Dr Smith is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology. She earned a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical and public health microbiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York.

Dr Kelly Chun is vice president and scientific director of Esoterix/Endocrine Sciences, a Labcorp specialty laboratory. With over 20 years of protein science and assay development experience, Dr Chun oversees a complex, high-throughput endocrine reference laboratory while leading research and development activities.

Dr Hyland graduated from Brunel University, London, England in 1976. He received his PhD in biochemistry from Brunel in 1980. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Paris, France and at the Institute of Child Health in London England, 2000-2006. He held the title of Lecturer in Biochemistry at London University 1987-1989. From 1989 to 1995 he was Senior Research Scientist at the Baylor Research Institute in Dallas, Texas.

Dr Walker is a diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry in toxicological chemistry and a fellow of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. She has an undergraduate degree in medical technology from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacokinetics.

Dr Volpe graduated from Duke University in 2008 with PhD in computational biology and bioinformatics, with a concentration in immunology. His research involved developing a software algorithm to decipher the germline origins of human immunoglobulin and T-cell receptors and then using that software to analyze large data sets of human antibodies to understand their diversity. He received the American Association of Immunologists-Huang Foundation Young Investigator Award in 2007 for his work in anti-HIV antibody composition.