Carlo Bertucci – Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry University of Bologna, Italy. Visiting Professor at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA: 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985; at The University of São Paulo, School of Pharmacy at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 1989, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012; at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1995; at the University of Bordeaux, Francia, 1997; at the Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 2000. The scientific activity of Prof. Carlo Bertucci mainly deals with the structural characterization of drugs and proteins, the study of the biorecognition mechanisms in the drug/target protein and protein/protein binding. In particular: enantioselective HPLC and circular dichroism based detection system; absolute configuration assignment to chiral drugs; structural characterization of peptides and proteins by spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques; drug binding to target proteins by biocromatography, SPR biosensor and chiroptical spectroscopy; monitoring and modulation of conformational transition of peptides and proteins having physiological or pathological relevance. He is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal Chirality and of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. He is the author, or co-author, of some 194 papers or reviews in international journals, 1 patent, 8 chapters in books, 1 entry in an encyclopaedia.