Prof. Lubna Tahtamouni is a full professor at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, the Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Jordan in 1997, her Master’s degree in 2000 from the same university, and her Ph.D. from Colorado State University, USA, in 2005. Her research mainly studies cellular alternations leading to cancer for a better understanding of its initiation and development. Her lab also focuses on projects like cell migration, adhesion, and metastasis, mitochondrial function, and apoptosis. For over a decade, she has been collaborating with inorganic and organic chemists in Jordan, Iraq, Germany, and India to evaluate the anti-tumor activities of drugs synthesized or modified in their research laboratory. In the last 18 years, she has authored more than 65 research articles and supervised the graduate work of more than 20 master students from Hashemite University and other Jordanian universities, as well as international students. Alongside her research, her passion is teaching and campaigning for women to choose a career in science. She is a member of several prestigious professional societies and organizations, such as the American Society for Cell Biology, the Jordan Society for Scientific Research (JSSR), the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), and the Jordanian Society for Fertility and Genetics.