Lijie Grace Zhang is assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Medicine at the George Washington University, USA. She is also director of the Bioengineering Laboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering at the university.

Ali Khademhosseini is associate professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School as well as associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA. He is also junior principal investigator at the World Premier International-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, where he directs a satellite laboratory.

Thomas J. Webster is department chair of chemical engineering at Northeastern University, USA. His research explores the use of nanotechnology in numerous applications.