BERNICE SCHACTER Ph.D., has over 25 years of biomedical research experience in both academia and industry. She served on the faculty of the School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and conducted immunology research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. She also served as Vice President of Research at BioTransplant, Inc., a biotechnology startup company in Boston, MA. She has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a co-inventor on four issued patents. Since 1994 she has been a biomedical consultant and writer. She has taught immunology to undergraduate, graduate, and