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Professor Jaromír Pastorek is an excellent Slovak biochemist, pedagogue, and discoverer of the gene encoding a protein CA IX which serves as an endogenous marker of hypoxia in tumors. At present, prof. Pastorek is a Principal Investigator at the Biomedical Research Center of Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS). Prof. Pastorek was the President of Slovak Academy of Sciences from 2009 until 2015. Formerly he also served as the Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Government for Research and Innovation.

Richard Imrich, MD, DrSc. Associate Professor has been working in the field of clinical research of neuroendocrine immune and metabolic interactions for more than two decades. He defended his PhD thesis in 2003 and his doctoral dissertation in 2014. In 2004 he was a postdoctoral at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and in 2005 – 2008 he was a visiting fellow at NINDS / NIH Bethesda, MD, USA. From 2008 to June 2013, he was a director of the Centre for Molecular Medicine of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Since 2017 until 2022 he has been the general director of the National Institute of Rheumatic Diseases in Piešťany. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 scientific publications with more than 2200 citations, h-index 27 (Scopus).

Cancer Research UK Professor of Medical Oncology at Oxford University, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Cancer, Director of Cancer Research UK Molecular Oncology Laboratories at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Chairman of the CRUK Oxford Cancer Centre, joint lead of the Cancer theme of the Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre in Oxford, fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

Director of the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Co-discoverer of the gene encoding the CA IX.