development of nucleoside probes for studying nucleic acid structure and function, nucleoside-based self-assemblies, and nucleic acid labeling and imaging tools.

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Dr. Ling Peng is currently a research director in the Interdisciplinary Center on Nanoscience in Marseille (CINaM) at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in France. She has been working actively at the interface of chemistry and biology, and in particular, developing functional dendrimers for biomedical applications. She has established bio-inspired structurally flexible dendrimers for nucleic acid delivery. Recently, she has inaugurated the concept of self-assembling supramolecular dendrimers, and applied this concept to deliver various natural product drugs, nucleic acid therapeutics and imaging agents for cancer treatment. Her research team has been labelled by La Ligue Contre Le Cancer in France since 2016.
Dr. Ling PENG was awarded with the Prize of Dr & Mme Henri Labbé of the French Academy of Sciences in 2017 and the Distinguished Member of French Chemical Society in 2020.

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