Anastasia Diolintzi is a Dietitian-Nutritionist and Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received an MA in Applied Nutrition and Dietetics, Nutrition and Exercise Discipline from the School of Health Science and Education, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University in 2015 and a Ph.D. in Adipose Tissue Metabolism (Department of Kinesiology and Health, School of Arts and Sciences) from Rutgers University in 2023. She has served as a Marie Curie RISE Early-Stage Researcher at the Harokopio University of Athens (HUA, GR) and Perspectum Diagnostics in Oxford (UK). She worked as a Research Assistant and Dietitian-Nutritionist at the Harokopio University of Athens from 2016 to 2017. During her doctorate at Rutgers University, she served as a Teaching Assistant from September 2017 to June 2023, and she mentored three undergraduate students. As a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSF since August 2023, she has been investigating bone tissue formation and cell–cell interactions within the bone marrow niche and peripheral tissues, employing human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and microfluidic systems. Her research interests have revolved around human metabolism, adipocyte biology, interorgan crosstalk, metabolic disorders (i.e., obesity, diabetes, etc.), stem cells, regenerative medicine, micronutrient interventions in healthy and clinical conditions, gene–diet interactions, and healthy lifestyles.

Mst Shaela Pervin is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has been studying Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) in hiPSCs and mice. In her first postdoctoral study at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio State University, she worked on the generation and characterization of vascular smooth muscle cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). She undertook her Ph.D. in the Department of Functional Molecular Cell Biology at Yamaguchi University, Japan under the supervision of Prof Shigehiko Yumura. She studied the molecular mechanism of wound repair in Dictyostelium cells. Based on the excellent research and publication in Ph.D. She has been selected for the dean’s award of the Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University.

Edward Hsiao is currently a Professor at UCSF in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Institute for Human Genetics. He received his BA magna cum laude in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University. He completed his MD and Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, studying hormone signals in tissue injury and repair. After completing his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins, he went to UCSF for his endocrinology fellowship. His laboratory studies molecular and genetic mechanisms in rare bone diseases, and he directs the UCSF Metabolic Bone Clinic. He is a member of the Endocrine Society and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He actively works with patient support groups through the Fibrous Dysplasia Foundation and International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association, and the International Clinical Council on FOP.