Maria Rescigno is full professor, vice-rector and delegate to research at Humanitas University and group leader at Humanitas Research hospital in Milan. She graduated in Biology in the University of Milan and received her PhD in Pharmacology and toxicology. She served as a group leader at the European Institute of Oncology, a professor at the University of Milan, and a visiting professor at the University of Oslo. She was post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, and earned her PhD from the CNR in Milan.

Since 2013, Daniel Pinschewer serves as a full professor of Virology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.  After graduating from the University of Zurich medical school in the year 2000 he trained as postdoctoral fellow in molecular virology at The Scripps Research Center, and in immunology at the University of Zurich. Prior to his current appointment he was an associate professor of immunology at the University of Geneva (2007-2013).