| Kjell Petersen | University of Bergen - ELIXIR Norway | Norway |
| Gerrit Botha | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| Nicola Mulder | University of Cape Town, H3Africa | South Africa |
| Michael Lukowski | University of Chicago | United States |
| Monica Munoz-Torres | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | United States |
| Wolfgang Maier | University of Freiburg | |
| Marietjie Botes | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| Idoia Ochoa | University of Navarra | Spain |
| Eivind Hovig | University of Oslo | Norway |
| Dianne Nicol | University of Tasmania | Australia |
| Tsaone Tamuhla | University of the Western cape | South Africa |
| Michele Ramsay | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa |
| Claes Ladenvall | Uppsala university | Sweden |
| Ian Fore | US National Institutes of Health | United States |
| Jason Walker | Washington University School of Medicine | United States |
| Soumya Swaminathan | World Health Organization | Switzerland |