Gabriela Cezar is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin—Madison where she pioneered the application of metabolomics to stem cell biology. Her research involves human embryonic stem (hES) cells, cancer stem cells and cells derived from hES cells such as neurons, cardiomyocytes and hepatocyte-like cells. In addition, Dr. Cezar heads the Stem Cell Safety Sciences Lab at UW and is a scientific collaborator with WiCell Research Institute.

Dr. Oliver Fiehn is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Genome Center. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the Free University of Berlin, Germany and his Ph.D from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Subsequently, he joined the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, starting the field of plant metabolomics. He has published more than 45 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the board of the directors of the Metabolomics Society, and member of the editorial boards of several journals, among them the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Fiehn’s main research field is the mass spectrometry and its use for metabolite analysis, in conjunction with bioinformatics approaches to utilize metabolic data for plant and animal research.

Dr. Myla P. Lai-Goldman retired from her position as Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer of Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) in January 2009. She joined LabCorp in 1990. During her tenure at LabCorp, Dr. Lai-Goldman managed LabCorp's National Office of Quality and Science through which she was responsible for all quality, science and medical activities for LabCorp and its subsidiaries. Dr. Lai-Goldman was previously responsible for R & D and managing the operations of the Company’s Center for Molecular Biology and Pathology in Research Triangle Park, NC; National Genetics Institute, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA; and ViroMed Laboratories, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Lai-Goldman earned an MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York, and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at St Luke’s Hospital in New York, anatomic and clinical pathology at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences, and hematopathology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology.

Dr. Minesh Mehta is a professor of human oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the School of Medicine and Public Health. He has advised several pharmaceutical corporations regarding product development, especially in the context of combining therapies with radiation therapy.

Dr. G. Sitta Sittampalam is the Deputy Director of the Office of Therapeutics & Drug Development at the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Center. He has expertise in bio-analytical techniques, quantitative biology, molecular pharmacology and leading-edge high throughput screening technologies. For over 23 years he worked for Eli Lilly & Company in drug discovery and development.