**Khaled A. Shaaban**

Dr. Shaaban obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry (2000) from Mansoura University, Egypt. He received his M.S. (2005) and PhD. degrees in Organic Chemistry (2009) from the University of Gottingen (Germany) under supervision of Professor Hartmut Laatsch. He joined Prof. J ¨ urgen Rohr's ¨ group to continue natural product research as a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011) at the University of Kentucky prior to joining Prof. Ben Shen's group (2011–2012) at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Florida (USA). Currently Dr. Shaaban hold a Research Assistant Professor position at the University of Kentucky, College of Pharmacy and also serve as the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI) Natural Product Repository initiative. His expertise is in the area of natural product discovery, natural product biosynthesis and natural product-based lead discovery. Dr. Shaaban has over 20 years of experience in NPs-based drug discovery, including isolation of bacterial strains from soils, screening, scale-up fermentation, complex NP structure elucidation, biosynthesis and semi-synthesis.
