Dermot McGovern, representing the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre at the University of California, Los Angeles in the USA
Philip Rosenstiel, representing the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology at the Kiel University in Germany
Britta Siegmund, Medical Director of the Medical Department, Division of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology at the Charity-University Medicine Berlin in Germany
Jonas Halvarsson, representing the Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Translational Gastroenterology research group of Örebro University in Sweden