Prof. Dr. George Albert Karikas is a Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Sciences and currently a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus. He obtained his first Ph.D. in Biochemistry/Pharmacognosy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 1981 and completed a second Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry at the University of Manchester in 1986. Over the past 40 years, Prof. Karikas has worked as a researcher and visiting professor at the Schools of Pharmacy of the University of Panama and the University of Salamanca, Spain, and in the Department of Nursing at NKUA, as well as a full professor at the University of West Attica. His research interests primarily focus on Clinical Biochemistry, Pharmacognosy, and Natural Products Chemistry.