John Vissing is professor of Neurology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Director of the Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center at the National Hospital, Rigshospitalet, in Copenhagen since 1998.

He graduated in 1986 as MD from the University of Copenhagen and was then a research fellow at University of Copenhagen and UT, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA. His research focuses on hereditary muscle diseases and myasthenia gravis. He has authored 490 scientific papers on neuromuscular diseases.

Sven Meuth is a Professor at Department of Neurology, Institute of Translational Neurology and Neurology Clinic at the University of Münster since 2010. His scientific interests include the investigation of animal models of autoimmune inflammation, ion channels in inflammation and degeneration and neuroimmune interaction.

For his scientific work on the functional expression of ion channels on T cells, Professor Meuth received the Helmut-Bauer-Award from the University of Göttingen in 2009 and the Sobek-Young-Investigator-Award in 2010.

Professor Meuth studied human medicine and neurobiology at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany, and received his PhD titles in 2005 (Dr. med.) and 2007 (Dr. rer. nat.) at the associated Institute of Physiology. He began his specialization in neurology at the Neurological University Würzburg in 2004 and was appointed as full professor at the Clinic of Neurology associated with the University of Münster in 2010.