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