Dr. Barbara M. Alving is the Director of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at the National Institutes of Health. NCRR provides laboratory scientists and clinical researchers with the environments and tools they need to understand, detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of common and rare diseases.

Dr. Alving earned her medical degree cum laude from Georgetown University School of Medicine, where she also completed an internship in internal medicine. She received her residency training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in hematology. Dr. Alving then became a research investigator in the Division of Blood and Blood Products at the Food and Drug Administration. In 1980, she joined the Department of Hematology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and became Chief of the Department in 1992. She left the Army at the rank of Colonel in 1996 to become the Director of the Medical Oncology/Hematology section at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. In 1999, she joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), serving as the Director of the extramural Division of Blood Diseases and Resources until becoming the Deputy Director of the Institute in September 2001. From September 2003 until February 1, 2005, she served as the Acting Director of NHLBI. In March 2005 she became the Acting Director of NCRR and was named Director in April 2007.

Dr. Alving is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, a Master in the American College of Physicians, a former member of the subcommittee on Hematology of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a previous member of the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee. She is a co-inventor on two patents, has edited three books, and has published more than 100 papers in the areas of thrombosis and hemostasis.

Sandy K. Baruah has served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Administration since 2005. Baruah is a senior member of the Bush Administration's economic team, leads the Federal Economic Development Administration and serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Commerce on domestic economic development matters. Baruah serves as Co-Vice Chairman of the President's Economic Adjustment Committee, is an executive member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and leads the U.S. Government delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Territorial Development Policy Committee. Baruah has served in various roles in the Commerce Department and has worked as a corporate mergers and acquisitions management consultant working with large financial services firms.

Prior to joining The Pfizer Incubator, Benedyk was Vice President of Business Development at Ascenta Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel, pro-apoptotic small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. There he managed the patent estate for the company, led all contract and licensing negotiations for Ascenta, and was part of the executive team that secured $50 million for Ascenta's Series C financing.

Before coming to Ascenta, Benedyk was Vice President of Business Development and Director of Optimer Biotechnology, an international biotechnology subsidiary of Optimer Pharmaceuticals, with operations in the U.S., Singapore and Taiwan . While there, he managed the patent estate for the company, licensed prulifloxacin, a fluoroquinoline antibiotic from Nippon Shinyaku in Japan, led business development activities for Optimer Biotechnology in Singapore, and was part of the executive team that raised $22 million for the Series C&D financing rounds for Optimer prior to its successful IPO in February of 2007.

Previously, Benedyk held business development positions at rila bioconsulting, Farmal Biomedicines, Aurora Biosciences (now Vertex Pharmaceuticals), Élan Pharmaceuticals, and Argonex Corporation. During his tenure in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, Benedyk has personally led transactions worth over $300 million and participated in over $500 million worth of product licensing, corporate acquisition and fundraising transactions. Benedyk received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Developmental Biology from The Rockefeller University, where he was a Lucille P. Markey Graduate Fellow. He received his B.S. in Microbiology and Botany from the University of Michigan.

Since 1998, Bowman has been Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Delaware Technology Park, Inc., (DTP) a collaboration of the State of Delaware, University of Delaware and high technology industries, such as advanced materials, life sciences, and information technology.

From 1990 to 1986, Bowman was Vice President & General Manager for DuPont Advanced Materials and Systems, a one billion-dollar global business unit with 2,500 employees. His 30-year career at DuPoint included professional and managerial roles in research, marketing, and manufacturing. Currently, Bowman serves as a Board member on five technology-based companies, First State Innovation, Delaware Science and Technology Council, UD Technology Corporation, and is a member of the nation Council on Competitiveness. Bowman holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and attended graduate business and financial programs at Wharton and Columbia. In 2000, he was presented the UC Distinguished Alumnus Award.

In 2005, DTP was recognized as Outstanding Research Park of the Year for the nation. The 40-acre park is home to 54 companies, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), 750 employees and graduated 20 spin-out companies. DTP and DBI have had a direct role in the creation of nearly 15,000 jobs in Delaware over the last 10 years.

Ciruzzi has served as Senior Vice President, Construction and Development of Alexandria since June 2000. Ciruzzi previously served as a Vice President from September 1996 to June 2000 and was an active participant in the Company's Initial Public Offering (IPO) in May of 1997. Since Alexandria's IPO, Ciruzzi has been responsible for the Company's domestic and international construction and development operations and services platform and has overseen the management of entitlements, design, permits, development, construction and completion of nearly 6 million square feet of complex life science and specialized high technology ground-up, redevelopment and tenant improvement projects on behalf of the Company. In 1993, Ciruzzi founded a real estate development and consulting business, which provided consulting services to Alexandria from September 1995 until his appointment as Vice President of the Company. From 1986 to 1993, Ciruzzi served as Project Manager for Home Capital Development Group, a real estate development company, where he specialized in project management of master planned communities, including the management of a 2,600-acre mixed-use community, as well as other real estate development opportunities. Ciruzzi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Southern California. Ciruzzi is in the process of obtaining his certification as a LEED® Accredited Professional.

