Alan Ruck, who plays Val's ex-husband Gordon, is in real life the husband of Mireille Enos. Ruck is 19 years older than Enos.
It's said that the drug was developed in part at "CalSci;" CalSci is a fictional college modeled on California Technical Institute (CalTech for short) that featured heavily in NUMB3RS. Alimi Ballard (Reggie) played a main character in NUMB3RS, and many of the other actors and actresses guest-starred, most notably Sonya Walger as Margot, who played a significant guest-role in NUMB3RS and stars as a partner of Alimi Ballard's character here.