Prof. Dr. Balakumar Chandrasekaran is a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Zarqa University, Amman, Jordan. He completed a Master of Pharmacy at LM College of Pharmacy, Gujarat University, in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University in 2011. Prof. Chandrasekaran’s area of specialization is drug design and medicinal chemistry. His research interests include computer-aided drug design, synthesis, characterization and evaluation of nanoparticles, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), pharmaceutical analysis of bulk drugs, drug intermediates, impurities detection and quantification, and synthesis of novel small organic molecules used as anticancer, antitubercular, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-COVID and anti-asthmatic agents.