Coyle, AIA, LEED® AP is an Associate Principal with Cannon Design. Throughout his 20-year career, Coyle has been responsible for the programming and design of large, complex projects-ranging from corporate, retail and healthcare facilities to entertainment venues and buildings for academic study and scientific research. His practice approach encourages collaboration and partnership and his experience has provided a unique insight into human behavior patterns relating to movement, gathering, and workplace interaction. Mr. Coyle holds a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Design from North Carolina State University and a Masters Degree in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Arthur B. Ellis joined the University of California San Diego as Vice Chancellor for Research in 2006. From 2002-2006, he served as the director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Chemistry. Prior to that, Ellis served as a faculty member of the Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Marye Anne Fox, a world-renowned chemist, is the 7th Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Before her current appointment, she served as North Carolina State University's 12th Chancellor, as Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at NC State (from 1998 to 2004) and as Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry and Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Fox was born in Canton, Ohio in 1947 and received her B.S. from Notre Dame College and her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, both in Chemistry. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland, she joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. She has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association of Advancement of Science.

Greg Horowitt is the co-founder and Executive Director of Global CONNECT. Horowitt managed sales at a Berkshire Hathaway company for nearly 20 years, served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at a leading venture capital firm, and was the CEO of a venture-backed enterprise software company. At Global CONNECT, Greg led the development of a network connecting startup companies to global markets, investors, and customers. Global CONNECT grew under Horowitt's leadership to encompass 20 nations and 40 cities, including England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, France, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Global CONNECT helps to facilitate and accelerate global technology commercialization by bridging the networks encompassing university and private research, global trade organizations, capital providers, entrepreneurs, and business services.

Kossan is Assistant Vice Chancellor, Real Estate, and Executive Director of he University of California San Diego (UCSD) Science Research Park where she has been responsible for real property acquisitions and divestitures, ground leasing, on and off-campus leases, licenses, easements, and asset management for UCSD's primarily non-academic real estate portfolio. She serves as consultant and advisor to the UC San Diego Foundation in matters related to gift and bequest real estate. Her responsibilities include development of the 30-acre science research park for UCSD's research partners, and ground leasing for the development of a conference center hotel complex. Her interests lie in the interface between institutional real estate and research and technology and healthcare including the development of "virtual" research parks. Kossan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology and a Doctorate degree in psychology from Stanford University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow.

Locke, PE, founder and partner of IBE Consulting Engineers, has more than 28 years of experience providing mechanical and building engineering design for a wide range of projects, including museums, libraries, laboratories, hospitals, schools, corporate office buildings, and entertainment facilities. In 1999, he founded IBE with the belief that the engineering components should be fully integrated into the architectural design of a building in order to create innovative solutions and add value to each project. Previously, Locke served as the Managing Principal of Arup in Los Angeles, completing more than 100 projects while being responsible for overall office operations.

Locke received his B.Sc. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Napier University of Commerce and Technology in Edinburgh, Scotland and his M.Sc. in Fuel Technology from Middlesex University in London, England. Currently, Alan is an adjunct professor of Climatology and Environmental Control Systems at UCLA and has taught engineering design and construction practice to architectural students at UCLA, USC and SCI-ARC for the past 10 years.

Rosibel Ochoa is the Acting Executive Director of the von Liebig Center at UCSD. Prior to joining the Center, she founded TekDome, LLC., a technology commercialization consultancy in San Diego. She spent four years at Georgia Tech, where she served as the Associate Director of the Office of Technology Licensing and the Manager of the Industrial Contracts Group. Previous employers include Motorola’s Energy Systems Group and MeadWestvaco. Ochoa received her B.Sc. from the National University of Honduras, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville.

Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.

As founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (1985) and the National Computational Science Alliance (1997), Smarr has driven major contributions to the development of the national information infrastructure: the Internet, the Web, the emerging Grid, collaboratories, and scientific visualization. His views have been quoted in Science, Nature, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, and Business Week, and he gives frequent keynote addresses at professional conferences and to popular audiences.

Smarr received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and conducted observational, theoretical, and computational based astrophysical sciences research for fifteen years before becoming Director of NCSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990 he received the Franklin Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Gold Medal for Leadership in Science or Technology.

He was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and serves on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA Advisory Council. He served as chair of NASA's Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee and was the first chair of the newly formed NASA Science Advisory Council.