Dr. Meucci is a professor and chair of the department of pharmacology and physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM), director of the Center for Neuroimmunology and CNS Therapeutics of DUCOM’s Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, and a fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®) program. She trained as physician-scientist at the University of Naples, University of Virginia, NIH, and the University of Chicago.

Pablo S. Villar is currently doing his PhD thesis at the University of Maryland.

Joel Glover heads the Laboratory of Neural Development and Optical Recording (NDEVOR) and is director of the Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research at the University of Oslo.

Magdalena Nowak is a DPhil candidate at The Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford.