Esther A. Guzmán is a Research Professor at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) of Florida Atlantic University. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology/Biotechnology from Salem-Teikyo University in 1996 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences with emphasis in Immunology from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2004. She leads the Cancer Cell Biology Group of the Marine Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Program at HBOI. Her research focuses on finding marine natural products that have the potential to be novel therapeutics against the over a hundred diseases grouped under the term cancer. Our approaches include using marine natural products to prevent cancer formation, eliminate existing tumors, stop metastasis, promote a better immune response against tumors, or as tools to further our understanding of the disease.