Arnold von Eckardstein studied medicine in Giessen and Kiel and then specialized in laboratory medicine and clinical chemistry in Frankfurt and Münster (Germany). Since 2001, he is professor at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich and the director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry of the University Hospital of Zurich (Switzerland; http://www.en.ikc.usz.ch/Pages/default.aspx). His main research interests include risk factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases as well as structure, function, and metabolism of high density lipoproteins (HDL) and sphingolipids. He has published about 400 original and review papers in international peer reviewed scientific journals. Arnold von Eckardstein is the Editor-in-Chief of Atherosclerosis and current member of the Editorial Boards of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; BBA Molecular Biology of Lipids; Cardiovascular Research, and European Heart Journal. Previously, he served as the Chairman of the European Lipoprotein Club, the Swiss and German Atherosclerosis Societies, and the Swiss Society of Clinical Chemistry as well as the Secretary of the European Atherosclerosis Society.

Michal Vrablik M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Internal Medicine at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic. His main interests include preventive cardiology, clinical lipidology, and genetics of lipoprotein metabolism disorders. He is the chairman of the Czech Atherosclerosis Society, member of board of the Czech Society of Internal Medicine and the chairman of the Czech Association of Preventive Cardiology of the Czech Society of Cardiology. He is the head of the National centre of the FH screening MedPed program. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Atherosclerosis Society between 2012 and 2016, currently he continues cooperation with EAS as a member of its Educational Platform Committee. He is a member of the editorial board of PCSK9 Forum. In 2018 he joined the steering committee of the International Lipid Expert Panel. He closely cooperates with the International Atherosclerosis Society being the chair of IAS Regional Federation for Europe since January 2019. Dr. Vrablik has authored and co-authored more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is the sole author of three monographs and of 25 book chapters. He is also a member of editorial board as well as a reviewer for several national and international journals.