Shanmugamurthy Lakshmanan is a Research Scientist at Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts. His research focuses on connecting nanotechnology with ancient Indian medical technologies namely Siddha and Ayurveda. He is a distinguished Scientific Advisor, Vice-president for International Research and the Direct and Head of Indian Division of Sciences for the World Institute for Scientific Exploration.
Michael R Hamblin is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and the affiliated faculty of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. He directs a laboratory of around 12 scientists who work in photodynamic therapy and low-level light therapy. He has published 274 peer-reviewed articles, is Associate Editor for eight journals and serves on NIH Study-Sections. He has edited 10 proceedings volumes together with four other major textbooks on PDT and photomedicine. In 2011, he was honored by election as a Fellow of SPIE.