Nichole Coleman, M.S., Ph.D., completed her graduate work at UC Davis where she studied ion channels expressed in the central nervous system. That channel dysfunction leads to diseases that are characterized by hyperexcitability for which she designed and executed structure-activity relationship studies, biological assays and pharmacokinetic studies. Coleman served as an associate instructor of chemistry at UC Davis, and now teaches clinical chemistry for UC Berkeley Extension and serves as adjunct professor of organic chemistry at San Francisco State University. She holds a master's and doctorate in chemistry—both with a medicinal chemistry emphasis—and her research for the past 10 years has been at the interface between biology, chemistry and medicine. Coleman currently holds two patents in translational research and is the author of What’s the Matter? Personalizing Principles of Organic Chemistry (Lulu Publishing Services , 2015).