Aikawa Elena – M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also Co-director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS), Founding Director of the Heart Valve Translational Research Program (HVTRP) and Associate Head of Cardiovascular Life Sciences Section at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Tatyana V. Vavilova – Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Head of Laboratory of Medicine and Genetics, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Health ofRussia, Chief External Expert in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics of the North-West Federal District (St. Petersburg, Russia), vtv.lab.spb@gmail.com

Dmitry A. Zateischikov – Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Head of Department of Therapy, Cardiology and Functional Diagnostics and Nephrology Course, the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Head of Primary Vascular Department of City Clinical Hospital No.51, Member of Presidium of Emergency Cardiology Section of the Russian Cardiological Society, Member of the European Society of Cardiology, European Atherosclerosis Society, American Heart Association (Moscow, Russia), dz@bk.ru

Andrei L. Komarov – Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Leading Researcher, Department of Clinical Problems in Atherothrombosis, Myasnikov Cardiology Institute, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology (Moscow, Russia), abdobrovolsky@inbox.ru

Pavel S. Laguta – Cand. of Sci. (Med), Deputy Head of the Fourth Kardiology Department, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology (Moscow, Russia), pavellaguta@yandex.ru 

Alexey V. Mazurov – Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Head of the Cell Adhesion Laboratory, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology (Moscow, Russia), avmazurov@list.ru

Lyudmila P. Papayan– Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Head of the Blood Coagulation Laboratory of the Russian Research Institute of Hematology and Transfusiology of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, the Federal State Budgetary Institution (St. Petersburg, Russia),  papayan@mail.ru

Valentin E. Sinitsyn – Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Head of the Center for Radiographic Diagnosis, Medical Rehabilitation Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Moscow, Russia), vsini@mail.ru

Andrei V. Fonyakin – Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Leading Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Cardioneurology, Scientific Center of Neurology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), fonyakin@mail.ru