Dr. Phillips is the Director of Marketing for the Waters Corporation based in Milford, Massachusetts. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in 1967, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1974.

Elocine St. Vil is a Senior biology major with a minor in cultural anthropology at Northeastern University, Boston. Her current area of research involves using the electrospinning technique to create nanofibers.

Dr. Mary Ondrechen is a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University. She runs a research group in functional genomics and computational chemical biology. Her current research deals exclusively with biomedical problems.