their colleagues. Dr. Wu is a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Dr. Prentice is a Professor of Biomedical Science in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Dr. Wu has published more than 300 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, among others. He has made a great impact in biomedical sciences, particularly in basic and translational neuroscience, and is recognized as one of the most cited scientists in the world identified by Current Contents/ISI (2002). In translational neuroscience, Dr. Wu and his team have developed several mechanism-based treatments for neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s disease, Ischemic Stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and Epilepsy. His inventions are quite novel and several patents have been awarded to him and his team. Dr. Prentice has over 70 publications in numerous journals including PNAS, EMBO Journal, Cell, Molecular Neurobiology, and Molecular and Cell Biology. Dr. Prentice’s principal research interests are in tissue hypoxia and ischemia and in molecular pathways of neuroprotection in stroke therapy.