Dr. Rathnam Chaguturu is the Director of the High Throughput Screening Laboratories at the University of Kansas and has more than 30 years of experience in new lead discovery and development, executing high throughput screens, and managing hit to lead projects. He joined Rutgers University in 1976 as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, and later moved to Dow Chemical Company-Central Research Laboratories as a Project Leader. At Dow, Rathnam instituted the first principles of chemical library screening for new lead discovery, and developed tools for mining in-house chemical archives. Rathnam joined Sierra Sciences as Director of Drug Discovery in 2006 after a 22-year outstanding career at FMC Corporation where he led discovery research efforts focused on ion channel, receptor, enzyme and cell-based targets, and instrumental in designing the industry-first Zymark robotic screening platform for new lead discovery.  He recently organized a workshop on high throughput screening (HTS) strategies in drug discovery, the first of its kind, in Panama City (Panama) aimed at Latin American scientists interested in drug discovery from natural sources, and another one in Chicago on Academia and Industry Working Together to Ease the Drug Discovery Bottleneck. As a representative of FMC, he was one of the founding members of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences. Dr. Chaguturu has authored over 45 research publications including reviews and book chapters, and holds 11 US patents. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, published by Bentham.