Maya Sapiurka, PhD, is a scientific and technical writer at the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). She received her PhD in neuroscience from UCSD in 2016, where she worked with Robert E. Clark and Larry Squire. Sapiurkaalso worked as a scientific training associate and training manager at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) from 2016-2022 before serving as the associate director for administration at Georgetown University's Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. Prior to joining USP in April 2025, she worked as a science writer and analyst at Rose Li and Associates.

William Mills, PhD, is an assistant professor of biology at Mount St. Mary's University exploring novel roles of microRNAs in regulating post-transcriptional gene regulation using molecular biology and bioinformatics. Mills completed undergraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Virginia and graduate training in biological chemistry in the lab of Mollie Meffert at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has taught undergraduate and graduate STEM courses for seven years.