Satish Chandra, PhD

Dr Satish Chandra-Nair is the Research Director and Head for Clinical Research at Tawam Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine International Affiliate, and Clinical Assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain in the UAE. He has served as a faculty member both at University of Cincinnati and University of Nebraska and later as a member of senior management for pharmaceutical companies in the USA. He is a primary inventor (Immunophilin) and primary investigator and has published over 40 international peer reviewed scientific papers and presented significant number of abstracts at conferences.  He chaired the Scientific  Committee of the SEHA Research Conference from 2009 to 2011.

He has been rewarded with professional achievement awards such as the Union of International Cancer Control, Japanese Cancer Foundation, Society for Cell Differentiation young investigator award, and has been the invited reviewer for the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation breast cancer grants.  Satish was also invited to be a visiting reviewer for the IRB at Johns Hopkins Medicine Hospital in Baltimore, USA (2010).  Additionally, he the reviewer of the Journal of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics and Chief-Co-Editor; International Journal of Clinical Trials and Clinical Research USA. He has chaired several sessions and delivered lectures on Molecular drug discovery, Signaling pathways, Receptors and small molecule targets, Clinical Trials etc; very recently he was invited to speak at the prestigious “Evolution Summit 2011” for Clinical Trial and Pharmaceutical Leaders in Montreux, Switzerland  (2011).  He is also the Chair of the Gulf Cooperation Council Chapter for the ACRP (USA) and board member of MECRA and the Vice Chair of the Al Ain Medical District Human Research Ethics Committee. He is the only recipient, outside the USA, of the prestigious “Advancing Awareness in Global Clinical Research- Leadership award” for 2012 from the Association of Clinical Research, Virginia, USA. This award recognizes professional achievements in the clinical research and medicine.