Prof. Dr. Marcelo Santos Castilho is a professor at the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ondina Campus, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. He is also a part of the permanent staff of the postgraduate course in Pharmacy at UFBA. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Biochemical Pharmacy from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1997), a Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of São Paulo (2000), and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of São Paulo (2004). He served as vice-coordinator between 2009 and 2013 and held the position of coordinator between 2013 and 2014. He currently holds the position of vice-coordinator in this same program. Additionally, he has served as treasurer (2018-2010), vice director (2010-2012), and director (2012-2014) of the Medicinal Chemistry and Biological Chemistry division of the SBQ. He has experience in the area of Chemistry and Protein Crystallography, with an emphasis on Medicinal Chemistry, working mainly on the identification and planning of drugs against topical diseases and modulators of bacterial virulence factors through in silico techniques (docking, QSAR), in vitro assays (enzymatic kinetics, ITC and thermofluo) and phenotypic tests.