Keiko Ozato, Ph.D.

USA
National Institutes of Health

Dr. Ozato received her Ph.D. at Kyoto University and trained in the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Johns Hopkins University and National Cancer Institute. Her laboratory was created in 1981 at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and she was tenured in 1986. She has published more than 250 original research papers and 40 review articles.Dr. Ozato is a Professor in University of Maryland College Park and has served as President of International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research. She is on the Editorial Board of Molecular and Cell Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, and Immunogenetics and teaches in several immunology classes inthe NIH graduate course.

Ernest C. Borden, M.D.

USA
The Cleveland Clinic

Dr. Borden was Director of the Center for Cancer Drug Discovery and Development at The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center and Lerner Research Institute, with a joint appointment in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  He was also Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Borden received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Duke University. He completed an internship at Duke, a residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral fellowship in the oncology division at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  His renowned contribution to interferon and clinical research is complemented with >300 research publications and >100 book chapters.