Valerie Matarese, Ph.D. was born in New York, USA, in 1962. She earned a bachelors of science (B.S.) in 1984 at Cornell University (New York) and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at University of Minnesota in 1990. She worked in basic research in oral microbiology at the University of California at San Francisco (1984-1985), in cell and molecular biology at the Whitehead Institute (1990-1992) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and in molecular pharmacology at GlaxoWellcome Medicines Research Centre in Verona (1993-1998). She is member of: - AIIP Association of Independent Information Professionals - AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science - AIDA Associazione Italiana Documentazione Avanzata (Board member) - MET Mediterranean Editors and Translators - EASE European Science Editors - CSE Council of Science Editors Author of original scientific articles, she is presently principal operator at UpTo.it.

Antonio Bertazzon, M.D. was born in Treviso, a province of Veneto, northern Italy in 1955. He graduated in Medicina e Chirurgia at the Università di Padova (Italy) in 1982. He worked in basic research in biochemistry and biophysics as a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1985-1988) and as a research associate at the University of Minnesota (1988-1992). While at Johns Hopkins he led a workshop on journal article reading for medical students. Presently he works in private practice as a physician and "dabbles" in computer medical art, database and network programming and other advanced computer applications. He is a member of: - Biophysical Society - Society for Neuroscience - EOS European Orthodontics Society - ANTOR Accademia Italiana di Antropometria Orofacciale Author of original scientific articles in "peer-reviewed" journals, he is consultant and principal operator at Up To i.t.