KARUPPUSAMYARUNACHALAM, PhD, Visiting Professor at the Center for Studies in Stem Cells, Cell Therapy, and Toxicological Genetics (CeTroGen) within the Graduate Program in Health and Development of the Midwest Region, Faculty of Medicine (FAMED), Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. He was honored with the President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020, conducting research at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Area Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Basic Sciences in Health, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Brazil. His research spans a wide range of topics, including phytochemistry, biotechnology, ethnopharmacology, and pre-clinical pharmacology, with a primary focus on herbal drug development for colorectal cancer. To date, Dr. Arunachalam has authored over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as 6 books and 10 book chapters. Additionally, he holds four registered international patents (Brazil) and one granted national patent (India).