Leo Furcht, MD , is Allan-Pardee professor and chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. A former president of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, he holds several key patents in the stem cell field. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
William Hoffman has been a writer and editor in the University of Minnesota Medical School for over twenty-five years and has created a series of Web-based global bioscience maps that show how competition in science and business affects ethics, policymaking, and economic development. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.