Prof. F. Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany (Lasker Award laureate and Shaw Prize recipient)

Topic: Molecular chaperones for protein folding and cellular health

Website: https://www.biochem.mpg.de/hartl 

Prof. Kwok-Yung Yuen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Future Science Prize laureate)

Topic: Understanding coronaviruses to prepare for the next pandemic

Website: https://hkumicro.hku.hk/university-staff/professor-yuen-kwok-yung/

Prof. Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China (Future Science Prize laureate)

Topic: Gasdermin-mediated pyroptosis: from antibacterial to antitumor immunity

Website: http://www.nibs.ac.cn/en/yjsjyimgshow.php?cid=5&sid=6&id=777

Prof. Chuxia Deng, Macau University, Macau

Topic: Precision breast cancer therapy

Website: https://fhs.um.edu.mo/zh-hant/staff/chuxia-deng/ 

Prof. Susan R. Weiss, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Topic: Coronavirus activation and antagonism of interferon signaling pathways

Website: https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p11346  

Prof. Mingjie Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Topic: Phase separation in synapses

Website: https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/faculties/zhangmingjie.html 

Prof. Stanley Perlman, University of Iowa, USA

Topic: Long term sequelae in SARS-CoV-2-infected mice and humans

Website: https://microbiology.medicine.uiowa.edu/profile/stanley-perlman 

Prof. Jae Bum Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea

Topic: Adipose tissue plasticity and energy homeostasis

Website: https://biosci.snu.ac.kr/en/people/faculty?mode=view&profidx=10

Prof. Baoliang Song, Vice President, Wuhan University, China

Topic: Nutritional regulation of cholesterol metabolism

Website: https://bio.whu.edu.cn/info/1287/5258.htm 

Prof. Shan-Lu Liu, Ohio State University, USA

Topic: Mechanism and regulation of viral entry and membrane fusion

Website: https://vet.osu.edu/people/shan-lu-liu 

Prof. Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China

Topic: Circular RNAs: Biogenesis, characterization and therapeutic applications

Website:  http://english.cemcs.cas.cn/sourcedb/ywrck/pi/202311/t20231101_492035.html

Prof. Arun Kumar Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Topic: Structure, function, and modulation of G protein-coupled receptors

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/arun-k-shukla 

Prof. Niranjan Nagarajan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Topic: Tackling the global spread of antimicrobial resistance using genome-resolved metagenomics and AI

Website: https://www.a-star.edu.sg/gis/our-people/faculty-staff/members/niranjan-nagarajan 

Prof. Masayuki Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan

Topic: The KEAP1-NRF2 pathway and neurodegenerative diseases

Website: http://www.nm-gcoe.med.tohoku.ac.jp/english/investigators/yamamoto/index.html   

Prof. Lisa Ng, A*STAR, Singapore

Topic: Chikungunya virus pathogenesis and vaccine development

Website: https://www.a-star.edu.sg/idlabs/people/our-investigators/lisa-ng

Prof. Si Ming Man, Australian National University, Australia

Topic: Molecular mechanisms and regulation of inflammasome activation and signalling

Website: https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/si-ming-man/ 

Prof. Julia Horsfield, University of Otago, New Zealand

Topic: The cohesin complex balances cell fate and cell proliferation in zebrafish development

Website: https://www.otago.ac.nz/zebrafish/research/juliahorsfield 

Prof. Mien-Chie Hung, China Medical University, Taiwan

Topic: Marker-guided precision cancer therapy

Website:  https://webap.cmu.edu.tw/TchEportfolio/index_1/mhung 

Professor Noboru Mizushima, University of Tokyo, Japan 

Topic: Molecular mechanism of autophagy

Website:  https://molbiolut.jp/en/member/%E6%B0%B4%E5%B3%B6%E3%80%80%E6%98%87/ 

Professor Etsuo Susaki, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan 

Topic: Regulatory mechanisms of multicellular system

Website:  https://en.juntendo.ac.jp/research/researcher-profiles/susaki_etsuo.html