- Galit Alter, Moderna, USA
- Christian Drosten, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Megan Baldridge, Washington University St. Louis, USA
- Catherine Blish, Stanford University, USA
- Christian Brander, IrsiCaixa, Spain
- Frederic (Rick) Bushman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Michael Diamond, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
- George Gao, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
- Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Colin Hill, University College Cork, Ireland
- Penny Moore, NICD, South Africa
- Rino Rappuoli, Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, Italy
- Karen Mossman, McMaster University, Canada
- Leif Erik Sander, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Erica Saphire, La Jolla Institute of Immunology, USA
- Kanta Subbarao, Doherty Institute, Australia
- Ian Wilson, The Scripps Research Institute, USA