Sotirios Koutsopoulos, Ph.D. is a Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer. He has held senior level positions in industry (Pfizer, i2o Tx, etc.), academia (MIT, UPenn, etc.), and as an advisor for biotech and consulting firms. He has authored more than 60 research papers, reviews, editorials, book chapters, and patents. He is on the Editorial Board of Cells, PLoS ONE, and Current Proteomics. Dr. Koutsopoulos has worked for more than 20 years on designer peptides with diverse applications in tissue engineering, tissue regeneration, drug delivery, biotechnology (for the stabilization of membrane proteins), bioengineering (for the development of nanoelectronic devices), and immunomodulatory peptides, and more recently, on the formulation and delivery of a variety of pharmaceutical compounds including peptides.His background in chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and biology and his expertise in the design and formulation of novel peptide sequences provide him with a broad overview of peptide research and allow him to identify scientific avenues which will shape the future of health sciences

• 1. Structure, chemistry, and properties of peptides2. Synthesis of naturally and rationally designed peptides3. Biologically active peptides4. Antimicrobial peptides5. Peptides for biopharmaceutical applications6. Peptide nutraceuticals7. Peptides in immunoengineering8. Peptide based vaccines9. Cell-penetrating peptides10. Tumor-penetrating peptides11. Antigenic peptides12. Self-assembling peptides in biomedical engineering13. Applications of ultra-short self-assembling peptides14. Peptides in regenerative medicine applications15. Peptide-based systems for drug delivery16. Peptides in medical technology and imaging17. Peptide surfactants in membrane protein purification and stabilization18. Peptide phage display libraries19. Catalysis by peptides20. Peptide biomimicry in nanotechnology21. Peptides for the construction of nanostructured materials22. Peptide-based nanowires for nanoelectronics23. Peptide nanosensors