Dr. Awad A. Shehata currently works as a project leader at the Structural Membrane Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, studying the analysis and mechanism of actions of natural products, metabolic pathways, and fluxes in various organisms by 13C-labeling experiments and profiling. He completed his Ph.D. (Dr. med. vet.) in Virology at the Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University, Germany, and obtained his Dr. habilitatus (Dr. med. vet. habil) at the same University. He is the Editorial Board Member of many journals and serves as a member of various associations, as well as an author of many books.