Dr. Adebimpe Adesina has been a Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, since 2014. Dr. Adesina received a Bachelor’s degree (2009) and a Master’s degree (2013) in Chemistry at the University of Lagos, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (2020) at Newcastle University. Dr. Adesina is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC).

Rachid Skouta completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry at McGill University in 2008 and then received the Canadian Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his postdoctoral training at Columbia University in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, working with Professors Ronald Breslow and Brent Stockwell at Columbia University. He received an M.Sc. at the Institut de Pharmacologie, Université de Sherbrooke in 2003. He was an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the Dept of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY, USA. Currently, he works in the research faculty in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has filed five patents in drug discovery. He has more than 47 publications with 16579 citations and an h-index of 29 (Scopus, 14 December 2023).