Prof Austin Stack is Foundation Chair of Medicine at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick and consultant nephrologist at University Hospital Limerick, Ireland. His research interests focus on risk factors, complications, and treatment strategies for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI), including anaemia, iron deficiency and hyperuricaemia, and their links with cardiovascular disease. He has published extensively in these areas and is principal investigator for several CKD and AKI studies.

Associate Prof Jimmy Teo is a professor at National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant and Head of the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital. He is also Research Director, and Associate Program Director of the Peritoneal Dialysis Program. His research focuses on the link between retinal blood vessel morphology, kidney function, and biomarkers of kidney injury.