Kate Denniston is a biochemist in the Biology Dept. of Towson State University.  At Towson, she has been honored with such awards as the "Outstanding Faculty Award" and the "Faculty Merit Award".  Her previous employment record is literally a list of some of the best biochemistry institutions in the world: Univ. of Wisconsin as a post-doc, Georgetown University School of Medicine  as research professor, National Cancer Institute as a Senior Staff Fellow, the Argonee National laboratory in their research program, and as an Invited Instructor by the European Molecular Biology Organization.  She has written for such noteworthy publications as Nature, Science.