Dr. Chang-Guo Zhan received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Science (Molecular Physics) from the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan. He performed his postdoctoral research as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Department of Medicine, Columbia University. After that, he served as an Associate Research Scientist at the Department of Medicine, Columbia University, and a Visiting Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the same time. Dr. Zhan joined the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy faculty as Associate Professor on July 1st, 2003, and was promoted to Professor on July 1st, 2007. Dr. Zhan was named the University Research Professor by the University President and Board of Trustees in May 2016. His research interests mainly include drug design, discovery, and development through integrated computational-experimental studies. He served on the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow Selection Committee and on the National Biotechnology Conference (NBC) programming committee and served as Chair of the Computational Drug Design Focus Group (CDDFG) of AAPS. Dr. Zhan won 2005 Emerging Computational Technology Prize of American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry and won 2016 AAPS Research Achievement Award in Drug Discovery and Development Interface. Dr. Zhan was elected a Fellow of AAPS in 2010 and elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2022.