Mary Woolley is the president of Research!America, the largest not-for-profit alliance in the US working to make research to improve health a higher national priority. Woolley is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on its Governing Council. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and
Andrea Grignolio, Ph.D. in History of Science, he is professor on contract in History of Medicine, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. In 2004 he studied at the Centre Cavaillès of École Normale Supérieure in Paris, in 2006-2007 was a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, and in 2009
Elena Cattaneo was born in Milan in 1962. Married with two children. In 1986 she graduated cum laude in Pharmacy at the University of Milan, and later obtained a PhD in Biotechnologies Applied to Pharmacology. Since December 2003, she has been Full Professor at the University of Milan, where she teaches biotechnological applications in pharmacology
Clara Sattler de Sousa e Brito is a Patent Attorney with a specialization in biotechnological inventions. Following her studies of physics, philosophy and law and research activities at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Germany and Yale Law School, USA, she is now a partner at the patent law firm Liermann-Castell.
Oliver Brüstle (born 1962) is Professor of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn. He is also Co-Founder and Scientific Director of LIFE & BRAIN GmbH, a biomedical enterprise serving as translational hub of the University of Bonn Medical Center. Trained as an M.D., Oliver Brüstle conducted research and clinical work in neuropathology and neurosurgery
