Dr. Mahmoud A. ElSohly is president and laboratory director of ELI. He serves as research professor in the National Center for Development of Natural Products, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Professor of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi. Dr. ElSohly is the director of the Marijuana Project at the University of Mississippi which is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. ElSohly received his B.S. in pharmacy and his M.S. in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and his Ph.D. in pharmacognosy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is board certified by the American Board of Forensic Medicine (BCFM) and the American College of Forensic Examiners (BCFE). Dr. ElSohly holds a number of patents dealing with the processing, testing, and detection of drugs of abuse. He has written over 150 scholarly articles relative to drugs of abuse, and he is constantly in demand as a presenter and speaker at national scientific conferences. He is a member of many scholarly scientific societies and was recognized by The Scientist (April 17, 1995) and Science Watch (January, 1995) as the second-most cited author in forensic sciences in the world for the period 1981-1993.
	Bettye H. Galloway has been with the corporation and the laboratory since its inception and currently serves as the executive vice president. Ms. Galloway attended the University of Mississippi where she served as manager of the university's personnel office and as coordinator of annual giving. Prior to the establishment of ELI, she also served as a test examiner for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as director of the Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation. Ms. Galloway has administrative and supervisory responsibility for the day-to-day operation of ELI including but not limited to personnel, finances, marketing, accounts receivable and payable, and reporting of results.
	Timothy P. Murphy, a graduate of Colby College, was first employed by ELI in 1991. He currently serves as the laboratory manager. Prior to joining ELI, he worked at the Veterans Administration Hospitals in Bedford, Massachusetts, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Since his employment at ELI, Mr. Murphy has participated in a variety of research projects, including development of a cannabis fingerprint and development of analytical methods for detection of drugs of abuse in meconium and other biological specimens, and has co-authored several scientific papers.
	Shixia Feng, research chemist, received a B.S. in chemistry from Shanghai Teachers University and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Mississippi where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. in chemistry. Prior to Mr. Feng's employment with ELI in 1995, he served as visiting research fellow at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and as research associate at the Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research in the People's Republic of China. Mr. Feng performs the primary synthetic work at the lab and oversees other special projects. He has co-authored approximately 10 scientific articles since 1992.