Katerina Akassoglou is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, and a professor in the department of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She has pioneered studies in the investigation of vascular and immune mechanisms in neurologic diseases and, in particular, the role of the blood clotting factors in CNS autoimmunity, trauma, and neurodegeneration.

Maria J. Donoghue is the senior associate dean for faculty affairs and strategic planning at Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences. Donoghue co-founded and directed a major in neurobiology and directed Georgetown's long-standing Howard Hughes Medical Institute University program.

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta is a PhD student in the cognition and perception program at New York University.