Grace Liejun Guo {#s0005}
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Associate Prof. Grace Liejun Guo is a tenured faculty in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Pharmacy at the Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA.

Dr. Guo graduated from the West China University of Medical Sciences in 1993. In 1997, Dr. Guo obtained a MS degree in Immunology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, in 2001, a Ph.D. degree in Toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and from 2001 to 2004, the post-doctoral training at the NCI, NIH. Dr. Guo has been a tenured faculty at the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at the University of Kansas Medical Center (2004--2012), and a tenured faculty at the Rutgers University (2012--present).

For the last two decades, Dr. Guo has determinedseveral scientific societies, scientific reviewer for the US and Italian NIH and private foundations, editorial board member and ad hoc manuscript reviewers for numerous prestigious journals, and invited speakers for national and international lectures and meetings.

Huiping Zhou {#s0010}
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Dr. Huiping Zhou received the BS and MS degrees from China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China and a Ph.D. from University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. After one year of postdoctoral training at the College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Dr. Zhou was recruited to the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University as a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology Division. Currently, Dr. Zhou is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Dr. Zhou has more than 20 years׳