Dr. Meena Kishore Sakharkar is a professor and member of the Drug Discovery and Development Research Group, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan. She obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore, followed by postdoctoral training at Stanford University. She was an assistant professor with concurrent appointments as head of pharmacogenomics and deputy director for the Advanced Design and Modeling Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before joining the University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Sakharkar was a professor at the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Science at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her research interests include drug target identification and validation using multiple cross-disciplinary approaches.