Dr. Lebrilla is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and in Molecular Medicine at its School of Medicine. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and was the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and NSF/NATO Fellow at the Technical University in Berlin. His research focuses on developing bioanalytical methods based on mass spectrometry with the goals of structurally characterizing bioactives in food and determining their relationships to health and diseases. Dr. Lebrilla is one of the world’s most “Highly Cited Researchers” as determined by the Web of Science Group.He has co-founded several successful biotech companies focusing on bioactive foods and biomarkers for early disease diagnosis.