Dr. Nawab Ali obtained his PhD degree in Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He then moved to the United Kingdom on a Commonwealth Scholarship to work at the National Institute for Medical Research, Medical Research Council, Mill Hill, London. There, he also obtained a Welcome Trust Fellowship and worked for two years and then moved to the United States. Dr. Ali obtained his postdoctoral training in the USA, most notably at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, and at Yale University. He moved to the UA Little Rock in 1999 as a research faculty and now working as a professor in the department of Biology at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Dr. Ali teaches Microbiology, and Signal Transduction and Regulation of Cell Function and supervises undergraduate and graduate students for their research. He is also a graduate coordinator for Biology department and Applied Bioscience graduate program. His research emphasizes on how inositol polyphosphates, the naturally occurring signaling molecules in the cell, regulate various cellular process including programed cell death or apoptosis. This has consequences for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. He has published many research articles and book chapters and obtained various grants. He collaborates with a wide range of interdisciplinary scientists worldwide.