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Marco Edilson Freire de Lima is a full professor in the Department of Chemistry of the Institute of Exact Sciences at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (Seropédica, RJ, Brazil). He worked as a visiting researcher at Prof. Victor Hruby`s group (2015?2016) at the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA) on the design and synthesis of peptides for medicinal purposes. Prof. Lima received his Ph.D. in Sciences (1994) from IQ-UFRJ working under the supervision of Prof. Andrew E. Greene at LEDSS-3 (University of Grenoble-France, 1991?1993) in the total synthesis of natural products using the [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of dichloroketene to olefins. He got a Master?s in Sciences degree (1989) from IQ-UFRJ working on the design and synthesis of new anti-inflammatory drugs under the supervision of Prof. Eliezer J. Barreiro; and he got a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1986). Prof. Lima?s research interests include the design and synthesis of new chemical entities potentially useful as antiparasitic drugs with a major emphasis on neglected infectious diseases. He has been the director of the Medicinal & Biological Chemistry section of the Brazilian Chemical Society (2010?2012).