Authors

Billy Abrams

Billy Abrams has been with Aptar CSP Technologies (Auburn, AL) for 24 years and has worked in operations, program management, and business development. He has worked on probiotic packaging initiatives for over 15 years and has commercialized countless projects utilizing CSP’s Activ-Polymer technology across a range of application fields with major global pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and nutritional supplement companies.

Keith J. Myers
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Keith J. Myers is the founder and editor-in-chief of

Greg Leyer, PhD

Greg Leyer, PhD, has dedicated his professional career to probiotic advancement, making him not only a critical component of UAS Labs (Madison, WI) but a world-renowned expert, educator, and speaker in the field. Greg has authored or co-authored 24 publications in the areas of probiotic clinical results, application know-how, and safety parameters, and he holds patents in the field. He holds an MS and PhD in food microbiology and toxicology, respectively, and is an active member of the International Probiotics Association and the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.

Charlie Brook
Recent : How e-commerce nutrition brands are leveraging User-Generated Content to sell products

Charlie Brook is the Head of Content at

David Heber
Recent : Why soy is the perfect plant protein, says doctor

Dr. David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FASN, is the Chairman of the Herbalife Nutrition Institute (HNI), which promotes excellence in nutrition education for the public and scientific community and sponsors scientific symposia. Heber is the Founding Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles*, where he has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine since 1978. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health and Founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His main research interests are obesity treatment and nutrition for cancer prevention and treatment. Additionally, Heber directed both the National Cancer Institute-funded clinical nutrition research unit and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) nutrition and obesity training grants at UCLA for over 15 years. For five years, he also directed the NIH-funded UCLA Center for Dietary Supplement Research in Botanicals. He is the former Chair of the Medical Nutrition Council of the American Society for Nutrition, the largest scientific society in nutrition. Heber is a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, the highest honor the society confers.* The University of California as a matter of policy does not endorse specific products or services. Heber’s credentials as a professor are for identification purposes only.

Prinova
Karthik Maniam
Recent : Supercritical fluid’s evolving role in dietary ingredients extraction

Karthik Maniam is a director of quality and environmental health safety at Phasex Corp. (North Andover, MA). Maniam is a licensed professional environmental engineer in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts and holds a master’s degree in environmental technology from New York Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in chemical engineering.

Marinova
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Wiley
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Pharmactive
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