Dr Zyta Maria Ziora received a PhD (Wroclaw University of Science & Technology, Poland) in chemistry and has a wide range of experience in medicinal chemistry, including the development of antimalarial therapeutics (the University of Montpellier, France), enzyme inhibitors, and drug candidates against Alzheimer's disease (Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan). Her research time is currently dedicated mainly to projects devoted to the modification of existing antibiotics and complexing them with other antimicrobial agents, e.g., metal ions, to produce more potent alternatives, which are able to overcome the drug resistance of superbugs. She is also working on nature-derived compounds with antimicrobial and anticancer potency.