Michael Hehenberger  IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, Route 100, Building 3, Room 1J21, Somers, New York 10589 (hehenbemus.ibm.com). Dr. Hehenberger leads the development and implementation of IBM's global life sciences and biopharmaceutical solutions for the “Life Sciences Transformation” business segment. As part of the IBM Life Sciences initiative, he initially worked on data and knowledge management solutions for biopharmaceutical research and development. More recently, he has specialized in the integration and analysis of information related to chemical, biological, and clinical (patient) databases and on biomedical informatics, in particular clinical genomics, pharmacogenomics, and biomedical and molecular imaging. His current focus is on a broad range of life sciences solutions, including information systems supporting biomarker-based development of new medical treatments. Dr. Hehenberger holds advanced degrees in physics from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. degrees in quantum chemistry from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Avijit Chatterjee  IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, Route 100, Building 1, Room 1J24, Somers, New York 10589 (achatterus.ibm.com). Dr. Chatterjee is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM HealthCare and Life Sciences Solutions Development organization. He is currently the lead architect of the information-based medicine solution for pharmacogenomics. Before joining the Life Sciences organization in 2001, he worked in IBM Global Services as a certified consultant, spending over seven years as a data-mining consultant. He has also worked as a lead architect, designing portals and other text-mining solutions. Dr. Chatterjee has a broad background in knowledge management and business intelligence, with expertise in data and text mining as well as visualization. He played an instrumental role in leading the launch of two IBM software products for which he has filed six patents; he has also won an Outstanding Technical Achievement award for his leadership on the collaboration technology, InsightLink. He has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Southern California.

Usha Reddy  IBM Software Services, Health Care and Life Sciences Industry Solutions, 89 Schreiner Drive, North Wales, Pennsylvania 19454 (ushareddyus.ibm.com). Dr. Reddy is a Senior Scientist working with the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Solutions team. Her focus for the past five years has been in the area of health care, clinical genomics, and life sciences discovery. She has played a leading role in various genomic projects within the medical research industry. Before this, Dr. Reddy spent several years in academia as a postdoctoral fellow and research faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. Her major areas of expertise are molecular biology, biochemistry, neurobiology, and bioinformatics. She has a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Hyderabad, India, and an M.S degree in bioinformatics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joyce Hernandez  Merck and Company, Incorporated, 126 Lincoln Avenue, Mail stop: RY84-24, Rahway, New Jersey 07065-0900 (joyce_hernandezmerck.com). Dr. Hernandez is a senior architect specializing in providing clients with business intelligence solutions, aligning the business initiatives of the enterprise with the data warehouse infrastructure through a combination of decision support information and technology. She is widely recognized for her skills in business discovery, decision support, and data design, with a focus on performance measurements and organizational factors that are essential to an effective solution. She has implemented solutions in the health care, social services, manufacturing, and transportation industries. Her most recent projects have involved work with the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry in the development of clinical trial standards to position the regulatory agency's ability to develop a data warehouse. Dr. Hernandez has also worked with the FDA to develop a scalable data warehouse design to store current submission data and meet future needs.

Jörg Sprengel  IBM Sales and Distribution, IBM Switzerland, Schwarzwaldallee 215, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland (j.sprengelch.ibm.com). Dr. Sprengel is the global research and development client manager for the integrated account of a large pharma company. Over the past 10 years, he has held different positions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry, where he faced the challenging task of bridging the chasm between IT, science, and the business of drug discovery. He joined IBM in 2004. Recently, Dr. Sprengel has been involved with imaging technologies, their application, and their integration into the research and development process. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cologne, Germany for performing the computational analysis of the human adenovirus type 12 genome.