Brian Straight, Ph.D., has founded and managed successful life sciences companies. A former entrepreneur -in-residence at the Eli Lilly eLilly division, he has experience in developing technologies for FDA regulated environments, including informatics solutions for pharma, instrument companies, and CROs, as well as in the design and development of technologies for pathogen detection focused on the clinical and food safety markets.

James P. Basilion, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Pathology. Dr. Basilion's work is focused on molecular imaging and on its use in non-invasive imaging of cancer and other diseases. Dr. Basilion is co-director of the Cancer Imaging Program for the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and he directs the NFCR Center for Molecular Imaging.

Dr. Bogyo is Associate Professor, Stanford University Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology. His group studies protease function in mouse models of cancer and human malaria and he has developed a number of valuable new reagents for applications from autoimmune disease to cancer and inflammation imaging. He also lead a group at Celera Genomics for two years, focused on the drug discovery area.