Rosette M. Roat-Malone, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She developed the advanced bioinorganic chemistry course that formed the basis for this book's predecessor, Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course. Her research in the reactions of platinum coordination compounds used as anticancer agents with biological molecules has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, and the Research Corporation.