Prof. Koorbanally is an Organic Chemist with over 25 years of experience in the fields of Natural Products and Synthetic Organic Chemistry. He works on the synthesis of hybrid organic molecules for the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific interest in quinolines, benzimidazoles, quinoxalines, pyrimidines, chalcones and coumarins. His current interest is on the design, synthesis, antibacterial, antitubercular and anticancer activity of conjugate molecules, combining two or more organic frameworks or classes of compounds into a single small molecule. In recent years, he has concentrated on quinolines, quinoxalines and benzimidazoles, supervising the synthesis and bioactivity of various libraries of compounds, several of which were seen to have better activity than known drugs. Beside Organic Synthesis, he still enjoys isolating natural products from plant sources and working out their structures. “This is one of the more challenging aspects of Organic Chemistry.” Professor Koorbanally was the 2005 Colenso Scholar at St. John's College at the University of Cambridge and featured amongst the Top 30 most published researchers in 2012, 2015 and 2016 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. To date he has published 180 scientific articles, with over 4200 citations, an H-index of 34 and i10 index of 113 on Google Scholar, and 30 on Scopus. He graduated 26 doctoral and 26 Masters students to completion and currently has a group of several doctoral and Masters students. He is currentl