Doctor Assunta Giordano has been a researcher at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pozzuoli, Italy, since 2001. She completed her Ph.D. studies in Chemistry at the University of Salerno in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow focusing on synthesis of biologically active natural products at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Salerno. Her research interests are organic synthesis, drug discovery, anticancer agents, and biocatalysis.