| Name | Address | EXPERTISE AREA |
1 | 
Renato V. Iozzo | Department of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA | Proteoglycan biology, cancer and angiogenesis |
2 | 
Sylvie Ricard-Blum | University Lyon 1, France | Extracellular matrix interaction networks, matricryptins, glycosaminoglycans, biochemistry, systems biology |
3 | 
John R. Couchman | Dept. Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Biocenter, Copenhagen, Denmark | Cell adhesion, signaling, cytoskeleton and cell surface proteoglycans |
4 | 
Yoshifumi Itoh | The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology University of Oxford Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7FY, UK | Matrix metalloproteinases, Extracellular matrix, Cell invasion/ migration |
5 | 
Liliana Schaefer | Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt/Main, Germany | Extracellular matrix, proteoglycans, biglycan, decorin, signaling, inflammation, sepsis, renal diseases, fibrosis |
6 | 
Elvira V. Grigorieva | Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden | Cancer Glycobiology, Extracellular Matrix, Proteoglycan, Heparan Sulfate biosynthesis |
7 | 
Paraskevi Heldin | Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden | Hyaluronan Biology, Importance of Hyaluronan synthases in cell signaling |
8 | 
Raymond Boot-Handford | Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK | Cartilage, growth plate, collagens, ER stress, mouse models of chondrodysplasia |
9 | 
Stephane Brezillon | Laboratoire de Biochimie Médicale et Biologie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 6237, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Cedex, France | Extracellular Matrix biology, Lumican |
10 | 
Alberto Passi | Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Sperimentali e Cliniche, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy | Extracellular Matrix biology, hyaluronan synthesis |
11 | 
Markku Tammi | Institute of Biomedicine/Anatomy, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland | Hyaluronan biology |
12 | 
Ilona Kovalszky | First Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, H1085 Budapest, Hungary | Oncology, Pathology, Hepatology, Proteoglycans |
13 | 
Ralph D. Sanderson | Dept. of Pathology, Univ. Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA | Heparan sulfate and heparanase in cancer biology and therapy |
14 | 
Martin Götte | Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Muenster University, Medical Center, Muenster, Germany | Proteoglycans, Glycosaminoglycans, microRNA, cancer cell biology |
15 | 
Mauro Pavao | Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Glycobiology, proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans |
16 | Patricia Rousselle
| Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique Department UMR 5305 - CNRS/UCB Lyon 1- SFR BioSciences Gerland-Lyon Sud, France | Cell / ECM interactions, basement membrane, adhesion receptors, syndecans, cytoskeleton, microenvironment |
17 | 
Maurizio Onisto | Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy | Heparanase, cell biology |
18 | 
Daniela G. Seidler | Hannover Medical School, Dept. of Gastroentero-, Hepato- and Endocrinology I3, EB2/R3110, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany | Proteoglycans, Glycosaminoglycan synthetic enzymes |
19 | 
Geir Christensen | Institute for Experimental Medical Research, University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Norway | ECM and Heart failure |
20 | 
Marco Franchi | Faculty of Sciences-University of Bologna, Italy | Ultrastructure of ECM, (SEM) |
21 | 
Dimitris Kletsas | Laboratory of Cell proliferation & Ageing, Institute of Biology, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece | Age-related pathologies, ECM, growth factors, signaling pathways, stress, wound healing, cancer, stem cells and cell replacement therapy |