Adaeze C. Ayuk is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, and a Sub- specialist in Paediatric Pulmonology from the University of Cape Town South Africa, with Distinction. She has had Respiratory clinical trainings at Guys and St Thomas Hospital London (Prof Bateman), the Queen Mary University/Barts and the London Hospital (Prof Grigg) and the Royal Brompton Hospital London (Prof Bush). She won the 2011 American Thoracic Society (ATS) small grant award and the young investigators award of the Conference of International Paediatric Pulmonologist (CIPP) in 2012. She has also won the Buist Pathway to Leadership award (BPLA) in 2021 and is the current co-lead Level 2 Faculty for PATS-MECOR research course programe. She serves as an official in the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (National Treasurer), the Nigerian Thoracic Society (Vice President) and the immediate past assembly secretary European Respiratory Society. She is the Sectional Editor for Paediatrics in the Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice (NJCP) and also for Journal of the Pan African Society (JPATS). She has over 90 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently a Professor of Paediatrics and a Consultant Paediatric Pulmonologist at the University of Nigeria (UNN).

Adnan Custovic MD PhD FAAAI is Professor of Paediatric Allergy at Imperial College London. His research has focused upon the origins and natural history of asthma and allergy across the life-course. He pioneered the use of data-driven methodologies in the analysis of complex data, including some of the first uses of machine learning in respiratory medicine/allergy. In 2020, he was elected to the Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2023 he was elected as EAACI Fellow (FEAACI). He was elected as NIHR Senior Investigator in 2023. In 2021, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (FaOP). In 2015 he was awarded ERS Gold Medal for research in asthma. In 2013 he received the BSACI William Frankland Medal for outstanding contributions to clinical allergy in the UK. He delivered numerous prestigious keynote/named lectures. He publisher >450 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with>59,000 citations and h-index of 113. He serves at the Board of Directors of the World Allergy Organisation and has served as a Secretary of the BSACI for two terms, and as President of Asthma section of the EAACI. He has supervised 19 PhD/MD students to completion.