Hans Henri P. KlugeWHO Regional Director for Europe Margaritis SchinasEuropean Commission Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life Carl-Henrik HeldinProfessor in Molecular Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden Peter AngelosLinda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery University of Chicago,USA Aristeidis Moustakas Professor at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the Department ofInformation Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden Marianna ArvanitakisAssociate Head of Gastroenterology at the Erasmus Hospital, Belgium Mimis CohenProfessor, Division of Plastic, University of Illinois, USA Nicholas ChristakisSterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, USA Konstantinos ChristofidisProfessor of Physics at the University of Cyprus Basil T. DarrasJoseph J. Volpe Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, USA Costis DaskalakisProfessor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT, USA Panagiotis GiannoudisProfessor of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical School Leeds, UK Anna GrekaAssociate Professor Kidney Disease, Harvard Medical School, USA Pelagia Irene Gouma Edward Orton Jr., Chair in Ceramic Engineering Ohio State University, USA Viktor JirsaDirector of the Inserm Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes at Aix-Marseille-Université, France Nikos KyrpidesComputational Biologist Senior Scientist, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA Elisa E. KonofagouProfessor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor Radiology, Columbia University, USA Eleftherios MylonakisCharles C.J. Carpenter Professor of Infectious Disease Brown University, USA Vasilis NtziachristosDirector of Institute Biological and Medical Imaging at the Helmholtz Zentrum München,Germany Christos PapadelisFounding Director of Neuroscience Research at Cook Children’s Health Care System Vassilios Papalois Professor of Transplantation Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK George PavlakisScientist Emeritus Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute, USA George Scangos CEO and Director Vir Biotechnology Inc., USA George Sofianos CEO of SofMedica Group, Romania Constantinos Sofokleous Professor of Radiology Weill Cornell Medical College, USA Konstantinos SpaniolasProfessor of Surgery Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, USA Dimitrios Stefanidis Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA Nikos StergiopoulosProfessor of Cardiovascular Technology, EPFL Medical School, Switzerland Apostolos Tassiopoulos Professor and Chief Division of Vascular and Endovascular SurgeryInterim Chair, Department of Surgery Stony Brook Medicine, USA Stella Tsirka Professor of Pharmacological Sciences in the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at StonyBrook University, USA Patricia L. Turner Executive Director of the American College of Surgeons,University of Chicago Medicine, USA Andreas Tzakis Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, USA Demetrios VavvasAssociate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, USA George VelmahosProfessor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, USA