Dr. Amir Wahba is a senior principal scientist at Visikol Inc. In his current role, he leads the bioanalytical assay development in collaboration with the in vitro and the pharmacology teams utilizing LC-MS/MS. Dr. Wahba holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from the University of Mississippi, emphasizing the chemistry of natural products. During his graduate work, Dr. Wahba focused on discovering and developing anti-cancer and anti-malarial drug leads from the marine environment. He pioneered the structure elucidation of bioactive natural products and the development of in vitro platforms for the active compound’s evaluation. Following his postdoctoral training on carbohydrate synthesis at LSU, Dr. Wahba expanded his drug discovery skills to include nanotechnology, molecular biology, gene therapy, and metabolomic analysis by contributing to multidisciplinary projects in academia and industry. Before joining Visikol, Dr. Wahba served as a senior research associate at the Department of Neurosurgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, where he established an adenosine-based epigenetic drug discovery platform based on manipulating adenosine metabolism through small molecules and gene-based intervention for epilepsy and brain cancer treatment. Furthermore, he established the protein-protein interaction network of adenosine kinase utilizing mass spectrometry proteomics and metabolomics approaches to help us understand the consequence of adenosine kinase manipulation on cancer metabolism.