Prof. Pedro de Sena Murteira Pinheiro is a Pharmacist, M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry and Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-BR), acting as researcher in the R&D of novel drug candidates at the Laboratory of Evaluation and Synthesis of Bioactive Substances (LASSBio®) of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at UFRJ-BR.