Prof Essam Abdel-Sattar was born in 1957, and graduated from college of pharmacy, Cairo University in 1979. He finished his PhD in 1990 (Munster, Germany). In 2000, he got a JSPS post doctor fellowship, Institute of Natural Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. In 2003, he promoted to professor and served as director of Pharmacognosy Department from 2012 to 2017. Now, he is acting as director of Natural Product research center since 2016, College of Pharmacy, Cairo University. He spent four years as vice director of Higher Scientific Committee of Egyptian universities for promotion to professors and ass. Professors (2013-2016), also a member of scientific committee of NODCAR (2015-till now) and a member of Toyama-Asia-Africa Pharmaceutical Network (TAA-PharmaNet) since 2016. He published more than 180 research articles in the field of chemistry and biology of medicinal plants in national and international journals and four book chapters. He participated in more than 40 conferences or workshops and granted and participated in 25 projects in- and outside Egypt.