Farhad Parhami was trained as an Experimental Pathologist in the Department of Pathology at UCLA. His training and experience include molecular and cellular biology, lipid metabolism, inflammation, and bone and vascular biology. In 1996 he obtained a faculty position and currently holds the title of Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Medicine at UCLA.

Michael Jung is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA. He received his BA from Rice University in 1969 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973, both in Chemistry. After a one-year NATO Postdoctoral fellowship at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, he started his career at UCLA in 1974. He is an expert in synthetic organic chemistry and especially synthetic medicinal chemistry.

William Matsui is Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his A.B. from Harvard in Biochemistry in 1989, and his M.D. in 1995 from UCSF School of Medicine. He completed residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle and clinical fellowship in Oncology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Matsui is an expert in the development of novel therapeutics in oncology.