Rama Rao Nadendla is Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Acharya Nagarjuna University and Principal at Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chalapathi Nagar, Lam, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh). He has 26 years of teaching and research experience. He secured Gold Medal in B.Pharmacy Examination from Gulbarga University, Gulbarga. He obtained M.Pharm with distinction from BITS, Pilani and Ph.D from JNTU, Hyderabad. He acts on the Editorial Advisory Board Member of International Journal of Pharmaceutical Excipients and Chief Editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical Technolgy and Research. He was the recipient of Professor M.L. Khorana Memorial Best Research Paper Award from IJPSC in 2001. He has authored "Medicinal Chemistry, Second Edition" published by PharmaMed Press, Hyderabad.