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David A Dawson is an endocannabinoid specialist, medical cannabis researcher, and educator. He currently acts in the position of Chief Science Officer for Aeon Bio Health and is involved in research, caring for patients, and preparing to defend his Ph.D. dissertation. He is also the author of multiple peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, the textbook Medical Cannabis: The Definitive Guide and the novel Pummeled to Death by Hamburger.

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Dr. Jufan Zhang received his PhD degree in 2009 from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. After working in the industry for years, he returned to the academia as the postdoctoral fellow, and then hosted several major funding as the PI. He joined the Centre of Micro/Nano Manufacturing Technology, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2017, and now is working as the lecturer/assistant professor in UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. His research interests mainly include the design and manufacturing of medical devices and bioimplants, micro/Nano functional structures, geometrical waveguide design and manufacturing, etc.

Dr Leandro Castellano obtained his BSc in Biology at the University of Salento, Italy. He then moved to Rome at the University “La Sapienza” where he completed a PhD in Human Biology and Genetics (2003-2007) working during the first year on the role of Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) in the Circadian Rhythm of the filamentous fungus Neurospora Crassa and later, on the role of microRNAs in human Cell Cycle and in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL). He moved to Imperial College London in 2007 where he worked as a Research Associate focusing on the role of microRNAs in epithelial cancers. From 2011 he was appointed as Team Leader at the Division of Surgery and cancer, at Imperial, where he directly supervised several PhD students, Research Associates and Research Assistants. During these years Dr Castellano research interests expanded from microRNAs to the role of various classes of short and long non-coding RNAs in epithelial cancer development and progression. He is the Head of Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine and a Reader (Associate Professor) in RNA Biology at the University of Sussex and holds an honorary position at Imperial College London as visiting Reader. He is also the Designated Individual (DI) under the Human Tissue Act at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex. He is a fellow of the higher education academy (FHEA).