Satyajit D. Sarker, PhD, is Professor of Pharmacy and Director of the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the Founding Head of the Centre for Natural Products Discovery and Founding Chair of the Society for Natural Products Discovery, a registered charity in the UK.

Lutfun Nahar, PhD, is a Medicinal and Natural Products Chemist at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Coleraine. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with over 550 publications, she holds a degree in Chemistry from Exeter University and earned her PhD in Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry from Aberdeen University.