Dr. Premalatha Balachandran attained her PhD in medical biochemistry from the University of Madras, Chennai, India (1999). She had post-doctoral training in Molecular Biology from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and training in natural products drug discovery from the National Center for Natural Products Research Center (NCNPR), School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi. Currently, she is a Senior Scientist at NCNPR, University of Mississippi. She has 20+ years of experience in cancer drug discovery, cancer signaling, cancer molecular targets, bioactive natural products, alternative medicine, and immune enhancement through natural products. Dr. Balachandran received the Outstanding Staff Award, from the University of Mississippi in 2015. Dr. Balachandran is a member of the American Association of Cancer Research and is a scientific member of the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute.