
Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Glioma; Molecular classification; Individualized comprehensive therapy; Molecular targeted therapy
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, chief physician, professor, and doctoral supervisor. He is currently the director of the Neurosurgery Center of Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, the director of Beijing Neurosurgery Institute, the vice president of the School of Neurosurgery of Capital Medical University, and the deputy director of the National Center for Neurological Diseases. He is the first chairman of the Glioma Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association and the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association. He is currently the president of the Beijing Medical Science and Health Society, the chairman of the Asian Glioma Genome Atlas Project, and the Chinese chairman of the Global Glioma Clinical Trial Project. Editor-in-chief of "Neurological Diseases and Mental Health", deputy editor-in-chief of "Journal of Clinical Surgery", deputy editor-in-chief of "Chinese Clinical Practical Medicine", and deputy editor-in-chief of "Cancer Biology & Medicine".
He has been engaged in medical, teaching and research work in the field of comprehensive treatment of brain tumors for a long time. He has built the world's largest multidimensional genomics database of brain gliomas, leading the world's individualized diagnosis and treatment of gliomas based on molecular pathology. He took the lead in conducting molecular pathology research on gliomas in China and introduced molecular typing into glioma classification before WHO. He discovered the fusion gene PTPRZ1-MET that promotes the malignant progression and drug resistance of gliomas, and developed the original targeted drug PLB-1001. The results were published in Cell and won the Top Ten Advances in Chinese Life Sciences in 2018. He took the lead in carrying out awakening surgery in China and established a technical system for motor area protection; established a multilingual language area precision positioning protection plan, and created a staged resection procedure for gliomas in the language function area, with significantly better results than international reports. He has published 362 papers and 10 cover papers in high-level journals such as Cell and PNAS as the corresponding author; he has been cited 15,700 times and has an H index of 66. There are 23 papers in the top 1% of highly cited papers, 46 of which are included in domestic and foreign guidelines, and 20 are cited by international policy documents. He presided over the formulation of multiple diagnosis and treatment guidelines and specifications such as the "Diagnosis and Treatment Specifications for Brain Glioma" and "Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for Brain Glioma" of the National Health Commission, and edited a unified textbook. He has obtained 1 Class III medical device registration certificate and 25 domestic and foreign patents. As the first finisher, he won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 3 first prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels, and the 14th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award. He was awarded the title of Outstanding Communist Party Member of the Beijing Health System and Advanced Worker of Beijing, and was selected as a Beijing Scholar in 2019 and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The precision diagnosis and treatment team for brain gliomas led by him was named the Beijing Worker Pioneer in 2022.

1. Department for Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive, Danube University Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria;
2. European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria;
3. Academia Europeae, London, United Kingdom
Brain-heart interaction; Cerebral blood flow; Primary and secondary prevention; Brain recovery; Neurorestoration; Brain plasticity; Vascular dementia
Michael Brainin is an Austrian neurologist and emeritus professor at the Danube University Krems. He is widely known as a pioneer in stroke research and prevention as well as a leading figure in the development of stroke units. Brainin was president of the Austrian Stroke Society, the European Stroke Organisation and the World Stroke Organization.
In 1998, Brainin co-founded the Austrian Stroke Society (ÖGSF) and was elected as its first president, where he pioneered the planning and establishment of acute stroke units. He also established the first stroke database in Austria, from which the Austrian Stroke Unit Register emerged.
From 2012 to 2014, Brainin was President of the European Stroke Organization (ESO)and from 2018 to 2020, he was President of the World Stroke Organization (WSO). In this global position he propagated the similarities of prevention strategies for stroke as well as dementia and published the "Declaration on the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia" while also developing the project 'Cut Stroke in Half'. From 2008 to 2017, Brainin was also head of the Education Committee of the WSO. In this function, he supported the development of a global network of stroke researchers as well as the educational programs for stroke physicians in numerous countries. Brainin also co-founded the World Stroke Academy, a web-based learning platform. Together with Wolf-Dieter Heiss, he developed the European Stroke Master Program[6] at the Danube University Krems in 2007, an international program for the training of stroke specialists.
Brainin is active in numerous of the WSO's activities. Together with Valery Feigin, he chairs the WSO's Global Policy Committee. He organized and co-chaired numerous international congresses, including the World Stroke Congress in 2020. Throughout his career, he represented the stroke agenda in meetings with the UN and the WHO, often jointly with the World Federation of Neurology, World Heart Federation and World Hypertension League. He is the initiator and supporter of global stroke prevention programs (such as the "Cut Stroke in Half" program). Brainin furthermore advised many countries on the creation and implementation of strategies for stroke treatment, stroke prevention and specialist training (including a training program of 9,000 doctors which he led in Vietnam, as well as other programs in Myanmar, China, Russia and the Philippines). He also supported the founding of the African Stroke Organisation.
His scientific achievements include the development of dysphagia screening, the Gugging Swallowing Screen (GUSS). To harmonize post-stroke care Brainin initiated the development of the Post Stroke Checklist (PSC). A focus of his research was Post-Stroke Cognitive Decline: He initiated and carried out with his team the first randomized polyintervention trial (ASPIS) for the prevention of post-stroke cognitive decline.

Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Cardiovascular disease; Heart rhythm; Syncope; Sudden cardiac death; Autonomous nerve
Professor Yao received his doctorate degree from Peking Union Medical College in 1999. He has been committed to the diagnosis and treatment of complex and difficult arrhythmias for a long time, and is an international leader in the fields of atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, sudden death and syncope. The catheter ablation he has completed is the largest series in the world, most of which are patients from all over the country and abroad with various complex and difficult or failed operations in other hospitals.
Due to his academic achievements, he became the first Chinese scholar to give lectures at the International Heart Rhythm Academic Conference, the Ventricular Tachycardia Conference, and the European, American, East Asian, and Southeast Asian Regional Conferences. He has demonstrated surgeries in more than ten countries in Europe, America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, and has accepted more than 300 specialists from the United States, Britain, Norway, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries to come to China for further study and training. He has also opened a training course for cardiac rhythm specialists from countries along the Belt and Road to help improve their cardiac rhythm diagnosis and treatment level. He has undertaken a number of national 15th, 11th, and 12th Five-Year Plan research projects and multiple international multicenter studies, and presided over a major chronic disease project in the 13th Five-Year Plan. Professor Yao serves as deputy editor-in-chief and editorial board member of many academic journals at home and abroad. Professor Yao is currently the vice chairman of the Chinese Medical Association's Cardiac Rhythm Committee and the vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering's Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Branch. He is the chairman of the Asian Heart Rhythm Association (AHRA). He has been awarded the title of National Hundred Thousand Talents, Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, and the State Council Special Allowance. He has been selected into the National Health Science Popularization Expert Database.

Department of Interventional Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Cerebrovascular disease; Carotid stenosis
Vice President of Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Director of Interventional Radiology Department, Deputy Director of Neurosurgery Department, Director of Cerebral Revascularization Center, and Director of Strategic Development of National Center for Neurological Diseases. He is also the President of Jinan Hospital of Xuanwu Hospital, Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vice Chairman of Neurointervention Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Chairman of Neurointervention Expert Committee of Capacity Building and Continuing Education of National Health Commission, Expert of the Sixth Central Health Consultation, Chairman of Stroke Revascularization Committee of Chinese Medical Education Society, etc.
He has won many honors, including "Golden Lancet Award", "Capital Outstanding Young Physician Award", "Beijing Outstanding Physician Award", "Second Prize of Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award", and "Second Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress".

Sanbo Brain Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Diagnosis and treatment of complex pain; Anesthesia for neurosurgery; Cerebral protection; Blood protection
1. Vice Chairman of the Food and Drug Optimization Committee of the China On-site Statistics Research Association
2. Executive Vice Chairman of the Pain Branch of the Chinese Society of Ethnic Medicine
3. Honorary Chairman of the Anesthesia Professional Committee of the China Association of Non-public Medical Institutions
4. Honorary Chairman of the Anesthesia Specialist Branch of the Beijing Medical Association
5. Vice Chairman of the Anesthesia Professional Committee of the China Human Health Science and Technology Promotion Association
6. The 10th Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Anesthesiology
7. Chairman of the Pain Physician Branch of the Beijing Medical Association
8. Standing Committee Member of the Neuromodulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Association

Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, United States
Interventional cardiology; High risk intervention; Coronary intervention; Valvular heart disease; Endovascular procedures; Vascular access; Mechanical circulatory support; Ischemia; Acute coronary syndrome; Acute myocardial infarction

1. Department of Medicine and Technological Innovation, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy;
2. Department of Medicine and Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Maugeri Care and Research Institutes, IRCCS Tradate, Tradate, Italy
Cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with hypertension; Diabetes; Heart failure and coronary artery disease; Evaluation of cardiovascular treatment; Diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction

1. Department of Vascular Surgery, Mureș County Emergency Hospital, Romania and George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Romania;
2. Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, Center for Advanced Medical and Pharmaceutical Research, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Romania;
3. Experimental Medicine and Medical Imaging Research Center, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Romania
Vascular surgery; Arteriovenous fistula; Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Carotid disease; Peripheral arterial disease; Bioengineering; Biomechanical properties; Arterial reconstruction; By-pass; Angioplasty

Cardiovascular Research Center, Mass General Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United State
Brain ischemia; C-Reactive protein; Cerebrovascular circulation; Genetic modelling; Hyperbaric oxygenation; In vitro vascular reactivity; Infarction middle cerebral artery; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Nitric oxide synthase type Ii; Nitric oxide synthase type Iii; Reperfusion injury

1. Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, United States;
2. Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, RWJ Barnabas Healthcare System, New Jersey School of Medicine, Rutger University, Newark, United States
Stress echocardiography; Transesophageal echocardiography; Structural heart imaging; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular computed tomography (CT)

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health, University and Civil Hospital of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Atrial fibrillation; Heart failure; Pacemakers; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathies; Echocardiography; Chronic heart failure; Electrocardiography; Cardiovascular

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Epigenetic differences associated with cardiovascular disease; Clinical and molecular; Epigenetics; Chromatin; Diabetes; Histones; Transcriptional regulation; Computational epigenomics; Epilepsy; Neurological disorders; Metabolic disease; DOHAD; POTS; Orthostatic intolerance

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, United States
Receptor structure-function & signaling; Epigenome editing & transcription regulation; Translational research in neurodegenerative diseases; Mood disorder; Cancer; Diabetes; Cardiovascular diseases

Division of Cardiology, Ospedale Regina Montis Regalis Mondovi, Cuneo, Italy
Clinical cardiology; Heart failure; Cardiovascular imaging; Echocardiography; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Nuclear cardiology; Hemodynamics

Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Clinical and experimental electrophysiology; Farapulse-pulsed field ablation; His bundle pacing; MitraClip; Heart failure; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiomyopathies; Chronic heart failure; Interventional cardiology; Myocardial infarction; Acute myocardial infarction; Electrocardiography; Clinical cardiology

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Brain and spine tumours; Spinal degenerative disease; Trigeminal neuralgia; Hydrocephalus; Chiari malformation; Complex spinal dysraphisms; Craniofacial abnormalities (Craniosynostosis); Traumatic brain & spinal injury

Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgery Specialties, University of Catania, Italy
Cognitive disorders; COVID-19; Geriatrics; Neurology; Neuroscience; Psychiatry & Psychology; Rehabilitation; Translational medicine; Cerebrovascular diseases; Dementia; Neurosonology; Non-invasive brain stimulation; Sleep disorders

Department of Physiology, and Neuroscience Institute, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States
Pathobiology, mechanisms and therapies of diabetic cardiomyopathy; Functional molecular genomics and cardiometabolic disorders; Calcium signaling; Myocardial fibrosis; Genetic instability; Heart failure; Investigational drug discovery for heart failure and diabetes and ER stress complications

Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
Atrial fibrillation; Electrocardiography; Cardiomyopathies; Cardiology; Pacemakers; Cardiovascular medicine; Heart failure; Echocardiography; Clinical cardiology; Cardiovascular

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Machine learning; Optimization; Signal processing; Bioinformatics

1. Excellence Unit of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Biology (IBGM), University of Valladolid and CSIC, Valladolid, Spain;
2. Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Physiology, University of Valladolid Medical School, Valladolid, Spain
Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Gene therapy, Mitochondria, Oxidative stress

Neurovascular Research Unit, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Stroke therapy; Migraine disorders; Migraine with aura; Cortical spreading depression; Spreading depression (SD); Spreading depolarization (SD); Electrocorticogram (ECoG); Vagus nerve stimulation/VNS; Aging neuroscience

Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, United States
HDL; Mimetic peptides; Atherosclerosis, Lipids; Artery wall metabolism; Small intestine; Systemic inflammation; Cardiovascular function; Gut microbiota in dyslipidemia

European Prevention Center and Private Practice Cardiology, c/o Medical Center Düsseldorf (Grand Arc), Duesseldorf, Germany
Cardiovascular imaging; Echocardiography together with tissue doppler / Strain rate; Stress echocardiography including myocardial reperfusion / Hibernation beside stunning; Cardiac multidetector computed tomography (MDCT with CACS and CCTA); Cardiac magnetic resonance tomography (CMR); Subclinical imaging; Cardiovascular risk stratification and preventive cardiology including prinipals of personalized medicine

Cardiology Service, Hospital Santa Marta, Habilitation of Physiology, Medicine of Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal
Interventional cardiology; Heart failure; Atrial fibrillation; Arrhythmias; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Tachycardia; Ventricular fibrillation

Clinic of Cardiology and Angiology, Acibadem City Clinic Cardiovascular Center University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria
Endovascular treatment of aortic dissection; Endovascular treatment of thoracic, Abdominal and thoracoabdominal aneurysms; Procedural and clinical results of renal denervation; Carotid artery stenting (including radial approach for CAS, cognitive dysfunction of patients with "string sign" carotid stenosis and level of correction after endovascular recanalization); Coronary stenting in complex scenarios (bifurcations, calcium containing lesions); TAVI (minimalistic approach for TAVI, bail-out procedures in cases of PVL); TEER (MitraClip) for patients with mitral regurgitation and prohibitive surgical risk; Catheter-based treatment of intermediate and high-risk patients with pulmonary embolism; Artificial intelligence facilitated thermography to detect carotid and peripheral vascular disease

Department of Vascular Surgery, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Romania
Vascular surgery; Arteriovenous fistula; Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Carotid disease; Peripheral arterial disease; Bioengineering; Biomechanical properties; Arterial reconstruction; By-pass; Angioplasty

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Stroke outcome; Health services research; Pharmacoeconomic and stroke therapy; Quality of care; Translating new emerging therapies into clinical practice; Epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease

Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United State
Aorta center; Cardiovascular imaging; Computed tomography (CT Scan); Coronary artery calcium score; Heart imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Noninvasive diagnostic testing; Noninvasive testing for vascular disease; Cardiovascular disease

Multidisciplinary Neuroprotection Laboratories, Center of Perioperative Organ Protection, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, United States
Translational research; Ischemic stroke; Cardiac arrest; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Traumatic brain injury

China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing Tiantan Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Neuroimmune diseases; Neuroimmunology; Immune mechanisms of stroke; Immune interventions in cerebrovascular diseases; Immune targeting therapy

1. Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore
Brain-heart interaction; Stroke genetics; Patent foramen ovale; Young stroke; Brain health

1. Department of Cardiology, Sourasky Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel;
2. Emeritus Plastic Surgery Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
Management of localized CIED (cardiac implantable electronic devices) and other implantable devices and hard-to-heal wounds by targeted ultra-high concentrations of antibiotics

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Hygiene, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
Atherosclerosis; Cerebral vascular disease, Hypoxia and related conditions; Innate immunity; C-reactive protein; Complement system; Macrophages; Modified lipoproteins; Histological, Histochemical and immunohistochemical methodology

Second Department of Neurology, Attikon Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Stroke; Cerebrovascular diseases; Neurosonology; Intravenous thrombolysis; Mechanical thrombectomy; Neuroimaging; Secondary stroke prevention; Ischemic stroke; Intracerebral hemorrhage

Department of Research, Fondazione Paolo Procacci, Roma, Italy
Pain medicine; Pain assessment; Pain management; Acute pain; Chronic pain; Pain research; Comorbidity; Anesthesiology

Cardiovascular Translational Research Center, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy SmartState Endowed Chair in Biofabrication, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States
Vascular smooth muscle; Endothelium; Hypertension; Vasculogenic sexual dysfunction (male and female)

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States
Alzheimer’s disease; Treatment advancements; Cholinesterase inhibitors; Anti-amyloid immunotherapies; FDA-approved medications; Cognitive decline; Memory loss; Neurology; Dementia care; Brain health; Neurodegeneration