Professor Lars Iversen, MD, DMSc, is Professor of Dermatology at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Professor Iversen’s primary research interest is psoriasis but he has also numerous publications on cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Most of his research activities are translational and spans from studies on signal transduction and immunology to clinical studies. Professor Iversen has been a guest researcher at University of California, USA and invited speaker at international conferences in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is the author or co-author of more than 260 articles and book chapters. Professor Iversen’s writings have appeared in several scientific journals, including Nature Immunology, Nature Communication, Blood, PNAS and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He became a councillor of the International Psoriasis Council (IPC) in 2009 and IPC board-member from 2017-2022, and he has served as president of the Danish Dermatological Society from 2018-2020. He received his clinical education and obtained a doctoral degree from Aarhus University in Denmark. In 2018 he was founder of the National Center for Autoimmune Diseases at Aarhus University Hospita

Christophe von Garnier is the head of the Division of Respiratory Medicine and full professor at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). He is a pulmonologist with an interest in severe obstructive pulmonary diseases, lung cancer and interventional bronchoscopy and served as president of the Swiss Society for Pulmonology 2010-2022. As a clinician researcher, he has research interests in mucosal immunology and respiratory microbiota in asthma, COPD, SARS-CoV-2 infection, and lung cancer.

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Prof. Conrad is head of policlinic and the centre for psoriasis at Lausanne University Hospital. He participated at the prestigious Postgraduate Course of Experimental Medicine and Biology at the University of Zurich. After his dermatology training in Zurich and postdoctoral research at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, he returned to Switzerland. Prof. Conrad has received several scientific awards for his basic and translational research on innate and adaptive immunity in inflammatory skin diseases, focusing on psoriasis. He has numerous publications in journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Journal of Immunology, and more than 3500 citations. He has been principal investigator for multiple preclinical and clinical trials in psoriasis and serves as external scientific expert for several international societies and foundations and is an elected councilor of the International Psoriasis Council, IPC.

Mikael Rydén is professor in clinical and experimental adipose tissue research at the Karolinska Institute where he heads the Endocrinology unit and the Center for clinical metabolic research in diabetes. He is also senior consultant in endocrinology at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on the role of human adipose tissue in several different conditions and spans from advanced cell- and molecular biology techniques in different cell culture models to clinical studies in man. He has served as the Honorary Secretary of the EASD 2018-2022 and is a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute.

Gerd R. Burmester, MD, is Senior Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology in the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität und Humboldt-Universität Berlin and consultant rheumatologist, Division of Rheumatology, MVZ endokrinologikum, partner practice of the Charité.

Professor Burmester earned his medical degree from Hannover Medical School and completed a residency at the Medical School of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University in New York and was a visiting scholar at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.

Professor Burmester is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jan van Breemen Medal of the Dutch Society of Rheumatology and the Carol-Nachman Price for Rheumatology.  He serves on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Rheumatology and Clinical Rheumatology, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of RMD Open, official journal of EULAR (European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology). The author himself of more than 950 original and review articles, Professor Burmester’s research interests include rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, immunotherapy, Lyme borreliosis, cellular activation mechanisms in inflammatory joint diseases, and tissue engineering.

Professor Burmester served as President of the German Society of Rheumatology from 2001-2002. He was a Member of the Executive Committee of EULAR from 2003-2006 acting as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Investigative Rheumatology and became an honorary member of EULAR in 2006. From 2011 – 2013 he served as Treasurer of EULAR, and he served as President of EULAR from 2015 – 201. Since 2017 he is President of the Board of Trustees, FOREUM Foundation for Research in Rheumatology. In 2019 he became Master of the American College of Rheumatology and in 2022 received the Meritorious Service Award in Rheumatology from EULAR. He became honorary member of the German Society of Rheumatology in 2022.

Fadi Fakhouri is an adult nephrologist and a clinical researcher. He has a long-standing interest in autoimmune renal diseases, particularly complement-mediated nephropathies. He has conducted several clinical and experimental studies in the field of thrombotic microangiopathies, C3 glomerulopathy and other membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis.

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