Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay is a full Professor at the Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine. She is currently the Director of the Sheba Pandemic preparedness Research Institute (SPRI) and the Head of the Infection Prevention & Control Unit at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.

Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay received her MD at Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (1994), an MSc in Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot (1991), and MSc in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA (2006). She has specialized in Internal Medicine (1998) and Infectious Diseases (2000) at the Sheba Medical Center.

Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay is the author of over 140 scientific publications, among them many in the top medical and scientific journals. During the COVID-19 pandemic she was a local, national, and global opinion leader in the field.

Prof. Chalmers is a leading expert in respiratory research, serving as the Asthma and Lung UK Professor of Respiratory Research at the University of Dundee since 2017. Previously, he was a Discovery Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Medicine (2015–17) and a Welcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow (2013–15) at the University of Dundee.

Prof. Chalmers started his respiratory infection research group in 2012 which is now regarded as one of the most successful and productive groups in Europe. He holds an MBChB from the University of Glasgow, a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and the European Respiratory Society.

As the current Chair of the European Bronchiectasis Registry, Chair of the Science and Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society, and the Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal, Prof. Chalmers is a prominent figure in the field. With an H-index of 93 he has published more than 450 peer reviewed papers.

Prof. Rohde is a leading figure in Respiratory Medicine with a distinguished academic and professional background. He studied medicine at Ruhr-University Bochum and Université Louis Pasteur, obtaining his Doctorate Medicine in 1999 and Habilitation Internal Medicine in 2006.

Prof. Rohde currently serves as Director of the University Thorax Center Frankfurt and as a W3-Professor of Respiratory Medicine/Allergology, at Goethe University. Previously, he held roles at Maastricht University Medical Center and the German Lung Center. His leadership in the field is further evidenced by his presidency of the 62 ^nd Congress of the German Respiratory Society in 2021.

A recipient of numerous accolades, including the ERS Yernault Lecture in 2019, Prof. Rohde has over 6368 citations and an H-index of 42, underscoring his impact on the field.