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John Price, PhD

Chief Scientist

John Price is a physicist and engineer with decades of experience developing scientific and industrial instrumentation. Among other achievements, he led the team that invented the picoSpin nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers and oversaw the sale of picoSpin LLC to Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2013. John has directed more than 25 federally funded scientific projects and has published numerous scientific papers. He is currently a professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been a Fellow of the Sloan Foundation and the Packard Foundation, an ONR Naval Young Investigator, and an NSF Presidential Young Investigator. In 2004 John was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He holds a PhD in physics from Stanford University and a BS in physics from Yale University (magna cum laude).


Liz Marr, MS, RD, FAND

Food and Nutrition Science Consultant
Director of Business Operations

A Registered Dietitian and Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), Liz Marr is a senior food and nutrition science consultant and writer. From 2008-2018 she headed up Liz Marr and Associates, a food and nutrition consulting firm. From 2000-2008, Liz was a co-founder and principal of Marr Barr Communications, a full-service marketing agency. Prior she worked in marketing communications and regulatory affairs with Horizon Organic Dairy and Western Dairy Council. Liz is a past chair of the Food and Culinary Professionals Dietetic Practice Group, and Nutrition and Food Science Section of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. For nine years, she served as a media spokesperson for AND, logging over 1,000 media interviews. Liz holds an MS in food science and human nutrition from Colorado State University and a BSHE (cum laude) in clothing and textiles from University of Missouri, Columbia.


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