Suzana Guimarães Leitão is a pharmacist with a PhD degree in Natural Products Chemistry. Full Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Research interests: natural product chemistry (phytochemistry), pharmacognosy, plant biotechnology, ethnopharmacology, and separation sciences. She has co-authored more than 113 research articles, book chapters, and patents alongside invited lectures. Her group is the holder of the first authorization to access traditional knowledge associated with bioprospecting purposes (2007), involving a contract between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the quilombola communities of Oriximina, Brazil. She is involved with several international research groups in Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Argentina, and Mexico.