Amrita Muralikrishnan is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University Malaysia under the School of Pharmacy. Her research focuses on medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry, with particular emphasis on drug discovery and rational drug design. She has authored 5 articles and 3 book chapters in these fields. She is a recipient of the Graduate Research Excellence Scholarship from Monash University for her doctoral studies and has also been awarded an individual research grant from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) to support her research activities.