George P. Chrousos, MD, ScD born in Patras, Greece, is a Greek-American pediatrician, endocrinologist, neurobiologist and one of the world's foremost medical clinical researchers. He serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece and as Director of University Research Institute of Maternal And Child Health & Precision Medicine. He currently also holds the UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care. He is one of the 250 most cited scientists internationally (ISI highly cited), included not only in the list of Clinical Medicine, but also in that of Biology and Biochemistry, and is the highest cited clinical pediatrician or endocrinologist in the world. Prof. Chrousos is intimately familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of both US and European biomedical science. He has an unwavering commitment to promote and nurture the international leadership and excellence of research in Developmental Biology, Human Growth and Development, Pediatrics, Reproductive Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Family and Disabilities Research.

Dimitrios P Vlachakis is a medical biochemist with postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral studies in the eminent fields of genetics, epigenetics, evo-devo, gwas, medicinal chemistry, pharmacophore elucidation and drug discovery. He is a passionate drug hunter. Since 2018, he leads the darkDNA group at the Genetics Laboratory at the Biotechnology Department, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology of the Agr. University of Athens. He have been elected Investigator A level in Translational Precision Medicine at the URI, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has also been appointed as Associate Professor at the Informatics Dept of kings College London. At the National Organization for Medicines (EOF) he is serving as the Vice President of the Greek HTA (Health Technology Assessment) Committee as well as the Representative of the of Greek HTA at the European Commission. Finally, he is and Executive board member of EMBnet and a member of the FontInov International Research Network. To date, he has published more than 250 original peer-reviewed articles, 10 ISBN books, 5 scientific patents and he has been on the receiving end of numerous grants and awards.