Hiromi Matsubara MD, PhD

·  Director, Entire Medical Departments

·  Director, Department of Cardiology

·  National Hospital Organization, Okayama Medical Center

·  Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

·  Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences

Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara, MD, PhD

·  Director of Health Care Center in Osaka University

·  Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

·  Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

·  Trustee of National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan

Kuo-Yang Wang, MD

·  Chairman, Taiwan Pulmonary Hypertension Association (TPHA)

·  Director, Center for Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Vascular Disease, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Takeshi Ogo, MD, PhD

·  Department of Advanced medical research for pulmonary hypertension

·  Division of pulmonary circulation, Department of cardiovascular medicine National cardiovascular center, Osaka, Japan

Zhi-Cheng Jing, MD

·  Tenured Professor of Medicine and, Director of Key Lab of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine

·  Thrombosis and Haemostasis Center, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, FuWai Hospital

·  State Key Lab of Cardiovascular Disease, Pekin Union Medical College and Chinese Academy Medical Sciences

Stephan Rosenkranz, MD

·  Chair, Cologne Cardiovascular Research Center (CCRC)

·  Head of Expert Center on Pulmonary Hypertension, the University of Cologne

Head ("Principal Investigator") of working group on "Molecular Cardiology"; Research focus: Signal transduction and pathobiological relevance of receptor tyrosine kinases in cardiovascular disease