Claudiu T. Supuran is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy. His main research interests include medicinal chemistry, design of enzyme inhibitors and activators, X-ray crystallography of metallo-enzymes, and metal complexes with biologically active ligands (metal-based drugs). He has published more than 400 original research papers in these fields.

Jean-Yves Winum is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Montpellier 2 (Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron UMR CNRS 5247), France. His research interests are focused on organic/medicinal chemistry of metallo-enzyme inhibitors and activators.