Functional Food Center Inc.

Functional Food Center Inc.



Functional Foods and Bioactive Compounds: Innovations in Health and Disease Prevention

35th International Conference of FFC - 23rd International Symposium of ASFFBC

Conference at Russian-Armenian University (RAU), Yerevan, Armenia on October 3rd - 5th, 2025. (In-Person and Virtual/Live Online Event)
October 5th will be only virtual presentations.

We expecting more than 5000 registered attendees (in-person and virtual) at this conference and we are welcoming representatives from over 125 countries.

Conference Committee Members

Committee Chair/Co-Chairs

  • Danik Martirosyan, Conference Chair, PhD, President, Functional Food Center (Dallas, TX, USA); Functional Food Institute, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Anna Grigoryan, Co-Chair, PhD, Department Chair, General and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Russian-Armenian (Slabvonic) University, Yerevan, Armenia

Organizing Committee Members:

  • Parkev Avetisyan, PhD, Professor, Vice-Rector for Science, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Anahit Aharonyan, Chief Manager, Institute of Biomedicine and Pharmacy, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Roksana Zakaryan, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA Yerevan, Armenia, Head of the Department of Bioengineering, Russian-Armenian University
  • Mariam Alkhazyan, Assistant to the Vice-Rector of Science, Department of Science, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Mkrtich Avagyan, MD, PhD, Chief of Medical Center of Rehabilitation, Preventive and Traditional Medicine "AltMed", Yerevan, Armenia
  • Gayane Gasparyan, PhD, Professor, Acting Director of H. Petrosyan Scientific Center of Soil Science, Melioration and Agrochemistry, ANAU, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Syuzanna Esoyan, PhD, Doctor of Agri-Food Biotechnology, Research Institute of Biology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Laura Ghalachyan, PhD, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Plant Nourishment and Productivity, G.S. Davtyan Institute of Hydroponics
    Problems, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Alexander Yengoyan, PhD, Head of the Pesticides Synthesis and Expertise Department of the "H. Petrosyan State Department of Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Reclamation", ANAU, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Gagik Santrosyan, PhD, Professor, Fruit growing and Physiology Department, Voskehat Educational and Research Center of Enology, ANAU Foundation Branch, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Hranush Melkonyan, PhD, Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia< Yerevan, Armenia
  • Ruzanna Paronikyan, PhD, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Scientific and Technological Center of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Lernik Hunanyan, PhD, Head of Laboratory of Structural Bioinformatics, RAU, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Armen Aghajanyan, PhD, Professor, Department Chair, Scientific and Production Center Armbiotechnology, NAS, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Mary Tadevosyan, Chief Specialist for Planning, Organization and Support of Research Works, RAU, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Danielyan Kristina, PhD, Senior Reseracher, H.Buniatian Institute of Biochemistry, NAS, Yerevan, Armenia.

  • Bella Babayan, PhD, Scientific and Production Center (SPC) "Armbiotechnology", NAS, Yerevan, Armenia

International Scientific Committee Members:

  • Yasuhito Shirai, Ph.D, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, KObe, Japan.
  • Marcello Iriti, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Milan State University, Milan, Italy
  • Irina Chernukha, PhD, Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), VM Gorbatov Federal Research Center for Food Systems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
  • Arsen Arakelyan, PhD, Director, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Antonios Koutelidakis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, Lemnos, Greece
  • Ashkhen Hovhannisyan, PhD, Department Chair, Medical Biochemistry and Biotechnology, RAU, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Mikio Nishizawa, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
  • Diana Andreasyan, Deputy Director of National Institute of Health of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
  • Sedigheh Asgary, PhD, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences; Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan, Iran
  • Abdalbasit Mariod, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, College of Science and Arts, University of Jeddah, Alkamil, KS
  • Sukanta Mondal, PhD, Principal Scientist, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology Adugodi, Bangalore, India
  • Danik Martirosyan, PhD, President, Functional Food Center, Dallas, TX, USA; Functional Food Institute, San Diego, CA, USA