**About the Editors**

#### **Bin-Gui Wang**

Bin-Gui Wang is a Professor of marine natural products at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his B.Sc. degree from the Chemistry Department of Lanzhou University in 1986 and obtained several years of experience in natural antioxidants investigation at the Xi'an Oils and Fats Institute. In 1997, he completed his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of Lanzhou University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1997 to 1999. He has been a DAAD fellow at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology at Heinrich-Heine-Universitat¨ Dusseldorf in Germany from 2000 to 2002 (with Prof. Peter Proksch). His research involves studies ¨ of bioactive natural compounds from marine organisms such as marine algae, endophytic fungi, and deep-sea-sourced microbes. He has published approximately 230 research papers, reviews, and book chapters, and is a coinventor on 25 patents. He is a member of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and serves on the editorial boards of Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Chemistry and Biodiversity, Marine Drugs, and Marine Life Science and Technology.

#### **RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel**

Dr. RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel currently heads the Natural Products Metabolomics Group (NPMG) at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and is currently author of more than 100 publications and two patents on marine natural products. She obtained her PhD (Dr. rer. nat) degree from the Julius-Maximilian-Universitat W¨ urzburg, under the supervision of Professor Peter ¨ Proksch. Her expertise comprises both natural products isolation and structure elucidation with modern spectroscopic techniques. Her current research is based on the application of metabolomics on natural products research to identify and biotechnologically optimize the production of bioactive secondary metabolites in marine-derived microorganisms.

#### **Chang-Yun Wang**

Chang-Yun Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Ocean University of China in 1999 under the supervision of Professor Huashi Guan. In 2000, he joined the research group of Prof. Peter Proksch at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology in University of Duesseldorf, Germany, as a 'German Academic Exchange Service' (DAAD) fellow. In 2002, he returned to work at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ocean University of China as a professor. His research interest focused on discovery of new bioactive ingredients from marine resources and development of marine natural products into drug-like compounds for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, infectious diseases and other human diseases.
