Prof. Lídia Moreira Lima is a Pharmacist, M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Chemistry and Full Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-BR). Prof. Lima acts as researcher in R&D of novel drug candidates at the Laboratory of Evaluation and Synthesis of Bioactive Substances (LASSBio®) of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at UFRJ-BR, having authored more than 100 articles in the field.