Daniel Tan is a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), an Associate Professor at Duke-National Medical School, and a Senior Clinical-Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore. He is also Deputy Head of the Division of Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Sciences, and Director of the Experimental Cancer Therapeutics Unit (Phase I Unit) at NCCS. Dr Tan’s research interests are in thoracic and head and neck oncology, and cancer drug development. His work is focused on improving the understanding of determinants of response and resistance to targeted therapy and immunotherapy. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, many in high impact-factor journals. He has been the recipient of several national and international awards for his research, including the ASCO Merit Award twice, and in 2019, the IASLC Daniel C. Idhe Lectureship Award for Medical Oncology. Dr Tan serves as Associate Editor for the J Thoracic Oncol and is the conference co-chair for the World Conference in Lung Cancer (WCLC) in 2020, and the track chair for translational research at ESMO 2021. 

Yasushi Yatabe is currently Chief at the Department of Diagnostic Pathology, National Cancer Center Hospital, and Chief at the Division of Molecular Pathology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. He received his medical degree from Tsukuba University School of Medicine in 1991 and his PhD from Nagoya University in 1995. Dr. Yatabe spent 2 years of a post-doctoral fellowship at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and on his return to Japan he worked as a Senior Pathologist and Chief (from 2005) at the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital until 2019 when he moved to his current position at the National Cancer Center in Tokyo.

Dedicated to research, Dr. Yatabe has published more than 500 articles in peer-reviewed journalsand presented his work at many national and international conferences. He has also served as a co-chair of the expert panel for the 2018 updated CAP/IASLC/AMP Molecular Testing Guideline. Throughout his career, he has earned a number of awards, including the 2017 IASLC Mary J. Matthews pathology/translational research award. His recent research interest focuses on translational research of lung cancer, contributing to expanding integration of clinical molecular oncology and pathology. Dr. Yatabe is a member of several societies including the American Thoracic Society and American Association for Cancer Research, and is a Board Member of the Japanese Society of Pathology, Japanese Association for Cancer Research, Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology and the Japanese Lung Cancer Society. In addition, he is an associate editor of Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Cancer Science and Pathology International.

Myung-Ju Ahn, MD, PhD is a Professor of Hemato-Oncology at the Department of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests include the development of predictive and prognostic markers for personalized lung cancer therapy. She has recently focused on early clinical trials for the development of drug discovery and repositioning of targeted drugs and the development of a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) genome atlas. Professor Ahn received her medical and doctoral degrees from Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, and completed her residency training at Hanyang University Hospital. She has held numerous research fellowships, including a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US, and has authored over 300 cancer research publications.

Professor Ahn is a member of numerous research associations and societies, including the IASLC (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer), AACR (American Association of Clinical Research), and ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology), and is currently Chief of the Executive Committee and Chairperson of the Lung Cancer Disease Committee of the KCSG (Korean Cancer Study Group) and director of Korean Association for Lung Cancer Association (KALC). She was President of the Korean Society of Medical Oncology (KSMO) and has also been Chair of the multidisciplinary Immuno-oncology Study Group (2017–2018). She is a board member for the Korea Cancer Society (KCA) and KSMO, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Thoracic Oncology. Professor Ahn’s accolades for her dedication to cancer research include: Best Researcher Award, Korean Medical Women Association (2003); Best Researcher Award, Korean Society of Medical Oncology (2015); Boryoung Scientific Award, Korean Cancer Research Foundation (2018); Wunsch Medical Award, Korean Academy of Medical Science (2020); Excellent Researcher Award, Minister of Health and Welfare (2021); Adi. F. Gadzar Merit Award from IASLC (2023), and Highly Cited Researcher, Clavirate Analytics (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).

Chien-Chung Lin is currently a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan. He is also part-time faculty in the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Molecular Medicine – all in the College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University. Professor Lin received his MD from the Chung Shan Medical University Taichung, Taiwan, and his PhD from the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Professor Lin has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on the subject of non-small cell lung cancer. He has also been an invited speaker at regional and international congresses, including American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in 2017. Currently, he is a co-Principal Investigator in several clinical trials. 

Nick Pavlakis, MBBS, MMEd (Clin Epi), PhD is a Senior Medical Oncologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital, North Shore Private Hospital, and Northern Cancer Institute (GenesisCare) in Sydney, Australia, and Professor of Medicine at the Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney. He is also Co-Chair of the Bill Walsh Translational Cancer Research Laboratory at the Royal North Shore Hospital. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the oncology field, including clinical and translational research.

Professor Pavlakis is trained in anti-angiogenic drug development, and he has an interest in new drug development and evaluation of drug resistance in lung cancer, mesothelioma, and GI malignancies, particularly NETs (Neuroendocrine Tumors). He is the Board Chair of the Thoracic Oncology Group of Australia (TOGA). He is study co-chair of several national and international co-operative group studies, including the TOGA ASPiRATION trial evaluating upfront comprehensive genomic profiling in newly diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). He is IASLC (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) CME (Continuing Medical Education) and Education Committee co-Chair and was on faculty for the 2023 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

Molly Li is a board-certified specialist medical oncologist in Hong Kong and is currently the Clinical Assistant Professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2014 with a distinction in medicine and psychiatry, and his research interest is in targeted therapy in lung cancer especially resistance mechanisms to osimertinib in EGFR-mutated lung cancer. Dr Li is the principal investigator or co-investigator of multiple lung cancer clinical trials in the Prince of Wales Hospital and conducts a number of translational and laboratory studies on drug resistance. He has served as a reviewer for multiple journals including Journal of Thoracic Oncology and Translational Lung Cancer Research. He has also been an invited speaker in multiple local and regional events and conferences.