Professor Lüscher (www.tomluescher.ch) is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiology and is Director of Research, Education & Development at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, and Professor of Cardiology and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Academic Group at King’s College in London, UK. He works part-time as Chairman of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Zurich (www.cmc.uzh.ch). He has mentored numerous colleagues with many holding chairs at universities worldwide. His research focuses on vascular biology and acute coronary syndromes. He is among the 0.1% most cited scientists with a h-index of 155 (Scopus). He is editor of the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular and the Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine (both Oxford University Press). He is active on social media (twitter.com/TomLuscher) and has a YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/InsideCardiology). He was editor-in-chief of the European Heart Journal and continues as President of the European Society of Cardiology 2024-2026.

Dr. Edina Cenko, MD, PhD, FESC, is a clinical cardiologist and researcher at the University of Bologna, where she also completed her MD and PhD. Her research focuses on ischemic heart disease, risk stratification, and sex and gender differences in cardiovascular outcomes. She has served as investigator in major international registries and research projects on acute and chronic coronary syndromes, prevention, epidemiology, and quality of care. Her work has been published in leading journals, including The Lancet, European Heart Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, and JACC. She is a CVCT-FT Fellow, reviewer for major journals, and recipient of multiple international awards recognizing excellence in cardiovascular research. Dr. Cenko holds key roles in international collaborations, including ISACS, the ESC-EuroHeart ACS/PCI Working Group, The Lancet Regional Health–Europe Commission on Cardiovascular Inequalities, and the Global Burden of Disease Network. She serves as Chairperson of the ESC Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation

Dr. Teresa Padró is Head of the research group “Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease” at the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain. Her research focuses on cardiovascular and ischaemic heart disease, integrating basic and translational approaches, with particular emphasis on the identification and characterization of novel RNA (coding and non-coding), lipid metabolites, and protein biomarkers with diagnostic, risk stratification, and therapeutic potential. She has authored 210 PubMed-indexed publications in high-impact cardiovascular journals, including original articles, position papers, and reviews. She is Past-Chair of the Working Group on ‘Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation’ of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Dr. Padró is also a member of the Executive Committee and Secretary General of the European and Mediterranean League for Thrombotic Diseases (EMLTD), as well as a member of several biomedical scientific societies and a Fellow of the ESC.

Elena Osto is since 2023 Chair and Director of the Division of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. She has been previously assistant Professor at the University Hospital and University of Zurich in Switzerland. She obtained her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Padova, Italy, where she also became a board-certified cardiologist. Her research focuses on cardio-metabolic research and she is specialized in endothelial metabolism and function in immuno-metabolic disarrangements like obesity, diabetes and aging. Her clinical expertise focuses on advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging and sex-differences in coronary microvascular dysfunction. She has published several original articles, reviews, scientific statements in high-ranked Journals in the cardiovascular field. She is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) since 2015; Chairperson 2024-26 of the Working Group: Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology (WG-AVB) of the ESC and board member of the European Society of Microcirculation.