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Bernard Witholt was born in Holland shortly after the Nazi invasion in 1941. His family moved to Brazil after WWII and later immigrated to the United States, where he graduated from Amherst College and received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Bernard spent his professional life in Europe as a faculty member at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and at ETH Zurich, a world-class research university with ties to more than twenty Nobel prizewinners. In 2007, the Dutch royal family recognized Bernard's work with its highest civilian honor, The Order of the Netherlands Lion (De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw), an award given for exceptional achievements in art, science, and literature.
Roger Mills graduated from Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and two years active duty in the U.S. Navy, he completed his training in cardiology at Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His thirty-year clinical career included medical directorship of the heart transplant program at the University of Florida, where he was a professor of medicine, and appointment as a staff cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition to extensive research publications, Roger is the author of Nesiritide:The Rise and Fall of Scios, the Foreword Indies 2016 Bronze Medal winner for science.