Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Ferreira Martinez graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Dentistry in 1999. She received her Master’s degree in Oral Pathology and completed her PhD studies in Sciences (Cell and Tissue Biology) at the University of São Paulo. Afterward, she completed her postdoctoral training at the São Leopoldo Mandic Research Institute. Currently, she holds an academic position at the level of associate professor at the Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the São Leopoldo Mandic Research Institute, teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Recently, she completed a one-year visiting professorship at the University of Florida (College of Dentistry), assessing the impact of microgravity on stem cells. Since 2017, she has received a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian Federal Government. Her main research interests include bone biology related to systemic diseases and medicaments/biomaterials used in dental practice.

André Antonio Pelegrine received his PhD from the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas in 2010. He is a Professor at the Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic. His research interests mainly focus on Tissue Engineering, associated with the in vitro and in vivo study of biomaterials, especially applied to implantology, periodontics, and bone biology.

Prof. Dr. Lexie Shannon Holliday is an Associate Professor at the Department of Orthodontics, University of Florida. He received his Bachelor's degree at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 1985 and completed his PhD studies at the Florida State University in 1990. His main research interests include the activation of osteoclastic bone resorption, extracellular vesicles, the structure, transport, and function of vacuolar H+ ATPase, cytoskeletal dynamics in osteoclasts, and microRNAs and RNA interference in dental physiology and pathophysiology.