Peter M. Vallone, Ph.D. is a permanent staff scientist at NIST who was awarded the 2008 Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for research and measurement services in the area of human identity testing to support the criminal justice, legal, and disaster recovery communities. Dr. Vallone and a panel of industry experts will be discussing rapid DNA technologies at the International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI) held October 3–6, 2011 in Washington D.C. Visit www.ishi22.com for details.