Luca Bertolaccini is an Assistant Professor at the University of Milan and a Deputy Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS in Milan, Italy. His clinical work focuses on lung cancer surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, and multidisciplinary thoracic oncology. His research interests include surgical outcomes, clinical biostatistics, lung cancer screening, and the application of artificial intelligence to clinical decision-making. He contributes to international collaborative research and professional society committees. He is a member of the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Respiratory Society, Royal Society of Statistics, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Scandinavian Society for Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery. His primary clinical interests include lung cancer surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, and thoracic oncology. His research interests and leading publications focus on lung cancer surgery and biostatistics.

Giorgina Barbara Piccoli graduated from the Medical School and Post Graduated Nephrology school in the University of Torino, Italy. Since 1999 she holds the position of University researcher. Since 2007 to 2015 she set up a Nephrology Unit in the san Luigi Hospital, and was the teacher of the Nephrology Course (Aggregate Professor). Since February 2016 she is head of the Nephrology in the Le Mans Hospital in France. Main clinical activities: CKD with particular regard to diabetic and elderly patients, low-protein diets, home hemodialysis and self-care dialysis, analysis of costs and quality of life, pregnancy and CKD. The research activity mainly consists in clinical studies, on different issues of CKD, mainly diet and pregnancy, quality of life and ethical aspects of nephrology. She is in the Editorial board of GIN, BMC Nephrology; Journal of Nephrology, Review of Diabetic Studies and World Journal of Nephrology, and NDT (art consultant). She is Author or co-author of over 200 papers indexed on Medline.