Yousuke Yamaoka is a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Department of Pharmacy at Hyogo Medical University. He received his B.Sc. (2002) and Ph.D. degrees (2007) from Kyoto University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto at Chicago University until 2011.Then, he joined Kyoto University as an assistant professor in 2011. In 2023, he joined the School of Pharmacy and Department of Pharmacy at Hyogo Medical University as a lecturer.

Hideto Miyabe is a professor at the School of Pharmacy and Department of Pharmacy at Hyogo Medical University. He received his B.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. degrees (1996) from Osaka University. He joined Kobe Pharmaceutical University as an assistant professor in 1996. He worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Mukund P. Sibi at North Dakota State University in 2001. He moved to the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, as a Lecturer in 2002 and was promoted to associate professor in 2004. He moved to the School of Pharmacy at Hyogo University of Health Sciences as a professor in 2007. In 2020, he joined the School of Pharmacy and Department of Pharmacy at Hyogo Medical University as a professor.