• Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at UCLA
• 2004 Nagoya Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry 2007 Appointed Knight Bachelor by HM Queen Elizabeth II
• 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science 2007 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemisttry
• 2007 Albert Einstein World Prize in science 2007 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
• 2008 American Chemical Society Arthur C Cope Award Co-inventor of nanovalved mesoporous silica

Timothy J. Deming, PhD

• Professor in Bioengineering and Chemistry Departments at UCLA
• Chair of the Bioengineering Department and Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program at UCLA

Thomas G. Mason, PhD

• Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry (UCLA)
• Professor of Physics and Astronomy (UCLA)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Branch Founder and Manager of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
• (ICAM) at UCLA
  

Paul Pearson, PhD

• President & CEO, Pearson Pharma Partneres
• VP Global Head Pharmacokinetcs and Drug Metabolism, Amgen, Inc.
• Executive Director Preclinical Drug Metabolism, Merck and Co, Inc.
• Director, Drug Metabolism, Pharmacia and Upjohn Co.

Susan Hershenson, PhD

• President Pharmaceutical Transformations, LLC
• VP, Pharmaceutical and Device Development at Genentech
• VP, Pharmaceutics at Amgen
  

Fuyuhiko Tamanoi, PhD

• Professor and Vice Chair of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA
• Director of the Signal Transduction Program
• Director of Research at CNSI, UCLA
  

Katie Rodan, MD

• Practicing medical, surgical, and cosmetic dermatologist
• Co-developer of Proactiv Solution (worlds largest acne treatment product line)
• Dermatology adviser for Estee-Lauder
• Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine

Michael Bevilacqua, MD, PhD

• CEO of Amicrobe, Inc.
• Former Vice President of Amgen
• Former Howard Hughes Investigator and Faculty at University of California, San Diego
• Former faculty member at Harvard Medical School
• Former faculty member, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Woman's Hospital

David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN

• Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Professor of Medicine and Public Health
• Founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine
• Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition at UCLA

Marcus Horwitz, MD

• Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Former Epidemic Intelligence Officer at the CDC
• Former faculty of The Rockefeller University as an Assistant Professor and Associate Physician
• Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA
• Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America
• Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation

Frank Litvack,   MD

• Founding Managing Partner, Reprise Partners, a venture development Co. focused on medical devices and life sciences
• Former Co-director at the Cardiovascular Intervention Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
• Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine
• Board certified in three specialties: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology
• Co-authored 100+ research articles and chapters
• Inductee in the NASA Space Technology Hall of Fame for his work translating laser technology from the Jet Propulsion Laboratories into the clinic.
• Founder of Progressive Angioplasty Systems, sold to United States Surgical in 1997
• Founder of Savacor, sold to St. Jude Medical in 2005
• Founder of Conor Medsystems, sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2007 for $1.4 billion

Richard Stead, MD

• Founder and Principal BioPharma Consulting Services
• 1st physician recruited by Amgen Inc.
• VP Clinical Research and Development, Immunex Inc.