2025 Nature Partnership Event: Breaking barriers: global collaboration in translational research

1.Professor Péter Hegyi

Péter Hegyi, member of Academia Europea, Professor and Chair of Basic and Clinical Translational Sciences at Academia Europea, Director of Center for Translational Medicine at Semmelweis University, and Strategic Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine at University of Pécs, Hungary.

Topic proposed: Building intercontinental networks in translational science

2.Professor Jerzy Duszynski

Professor of Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Advisor to the President of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Former President of PAS, member of PAS, Academia Europaea, Chinese Academy of Sciences (foreign member) and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (foreign member), Poland

Topic proposed: Bridging basic research and clinical practices.

3.Professor Roland Eils

Roland Eils, member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Professor and Founding Director of the BIH Center for Digital Health at Charité in Berlin, Germany, and Executive Dean of Intelligent Medicine Institute at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Topic proposed: An interdisciplinary approach to translational research

4.Professor Íscia Lopes-Cendes

Íscia Lopes-Cendes, elected Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Steering Committee of Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed), Principal Investigator at Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), Brazil.

Topic proposed: Global collaboration models in precision medicine

5.Professor Yao He

Director of the Macao Translational Medicine Centre, Chair Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), recipient of the National Outstanding Young Persons' Fund, a leading talent of the National "Ten Thousand People's Plan", Deputy Director/Executive Member of the Biomedical Photonics Division of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering.

Topic proposed: Advancing translational medicine in Macau: A vision for future cross-regional collaboration