BioAlliance

	Pushpa M. Bhargava Ph.D., D.Sc., Hyderabad, India Founder/Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad More than 70 major national and international honours and awards, including Padma Bhushan, Legion d’Honneur from the President of France, Fellow of World Academy of Art and Science and Life Fellowship, Clare Hall, Cambridge Chairman of three life science companies (Avon Organics, Shanta Biotechnologies and Avestha Gengrain)

	Dennis A. Carson, M.D., Ph.D., San Diego, Ca. USA Professor of Medicine and Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute, U.C. San Diego, with more than 80 researchers in his team Author of 25 issued U.S. patents, including initial patents for the formation of 3 life science companies Author/coauthor of more than 400 scientific publications

	Albert Wai-Kit Chan Ph.D., J.D., Whitestone, NY, USA Principal of the Albert Wai-Kit Chan Law firm Founder, United States-China Law Society President, United States-China Intellectual Property Institute Adjunct Professor of Law, City University of New York Law School Former CEO of 3 US-based biotech companies

	Carlo M. Croce M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. USA Former Associate Director, The Wistar Instutute of Anatomy and Biology Director Kimmel Cancer Institute and Kimmel Cancer Center, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Member National Academy of Sciences Author/Coauthor of more than 460 peer reviewed publications

	Julian Gresser, J.D., Tokyo, Japan International attorney and President, JG Enterprises; expert on strategic alliances in Japan Former Visiting Professor at MIT and Beijing University Former Senior Consultant to the US State Department, The World Bank, The Prime Minister's Office of Japan, The People's Republic of China, and The European Commission

	Thomas J. Kipps, M.D., Ph.D., San Diego, Ca. USA Head of the Hematology and Oncology Division, U.C. San Diego, California Associate Director UC San Diego Gene Therapy Program Author/Coauthor of more than 150 peer reviewed scientific publications

	Martin Lotz, M.D., La Jolla, Ca. USA Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, and Head of the Arthritis Resesarch Division, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California Author/Coauthor of more than 140 peer reviewed scientific publications

	Friedrich Luft, M.D., Berlin, Germany Professor of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension, at the Franz Volhard Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Chief of Internal Medicine, First Medical Clinic, Klinikum Buch, Berlin Author/Coauthor of more than 340 peer reviewed scientific publications

	Jacques Martin, MBA, Lyon, France Founder and CEO of PartEurop S.A.; former CEO of Mérieux, France, and Rhone Poulenc Pharma, Germany Board Member and Chairman of several organisations, e.g. global fund for childrens' vaccines, AIDS vaccine initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates childrens' vaccine programme

	Rainer Neumann, PhD, Cologne, Germany Clinical projectleader at Bayer Vital GmbH Former senior staff scientist of central research Professor and lecturer for clinical and experimental virology at the medical department of the University of Cologne

	Stephen Ng, M.D., Hong Kong President, Asia Molecular Diagnostics Limited and Compuscreen Medical Diagnostics Centre, Hong Kong Adj. Associate Professor, Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong Special lecturer on Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Columbia University

	H.-D. Schlumberger, MD, PhD Former head of the Institute for Immunology and Oncology at Bayer AG Project leader for AIDS-research cooperation (Bayer + Hoechst) WISTAR-Institute, Philadelphia Max-Planck-Institute for virus research

	Rolf Zinkernagel, Ph.D. Professor, University of Zurich Head of Institute of Experimental Immunology Department of Pathology, University Hospital Zurich Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1996