Jeremy M. Berg received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Standford (where he did research with Keith Hodgson and Lubert Stryer) and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard with Richard Holm. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Carl Pabo in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins from 1986 to 1990. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as Professor and Director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, where he remained until 2003. In 2003, he became the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. He is recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1994), the Eli Lilly Award for Fundamental Research in Biological Chemistry (1995), the Maryland OUtstanding Young Scientist of the Year (1995), and the Harrison Howe Award (1997). While at Johns Hopkins, he received the W.Barry Wood Teaching Award (selected by medical students as award recipient), the Graduate Student Teaching Award, and the Professor's Teaching Award for the Preclinical Sciences. He is coauthor, with Stephen Lippard, of the textbook Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry.

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Lubert Stryer is Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus, in the School of Medicine and Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Standford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1976. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Professor Stryer has received many awards for his research on the interplay of light and life, including the Eli Lilly Award for Fundamental Research in Biological Chemistry and the Distinguished Inventors Award of the Intellectual Property Owners' Association. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984. He currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Boards of two biotechnology companies - Affymax, Inc., and Senomyx, Inc. - and serves on the Board of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. The publication of his first edition of Biochemistry in 1975 transformed the teaching of biochemistry.