Bing Yan received his Ph.D. from Columbia University with Koji Nakanishi in 1990. He is a faculty member at the Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and an adjunct professor at Shandong University.

Bin Zhang received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry at Saarland University (Germany) with Professor Doctor Horst P. Beck in 2003. He is an associate professor of analytical chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shandong University, China.