the Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements
SPDS Meeting, September 22-23 – Chair and Presenter Bios
PRESENTER BIOS
RICHARD B. VAN BREEMEN, PHD, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
Chair, SPDS Resveratrol Working Group
Richard B. van Breemen is the Matthias C Lu Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy
and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the University of
Illinois College of Pharmacy. He serves as Director of the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary
Supplements Research and leads the Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics and Proteomics Facility for the
University of Illinois Cancer Center. Prof. van Breemen received his B.A. in chemistry from Oberlin
College in 1980 and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the Johns Hopkins
University in 1985. He carried out post-doctoral research in laser desorption mass spectrometry at Johns
Hopkins before joining North Carolina State University in 1994 and then the University of Illinois College
of Pharmacy. He is a Regional Editor of Biomedical Chromatography and on the editorial board of Assay
and Drug Development Technologies. Prof. van Breemen has received an Expert Methods Panel award
from the AOAC International for his work on analytical methods for dietary supplements, the Harvey W.
Wiley Award from the AOAC International, and the 2015 Researcher of the Year Award from the
University of Illinois at Chicago. His research concerns the discovery and development of natural
products as chemoprevention agents and the investigation of botanical dietary supplements as
alternatives to hormone therapy for menopausal women.
STEVEN DENTALI
Chair, SPDS Kavalactones Working Group
Steven Dentali, Ph.D., consulting as Dentali Botanical Sciences and widely
considered an international authority on botanical ingredients, previously served as VP and Research
Fellow, Botanical Sciences at Herbalife after eleven years as VP and Chief Science Officer for the
American Herbal Products Association. Dr. Dentali holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, with a
Natural Products Chemistry specialization, from the University of Arizona, where he was the American
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