Jan Lubinski is a Professor of Medicine and Head of the International Hereditary Cancer Center (organized in 1992) of Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland. The center conducted the first world-wide population screening for cancer family syndromes in a 1.7 million region of West-Pomerania, Poland in 2000-2001. It has a network of outpatient clinics covering almost the entire country as well as a cancer bio-bank with biological samples and clinical data from 250,000 cancer cases and appropriate controls, which includes registries of thousands of mutation carriers.
Rodney J. Scott graduated from the University of Western Australia, Australia with a PhD in cellular biology and subsequently worked in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas in Houston and then at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Since 1999 Prof. Scott has been a visiting Professor at the International Hereditary Cancer Center in Szczecin, Poland and more recently has been appointed as a adjunct Professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.