Dr. Pradeep Paudel is a Research Chemist at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, USA. Dr. Paudel received his doctoral degree in natural product chemistry from Pukyong National University, South Korea in 2020 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), The University of Mississippi, from 2020 to 2023. Dr. Paudel’s research works focus on discovering novel drugs from natural sources for the management of neurodegenerative diseases and Type II diabetes. Primarily, he works on traditional Chinese medicines and functional foods to characterize specific compounds for particular biological activities including antioxidants, anti-AD, anti-PD, and antidiabetics. His new endeavor focuses on G protein-coupled receptor modulators from natural sources via cell-based functional assays and computational approaches for the management of neurodegenerative diseases.