Sejal Saglani BSc(hons) MBBS MD FRCPCH Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine & Director, Centre for Paediatrics & Child Health, Imperial College London Honorary Consultant, Royal Brompton Hospital, London My research focusses on mechanisms underlying the inception of severe asthma and preschool wheeze in children, finding novel therapies to improve control, reduce exacerbations and to achieve disease modification. Combined investigations using my neonatal mouse model, paediatric bronchoscopic airway samples, and translation to clinical trials has led to a research programme with the ultimate aim of identifying disease modifying therapies for preschool wheeze and childhood severe asthma.

Professor Erick Forno is a pediatric pulmonologist and Vice-Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. Prof. Forno's overarching research interests include the epidemiology and genomics of asthma; studying the effects of obesity on childhood respiratory health; the use of "omics" approaches to identify predictive and response biomarkers in pediatric pulmonary diseases; and the development of AI technology to improve respiratory health for children. His research is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Forno has served as Chair of the Program and Planning Committees in the Pediatrics Assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), as Vice-Chair of the ATS Scientific Advisory Committee, and as Program Committee Chair for the ATS Section on Genetics and Genomics. He is also working to establish a Severe Pediatric Asthma Consortium in the US.

Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, and Pediatric Pulmonary Unit Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUCRS) Porto Alegre, Brazil