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Confirmed speakers and chairs

Note: * Nobel laureates
*Barry Sharpless: American chemist at The Scripps Research Institute, inventor of click chemistry reactions; awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for his work in chiral catalytic oxidation reactions; and again received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
*Sir Greg Winter: Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate in 2018. Professor at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society, expert in the field of antibody engineering, harnessing protein engineering techniques to develop biopharmaceuticals, 
*Stefan Hell: Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate in 2014. German expert in optical microscopy at the Max Planck Institute. 
*Tim Hunt: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 2001. Fellow of the Royal Society, British biologist, expert in cancer and cell cycle research. 
Sir Alan Fersht: Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, authority on protein folding and structure, researcher of tumor-related proteins.
Robert Langer, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Engineering and US National Academy of Medicine. The expert in bioengineering and drug delivery technology, MIT Institute Professor, pioneer in new biomaterial design.
Jens Nielsen: Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of Engineering. Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Medicine. Director of the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen, expert in metabolic engineering.
Philip Ball: Renowned British science writer and historian of science, former Nature Editor of >20 years.
Feng Zhang: Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine. Scientist at MIT and Broad Institute in the United States, pioneer and major contributor to CRISPR gene-editing technology.
Ed Boyden: Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, American neuroengineer at MIT, inventor of expansion microscopy.
Josiah “Jody” Rich: Member of the US National Academy of Medicine, American public health scholar at Brown University, expert in opioid dependency and HIV/AIDS.
William DeGrado: Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, expert in drug design and synthesis at the University of California, San Francisco.
Saul Griffith: MacArthur Fellow, Founder of Otherlab in the United States, expert in clean energy, materials scientist, inventor and climate change.
Joi Ito, President: Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, media artist, and investor.
Reiko Kuroda: Foreign Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2013 L’Oreal UNESCO Award winner, Japanese biologist at Chubu University, changed the coiling direction of snails using CRISPR/Cas9. Former Science Advisor for 4 Japanese Prime Ministers. 
Daniela Rhodes: Fellow of the Royal Society.  Winner of the 2023 World Laureate Award-Shanghai. MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. 
Christina Moberg,: Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. Professor of KTH Royal Institute of Technology. 
Yang Huanming: Founder of BGI, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, of the US National Academy of Sciences. 
Nancy Ip: President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, of the US National Academy of Sciences. 
Zhao Bowen: The youngest MIT TR35 at age 21, former Group Leader of BGI at age of 18, Founder of Quantihealth, expert in microbiomics.
Zhang Shuguang: Board Member of Molecular Frontiers Foundation. Foreign Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences and European Academy of Sciences and Arts.  Inventor of the self-assembling peptides and protein design QTY code, MIT since 1988, PI since 1997, and at the MIT Media Lab since 2012.
Bengt Nordén: Founding Chairman and Board Member of Molecular Frontiers Foundation. Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. Renowned professor focused on physical chemistry, particularly in molecular and structural biology, at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Karin Markides: Chairman of Molecular Frontiers Foundation. Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Former president of Chalmers University of Technology, Current President of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. She made significant contributions to analytical chemistry and science policy.
Erling Norrby: Board Member of Molecular Frontiers Foundation, Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Former Secretary General of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Swedish historian for Nobel Prizes in Physiology and Medicine. 
Astrid Gräslund: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University.
Mikael Akke: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Board member of Molecular Frontiers Foundation, Lund University
Piero Baglioni: Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Molecular Frontiers Foundation. Professor at the University of Florence, Italy, distinguished researcher in the field of colloids and surface chemistry, focused on the science of cultural heritage conservation.
Lorie Karnath: President and Board member of the Molecular Frontiers Foundation, writer, explorer, former President of the Explorers Club, Next Breath, Managing Editor of Molecular Frontiers Journal and dedicated to scientific communication.
Magdalena Eriksson: Board Member of Molecular Frontiers Foundation, from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Per Thorén: Member of Molecular Frontiers Foundation Educational Board, from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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