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Fymat, Alain L.: - ALAIN L. FYMAT is a medical-physical scientist and an educator. He was educated at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the current President/CEO and Institute Professor at the International Institute of Medicine & Science with a previous appointment as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Professor at the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine. He was formerly Professor of Radiology, Radiological Sciences, Radiation Medicine (Oncology), Critical Care Medicine, and Physics at several U.S. and European Universities. Previously, he was Deputy Director (Western Region) of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (Office of Research Oversight), Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, and for a time Acting Chair of Radiology at its Loma Linda, California Medical Center. He has extensively published ( 475 scholarly publications including patents, books & monographs, book chapters, refereed articles). As invited/keynote speaker and member of scientific organizing committees of international congresses and symposia, he has lectured extensively in the USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has been the recipient of numerous research grants from government, academia and private industry, and has consulted extensively with these entities. He is a Board member of several institutions and Health Advisor of the American Heart & Stroke Association (Coachella Valley Division, California). He is Editor-in-Chief, Honorable Editor or Editor of numerous medical-scientific Journals to which he contributes regularly. He is also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the European Union Academy of Sciences, and a reviewer for the prestigious UNESCO Newton Prize, United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO. Dr. Fymat's current research interests lie at the interface between science and medicine, particularly nanomedicine, nanobiotechnology, cancer/oncology, molecular/personal/precision medicine, human genetics/epigenetics/ecogenetics, pharmacology and pharmacogenomics. His most recent publications deal with nanotechnology and cancer, nanochemotherapy, nanoneurology, natural and synthetic immunotherapy, drug delivery across the brain-protective barriers, and neurodegenerative disorders (including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, dementia, and epilepsy).