Salah Belaidi is currently professor and research director in the Department of Chemistry; University of Biskra. He is the head of the “Computational and Medicinal Chemistry” group. He received his MSc and PhD in macrolide chemistry. My research interests span the areas of chemical design of biomolecules, virtual screening in drug discovery and drug design, QSAR models and molecular docking, as well as molecular dynamics. He has published more than 100 articles in reputed journals and has been a noted member of the editorial board of several journals.