Prof. Alicia Kowaltowski: MD, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her main research interest is energy metabolism, particularly mitochondrial bioenergetics. She has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers to date, with over 12300 citations (Google Scholar). She is a John Simon Guggenheim Latin American Fellowship recipient, Fellow of the Society for Redox Biology & Medicine, and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, among other distinctions.
Prof. Fernando Abdulkader: BPharm, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research interests focus on mechanisms that couple stimulus to secretion in endocrine cells, particularly the ones that secrete insulin, and on the development of strategies for Physiology education. He has published 28 scientific papers to date, with over 1500 citations (Google Scholar).