Meet Our Top Docs

Dr. Carl Hastings

Reliv Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer

• Ph.D. in Food Science from University of Illinois
• Nearly 40 years in food product research and development
• Conducted key research on nutritional food products and developed low-calorie foods marketed under the Weight Watchers label for Mead Johnson & Co.
• Developed new applications for food ingredients developed from corn and soybeans at A.E. Staley Company
• Joined Reliv International shortly after its founding in 1988
• Created a comprehensive line of nutritional supplements and earned nine product patents
• Member of board of directors of the Council for Responsible Nutrition
• Ranked #9 out of more than 5,000 CSOs in 2012 according to ExecRank

Dr. Alfredo Galvez

Chief Scientific Officer at SL Tech, a Reliv Company

• Ph.D. in Genetics from University of California, Davis
• BS and MS degrees in Genetics and Plant Physiology from University of Philippines
• Discovered the lunasin peptide in 1996 during postdoctoral research at University of California Berkley
• Holds 8 patents on lunasin technology
• 2013 Outstanding Alumni in Molecular Biology, University of the Philippines
• Innovative Minds in Prostate Cancer Today (IMPaCT), US Dept. of Defense, 2011
• 2010 Philippine Development (PhilDev) Foundation Awardee in Science and Engineering
• American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) minority researcher awardee
• Currently focused on the development of functional food and nutraceutical ingredients based on the lunasin peptide