Slade Matthews is a researcher and educator whose career has been marked by his dedication to the intersection of biomedical science and machine learning. He is committed to fostering mathematical literacy among students and has made contributions to both research and education in the field. He holds two teaching awards for university teaching. Recognizing the importance of effective pedagogy, Slade completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2011. He has a Bachelor of Medical Science, Honours (1995) which included an investigation into the venom of the Australian copperhead snake using classical pharmacological bioassays, chromatography, and electrophysiology. His doctoral research (PhD 2007) focussed on the integration of machine learning techniques for cell classification tasks and modelling relationships in clinical data. Slade's primary research focus centres on the fusion of experimental design, statistical analysis, and machine learning to investigate biomedical problems, especially in toxicology. He has published 43 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been cited 1275 times.

Dr Roisin Kelly-Laubscher is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology & Therapeutics at University College Cork, Ireland. She combines expertise in cardiovascular research with leadership in pharmacology education. Her education research focuses on promoting transparency and fairness in assessment to ensure equitable student success, alongside innovations in authentic learning and concept-based curriculum development. She co-leads the international Core Concepts of Pharmacology project within IUPHAR and has published widely on curriculum design, core pharmacological concepts, and epistemological access.