Prof. Dr. Samir A. Ross is a Research Professor at the National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, the University of Mississippi. He received his B.S. degree in Pharmacy (1966), Diploma in Hospital Pharmacy (1967), and M.S. in Pharmacognosy (1970) from the School of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut Egypt. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products (1976) from the Medical Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine (former Soviet Union). His research area is isolation, identification, structure elucidation, synthesis, and evaluation of biologically active metabolites from natural sources, including plants, mushrooms, fungi, algae, and marine organisms, with special emphasis on antimicrobial, antiparasitic, and neuropharmacological agents. His experience is also in the area of glycan and glycoside natural products' drug discovery, as well as NMR spectroscopy.