Dr. Martijn Spruit is a professor at Maastricht University and an executive board member at Ciro in Horn, the Netherlands. His research is driven by his ambition to improve the health status of patients with chronic respiratory disease. As a physiotherapy and rehabilitation scientist, he focuses on a fundamental change in the organization of care of the pulmonary patient population. His emphasis on shifting from traditional drug therapy to integrated allied healthcare has made him one of the key experts in pulmonary rehabilitation today. He has authored more than 410 peer-reviewed English language papers, including invaluable contributions to rehabilitation guidelines. He has also been engaged with the ds European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Lung Foundation (ELF) over the years in various roles, work for which he received the ERS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.

Dr. Arto Hautala works as an associate professor of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. With a background in physical therapy, exercise physiology and biomechanics, his research interests include disease management and prevention, mechanisms for individual exercise responses in health and disease, cardiovascular mortality and utilising technology in remote rehabilitation. With over 100 publications, his expertise is reinforced by his current roles as a chair in the working group for planning current Finnish guidelines for exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation and as an expert in Finnish Medical Society Duodecim and Executive Board of Current Care for the Finnish guideline of physical activity and exercise training. He serves as the vice president of the Finnish Society of Sport Sciences for 2021-2025 and expert for the National Sports Council from 2023 to 2027.

Ksenia Boriskina has been working as specialist and senior physician in clinical department for allogeneic stem cell transplantation and cell therapy (CAST) at Karolinska University Hospital since 2013. Ksenia started her career at Karolinska in 2010-2011 as a part of her residency program that she successfully accomplished at the Tartu University (Estonia). Ksenia has taken hands on patients treated with CAR-T cells in standard of care and clinical trials, as well as she handled other cell therapies such as treatments with mesenchymal stromal cells, virus specific T celles and decidual cells. She has worked in the field of hematopoietic stemcell transplantation (HSCT) since 2008. Ksenia has been interested in neurological, cognitive and psychological complication both after HSCT and CAR-T therapy for a while now. She is going to work with combining evaluation of neuropsychological testing with biological analyses and advanced neuroimaging for better understanding of such threatening complications as ICANS and severe fatigue.