Dr Nicolò Matteo Luca Battisti is a medical oncologist working in the Breast Unit of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. He gained his medical degree at the University of Milan, Italy in 2009 and he completed his specialist training at the University of Milan and National Cancer Institute of Milan, Italy in 2015. He is now working on a research degree (MD[Res]) within the Breast Cancer Research Division of the Institute of Cancer Research of London, UK focusing on different aspects of the care of common malignancies in older adults under the supervision of Dr Alistair Ring and Professor Stephen Johnston.

He has an Italian Board Certification in Medical Oncology and is on the UK General Medical Council Specialist Register (Medical Oncology). He is also Member of the Royal College of Physicians.

He spent the last year of his specialist training working with Dr Martine Extermann at the Senior Adult Oncology Program of the Moffitt Cancer Center of Tampa, Florida, USA. In 2016, Dr Battisti joined the Breast Unit of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, where he currently works with Dr Alistair Ring and Professor Stephen Johnston. 

Dr Battisti’s main clinical and research interests are breast oncology, thoracic oncology and geriatric oncology. His main areas of investigation are comorbidity, comprehensive geriatric assessment, quality of life and prediction of treatment toxicity in older patients with cancer.

He authored several publications and book chapters in the fields of geriatric, breast and thoracic oncology. He is President-Elect of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) and has served as Co-Chair and subsequently Chair of the Young Interest Group of SIOG. He also serves as Co-Chair of the European Cancer Organisation Inequalities Focused Topic Network. He is a member of the Elderly Task Force of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and member of the Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG) Advocacy Committee. Dr Battisti was presented the Arti Hurria Award at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium for his research on the use of chemotherapy in older patients with early breast cancer.

João Gama is a Full Professor at the School of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Porto in 2000. He is EurIA Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and member of the board of directors of the LIAAD, a group belonging to INESC Porto. His h-index at Google Scholar is 60. He is an Editor of several top-level Machine Learning and Data Mining journals. He has been ACM Distinguish Speaker. He served as Program Chair of ECMLPKDD 2005, DS09, ADMA09, EPIA 2017, DSAA 2017, served as Conference Chair of IDA 2011, ECMLPKDD 2015, DSAA’2021, and a series of Workshops on KDDS and Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data with ACM SIGKDD. His main research interests are in knowledge discovery from data streams, evolving data,  probabilistic reasoning, and causality. He published more than 300 reviewed papers in journals and major conferences. He has an extensive list of publications in data stream learning.

Dr. Keno Bressem is a radiology consultant and digital clinician scientist, currently employed at Charité – University Medicine Berlin and working at Mass General Brigham as part of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program (Harvard Medical School). He received his medical degree from Charité – University Medicine Berlin in 2016 and completed his residency in radiology in 2022. After completing his medical training, Dr. Bressem completed his Dr.med. / MD in 2019 and his academic teaching qualification (‘Privatdozent’) in Experimental Radiology in 2021.

Dr. Bressem’s research in the field of artificial intelligence in radiology involves the development of algorithms that can assist clinicians in identifying and diagnosing a variety of conditions related to the pulmonary, urological, and rheumatic systems. Through his work, he seeks to improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency to achieve better patient outcomes.

Andreas Charalambous, BSc, MSc, PGCert (Research), PhD (Oncology Nursing), started his nursing career in 1995. He obtained his BSc in Nursing Science in 1999 by the Northumbria University (U.K), his MSc (Nursing Science) in 2002 and his PhD (Oncology Nursing) in 2008 from Middlesex University (UK). He has a proven track in academia since 2004. Ηe is the Vice-Chair of the Nursing Department at the Cyprus University of Technology where he works as an Associate Professor of Oncology and Palliative Care and he also holds the position of an Adjunct Professor at University of Turku (Finland). He is the founder and Past-President of the Cyprus Oncology Nursing Society, European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) Past-President and President of the European Cancer Organization. He is also the Founder of the Cancer Nursing Fund (https://cancernurse.eu/cancer-nursing-fund/). He is involved in National and International research programs (HORIZON2020, ERASMUS+, COST) in various fields of cancer care. Examples of externally funded projects include: PI in the ERASMUS+ project PROLEPSIS (https://prolepsis.eu/), SAVE (https://www.projectsave.eu/save/) and PI (Cyprus team) in the ERAMUS+ project HERO (https://hero-erasmus.csl.gr/) and eLILY (https://elily.eu/about-the-project/), PI (Cyprus team) in the HORIZON project INCISIVE (https://incisive-project.eu/) and EU4HEALTH project TRANSiTION.

He has published over 200 National and International publications in esteem journals. H-index 35 and i10-index 76.