dr. Agung Nova Mahendra, M.Sc., was born in Tabanan, November 14, 1986. Currently, he is a lecturer and physician-scientist working in Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UNUD. He was graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine and medical doctor (with honours) from Faculty of Medicine, UNUD (2010). His master degree was pursued in Faculty of Medicine, UGM, with Summa Cum Laude (2015). Other notable additional education is a research fellowship in Neuropharmacology that was done in Department of Medicinal Pharmacology, GSMDPS, Okayama University, Japan (2015). His research areas of interest are (but not limited to) molecular pharmacology of atherosclerosis and fibrosis, neuropsychopharmacology (pharmaco-ethology), and psychobiotics.