Aamir Ahmad, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Oncologic Sciences at University of South Alabama’s Mitchell Cancer Institute, Mobile, AL, USA. He received his academic degrees from AMU, Aligarh, India and completed post-doctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. His research interests include understanding the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance and metastasis in different cancers, with emphasis on the role of microRNAs, non-coding RNAs, epigenetics, exosomes, cancer stem cells and a personalized approach. He has authored 160 scientific research / review articles, edited/co-edited 8 books and serves as Expert Reviewer for scientific proposals submitted to 8 different funding agencies in Europe, Asia and Africa. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Non-coding RNA Research”, Section Editor for the journal “Scientific Reports”, and is Section Editor for the journal “PLoS ONE”. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier series ‘Cancer Metastasis’.