Dr. Aw completed medical studies at the University of Malaya in Malaysia and trained in internal medicine at the Singapore General Hospital. He obtained specialist certifications in Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Royal College of Physicians UK. He underwent further training in Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA and is certified in Chemical Pathology by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. He completed a Harvard-NUS Masters in Public Policy from the NUS school of public policy. Currently, he is Director (Chemical Pathology) at Changi General Hospital, Adjunct Professor (Pathology) at Duke-NUS Medical School and Clinical Senior Lecturer (Medicine) at NUS medical school. He was a faculty member of NUS medical school from 1980-2006 rising in rank to Professor (Pathology) and Vice-Dean of the medical school. He was Chief (Laboratory Medicine) of the National University Hospital and Medical Director of Alexandra Hospital. He was Professor (Chemical Pathology) at Monash University Medical School (Malaysia campus) and Hon. Professor (Medicine) at its Australia campus (2006-2011). He has published widely, delivered many lectures in 25 countries, and received several distinguished awards. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including Nature Scientific Reports.

Dr Beatus Ofenloch-Haehnle currently heads the R&D Heterogeneous Assay Development and System Integration in Roche Diagnostics, Penzberg, Germany. He graduated with Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Eberhard-Karls University Tuebingen, Germany in 1988 and has since led various R&D groups in Boehringer Mannheim and Roche Diagnostics. He has many publications of his work on hepatitis and immunoassay development.