Ahcène BOUMENDJEL is a Professor of Medicinal chemistry at University Grenoble Alpes. He earned his PhD degree in organic chemistry from the University of Reims in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 he was a NIH postdoctoral fellow working on chemistry and biochemistry of sphingolipids at National institutes of neurological disorders and stroke (NINDS), Washington/USA. From 1994 to 1995, he worked as a researcher associate in a private company (Procept, Inc) in Boston where was involved in the chemistry of peptidomimetics as anti-virals. In 1996, he joined the Pharmacy School of University Grenoble Alpes as an assistant professor and in 2008 he became a full professor of medicinal chemistry. The research areas of Pr. BOUMENDJEL deal with medicinal chemistry of natural products with particular focus on anticancer and anti-infective agents derived natural products. Prof. Boumendjel has published over 115 international publications and he is the co-owner of 11 patents. Since, 2016, he is the director of the Département de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Grenoble.