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Magdalena Pelc is currently assistant-laboratory diagnostician of the Department of Genetics and Clinical Immunology at the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Poland. She completed her Ph.D. studies in medical genetics at the Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny. From 2009 to 2023, she worked at Instytut “Pomnik—Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka”.

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Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko is a Professor of Medicine, Head of the Department of Genetics and Clinical Immunology, and a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NITLD) in Warsaw, Poland. She was the Secretary General of the European Respiratory Society (2019–2022). She received training as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Physiology and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Ohio (2001–2002), and at the Urology Research Center, Medical University of Toledo (2009). She has also received Board certification in Laboratory Immunodiagnostics (2011), Respiratory Diseases (2001), and Internal Medicine (1997). She is widely published with over 220 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is a principal investigator and coordinator on many clinical studies and scientific programs. Her clinical interest is mostly devoted to molecular diagnosis of lung cancer (ctDNA, liquid biopsy, novel biomarkers) as well as COPD and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. She is a coordinator of the National Expert Group for Lung Cancer, a member of the Medical Steering Committee, and a leaf of the Cross-Border Care Committee of the European Reference Network-LUNG. She is a coordinator of the Central-Eastern European Alpha-1 Network, coordinator of the National Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Registry, and head of the Polish Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Diagnostic Lab.

Aleksandra Jezela-Stanek is a Full Professor, working in the Department of Genetics and Clinical Immunology at the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Poland. Her career from 2001 to 2017 was marked by her role as an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute. Her research is primarily centered on exploring inherited metabolic and neurodevelopmental disorders, syndromes involving multiple congenital malformations, and the molecular underpinnings of rare pulmonary diseases and pregnancy failure.