Industry experts have advised the SCOpe project. Johanna Anton was at the initiation of the pilot. As a past president of BABEC, she recognized the need for providing low cost reagents for the consumers while creating partnerships with community college biotech faculty that was necessary for the educational products.
Rick Mead continues to advise the project. As an adjunct faculty at Ohlone College, he wrote the course outline for biotechnology operations course where he take the students through the process.