Conference chairs Carlos Lodeiro Espiño, PhD Conference Chair UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) e-mail: cle@fct.unl.pt José Luís Capelo Martínez, PhD Conference Chair UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) e-mail: jlcm@fct.unl.pt Harald Mischak, PhD Chair of Proteomics and Systems Medicine University of Glasgow William A. LaFramboise, PhD Scientific Committee University of Pittsburgh, USA