Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein is a Principal Scientist and the Head of the Pharmaceutical Analysis and Drug Development Laboratory, Centre for Clinical Research, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the author or coauthor of over 600 refereed journal articles, 30 book chapters, and 270 conference presentations. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Chiral Separation by Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies (Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York), The Impact of Stereochemistry on Drug Development and Use (John Wiley & Sons, New York), Chiral Pollutants: Distribution, Toxicity and Analysis by Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK), among others. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Analytica Chimica Acta , Chirality , Biomedical Chromatography , Analytical Lett ers, Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies , Biopolymers , Biosensors and Bioelectronics , to mention a few. Professor Aboul- Enein is a member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) advisory panel on international pharmacopeia and pharmaceutical preparations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom). He earned his B.Sc. degree (1964) in pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and his M.Sc. (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry from the University of Mississippi, U.S. Professor Aboul-Enein's current research interests are in the field of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis and drug development with special emphasis on chiral chromatography, ion-selective electrodes, and other separation techniques. Dr. Imran Ali is presently a scientist at the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India. He earned his M.Sc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees from the University of Roorkee, India (now the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India). His research areas of interest are chiral analysis of biological and environmental active chiral compounds and metal ion speciation using chromatographic and capillary electrophoresis techniques. He also has expertise in water quality and wastewater treatment methodologies. Dr. Ali is author and coauthor of more than 100 journal articles and book and encyclopedia chapters. He is the coauthor of two books: Chiral Separations by Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies (Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York) and Chiral Pollutants: Distribution, Toxicity and Analysis by Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK). Dr. Ali was awarded a Khosla Research Award in 1987 by the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, for his work on the chiral resolution of amino acids. He is a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association, India.
