Juan Carlos Romero-Benavides, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry and the Chemistry of Natural Products and has been a Researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador, since October 2002. He received a doctorate in Biomedical Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. He is the Head of the Natural Products: Cancer and Parasitism research group (PNCyP). His main research interests focus on natural products (biochemistry and chemistry), synthetic methodologies and natural product derivatization, with the goal of discovering leads from natural sources and the optimization of novel anti-inflammatory, anticancer and antiparasitic drugs.