School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK;

Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;Atlas University Research Center (ARC), Istanbul Atlas University, Istanbul, Turkey;Süleyman Ergün is a full Professor at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany. Prior to being appointed to his current position, he completed his doctoral thesis (1993) and his “Habilitation” (1998) at the Institute of Anatomy, Hamburg–Eppendorf University Hospital. He undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Judah Folkman’s Lab) (1997) and was a member of the executive board of the Hamburg “Ärztekammer”, Germany (2002–2003). In 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Institute of Anatomy at Essen University Hospital, Germany. Since 2011, he has been Chair of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany. He was a member of the executive board of the Anatomical Society (2014–2019) and has been elected to the review panel for medicine at the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (German Research Foundation) (since 2020). His research covers vascular biology and endothelial barrier function; cardiovascular regeneration; angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, including tumor vascularization, stem and progenitor cell biology; vascular bioprinting; and organoids. He received the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Award for Vascular Cell Biology and the Konjetzny Award of the “Hamburger Krebsgesellschaft” (Cancer Society of Hamburg) for his research on processes of the structural formation of the vessel wall in angiogenesis and the growth of tumors, among other awards.

Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), St. Catharines, Canada;Prof. Dr. Jens Coorssen is the joint-EiC for Proteomes. He has served as EiC from 2021 and also serves as a EBM for Biotech. Dr. Coorssen works in the areas of basic, clinical, and translational research. His research focuses on proteomics and lipidomics — the analysis of proteins and lipids, including their distribution, structure, and function. His basic research focus is on exocytosis, which is the process of a cell releasing proteins into the fluid outside the cell. In particular, he examines the how calcium is involved as a trigger. He also studies the related process of membrane fusion, and the specific roles of the molecules involved. Dr. Coorssen also researches stroke and the cardiovascular dysfunctions which contribute to their occurrence.

Molecular Cardiology and Angiogenesis Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA;Dr. Nilanjana Maulik is a Tenured Professor of Molecular Cardiology and Head of the Angiogenesis Laboratory at the Department of Surgery, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of myocardial angiogenesis in the diseased and infarcted heart, ischemia/reperfusion injury, apoptosis, and the development of cardioprotective strategies, including gene and stem cell therapy. Dr. Maulik has published 170 peer-reviewed original articles and 35 book chapters, delivered over 100 invited lectures nationally and internationally, and has been recognized with the Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is an active member of several prestigious societies, including FASEB, the American Heart Association (AHA), the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHR), the American College of Nutrition (ACN), and the International College of Angiology (ICA). Dr. Maulik has served on multiple NIH study sections, including the Myocardial Ischemia Metabolism (MIM) study section and the NHLBI Program Project Review Committee, and continues to serve as a reviewer for NIH special emphasis panels and the AHA grant review process. In 2026, she was appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the "Molecular Medicine" Section of Current Issues in Molecular Biology (ISSN 1467-3045), published by MDPI.

Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Hersto, Australia;Prof. Dr. André van Zundert is an Affiliate Professor at the Medical School, The University of Queensland (UQ), and an Honorary Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute, Australia. He is an internationally recognized expert in anaesthesiology, with research interests including airway management, general and regional anaesthesia, obstetric anaesthesia, and pain management. He has authored more than 400 scholarly publications and three major textbooks in anaesthesia. His research focuses on improving the safety and efficacy of anaesthesia, particularly airway management and recovery from general anaesthesia.