Dr. Khaled A Shaaban is currently a Research Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and also serves as the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI) Natural Product Repository initiative. He obtained his B.S. Degree in Chemistry (2000) from Mansoura University. He received his M.S. (2005) and PhD. Degrees in Organic Chemistry (2009) from the University of Göttingen. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2009–2011) at the University of Kentucky. He has published more than 95 peer-reviewed high-impact research articles and mentored five high school students, eight Ph.D. students, eight postdoctoral fellows, eight visiting scholars, and five junior faculty members. His expertise is in the area of natural product discovery, natural product biosynthesis, and natural product-based lead discovery.