Supported by a secretariat in the Research Directorate-General, the European Group on Life Sciences numbers 13 members, chosen for their eminence in the life sciences and related applications, their public standing and credibility, and their ability to share their knowledge with non-experts. Here is a brief presentation of the EGLS members.

• Professor Victor DE LORENZO
  President of the EGLS
  Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain
  
  
• Professor Anne McLAREN
  Wellcome CRC Institute, United Kingdom
  
  
• Professor Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
  Genetics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology,Germany
  
  
• Professor Derek BURKE
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Professor Patrick CUNNINGHAM
  Trinity College, Ireland
  
  
• Professor Leonardo SANTI
  Italian National Committee for Biosafety and Biotechnology (CNBB)
  
  
• Professor Marc VAN MONTAGU
  Ghent University, Belgium
  
  
• Professor Hans WIGZELL
  Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  
  
• Professor Ernst-Ludwig WINNACKER
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
  
  
• Professor Jan H. van Bemmel
  Erasmus University, The Netherlands
  
  
• Professor Ladislav KOVAC
  Comenius University, Slovakia
  
  
• Professor Philippe KOURILSKY
  Pasteur Institute, France
  
  
• Dr Nadia A. ROSENTHAL
  European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Italy