Giorgia Pastorin received her MSc degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 2000 and her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2004 from the University of Trieste (Italy). She spent two years of her postdoc at the CNRS in Strasbourg (France), where she specialized in drug delivery. She joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June 2006, as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy-Faculty of Science. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011, Assistant Head in 2014, Deputy Head in 2016 and Full Professor in 2024; she is currently Head of the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at NUS.

Her research interest is focused on drug delivery, with the purpose of enhancing the pharmacological effects of bioactive agents (such as Pt-based anticancer complexes) while minimizing undesirable side effects. Recently, her BioNanoTechnology (BNT) group developed cell-derived nanovesicles (CDNs) and biohybrids as novel biocompatible Extracellular Vesicle mimetics for targeted drug delivery. Her approach to using unconventional yet efficacious cell-derived nanocarriers has become her signature programme, resulting in new invention disclosures, industry engagements and even an international BioDrone award in 2021. She is the sole and co-Editor, respectively, of two books related to drug delivery and author in more than 160 articles in internationally peer-reviewed journals. For the work performed by her BNT group in NUS, she has received both national and international awards and she has been invited to prestigious international conferences as plenary or keynote speaker. She has supervised about 30 PhD & Master students.

Associate Professor Natalie Pang is University Librarian and Head of the Communications and New Media department at the National University of Singapore. She is a researcher and educator in digital citizenship and digital humanities. Her research lies at the intersection of technology and society, and her research projects are organised under the themes of digital citizenship, digital inclusion and well-being, and digital heritage. She is involved in various academic communities in library and information science and has served as chair of the programming committee for the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Natalie was also a member of the steering committees for the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres) and the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL). Her work on digital inclusion has been recognised internationally and she serves as a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion, Communication Theory, Asian Journal of Communication and as a member of the Inclusive Policy Lab at UNESCO.

Associate Professor Chan has lectured for more than 30 years and won many awards for excellence in teaching. She had been placed on the NUS Faculty Honor Roll for a record three times in 2005, 2009 and 2015 respectively, for continuous teaching excellence. Prof. Chan is also the co-founder of GEA-NUS Pharmaceutical Processing Research Laboratory which serves as an international platform for promoting research and manpower training in process technology. Her research interests include pharmaceutical formulation and processing, and pharmaceutical microbiology. She also has strong interest in the quality and safety issues of medicinal products. She takes great pride in advancing these areas of interest with her colleagues, collaborators, postgraduates and final year students. To date, she has supervised and successfully graduated 34 PhD and 9 MSc students by research. In addition, she has co-authored about 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals besides numerous conference papers. In addition to her academic pursuits, Prof. Chan has also served as a technical expert for the Singapore Accreditation Council, scientific reviewer for local and overseas research grants, thesis examiner for local and overseas universities as well as reviewer for international scientific journals.

Sia Chong Hock is the Director of Quality Assurance and Senior Consultant of Audit and Licensing at the Health Sciences Authority (HSA). From 1995 to 2022, he was an adjunct faculty of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He had also been a member of the Singapore Pharmacy Council from 2002 to 2018, including being the Chair of its Complaints Panel. He led Singapore to become the first Asian member of the international Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) in 2000, and was subsequently appointed Chair of the ASEAN MRA Task Force and Joint Sectoral Committee on GMP Inspection from 2005 to 2020. In 2013, he was conferred the Industry Pharmacist of the Year Award by the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore, and in 2016, he was honoured with the International Pharmaceutical Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Singapore Affiliate Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Practices in Singapore and ASEAN. More recently, he was a recipient of the PS(Health) Award 2023 for his key role as a core team member responsible for HSA being the first National Regulatory Authority (NRA) in the world to achieve the highest Maturity Level 4 under the World Health Organization Global Benchmarking Tools assessment. On a regular basis, he contributes review articles to international scientific journals. In 2016 and 2019, two regulatory articles which he had co-authored had been named the winner of the ISPE Roger Sherwood Article of the Year Award.