Dr. Gregg B. Fields received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Florida and Florida State University, respectively, followed by a Postdoctoral Scholar appointment at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Fields was an Assistant (1991) and Associate (1995) Professor at the University of Minnesota, Full Professor (1997) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and a Robert A. Welch Foundation Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry (2008) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Fields relocated to the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies in 2011, where he was the Distinguished Chair of Metalloproteinase and Multiple Sclerosis Research. Dr. Fields rejoined FAU in 2014, first as Chair in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, then as Executive Director of the Institute for Human Health & Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH) (2019), and presently as Interim Vice President of Research. He is also Co-Director of the Memorial Cancer Institute Florida Atlantic University Cancer Center of Excellence. Dr. Fields is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has authored or coauthored >300 scientific publications and has presented >190 invited lectures.