Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, iSm2, F-13013 Marseille, France
Marc Maresca is currently Researcher at the Aix-Marseille Université. He was awarded his PhD in Biochemistry from the Université Paul Cézanne (France, 2003), where he worked on food contaminants termed mycotoxins. In 2003, he moved to England to work on enteropathogenic E. coli in the laboratory of Brendan Keny. He then moved back to France to continue his work on mycotoxins, studying their effects on human health. He is currently working at the Aix-Marseille Université, and his research aims to identify and develop new molecules with antimicrobial properties—natural, synthetic, and bio-inspired. He focuses on antimicrobial peptides and their mimics, as in addition to their antimicrobial effects, they can also be anti-inflammatory and anti-tumorigenic. He has published 52 papers in Q1 journals and 3 patents related to antimicrobial molecules. He also collaborates with food and pharmaceutical industries as a scientific expert and consultant.

Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA, Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
Vladimir Uversky is Professor at the College of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida. He is a biophysicist and obtained his PhD and Doctor of Science (DSc) in Physics and Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1991) and at the Institute Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences (1998), respectively. He spent his early career investigating protein folding at the Institute of Protein Research and the Institute for Biological Instrumentation (Russia). In 1998, he moved to the University of California Santa Cruz to work on protein folding, misfolding, and protein intrinsic disorder. In 2004, he joined the Indiana School of Medicine and, in 2010, the University of South Florida, where he has since been continuing his studies on protein folding, misfolding, and intrinsically disordered proteins. Prof. Vladimir Uversky has authored over 850 scientific publications, edited numerous books, and is also serves as the editor of several scientific journals. He was included in Thomson Reuters’ list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2014–2019.

Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
Prakash Kulkarni, PhD, is currently Research Professor at the Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California. Dr Kulkarni obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from Mangalore University, India, and conducted his postdoctoral training in cell biology at New York University. Subsequently, he has held Staff Scientist positions in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering as well as in the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, and later, in the Department of Genetics at Yale University. Dr Kulkarni began his independent academic career as Assistant Professor of Urology and Oncology in the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he was named the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Scholar of the Patrick C Walsh Prostate Research Fund. He then moved to the Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research at the University of Maryland, where he served as Research Associate Professor, before moving to City of Hope. Dr Kulkarni is an Editorial Board Member of several journals and is also the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Biomolecules. In addition, he is a member of the organizing committee of numerous international meetings and serves as Scientific Expert to various government and philanthropic organizations in the US, Europe, and Australia. In addition to cancer biology, he maintains a strong interest in prostate cancer as well as other solid tumors.