Taksina Chuanasa is an Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Botany at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.  She also is a member in ‘’DNA Barcoding of Medicinal Plants”, a research unit of Chulalongkorn University. She has been spending time working in molecular biology, biochemistry and biotechnology of plants and other organisms since she started work as a faculty member.  Her research is focused on the mechanisms and potentiality of substances to be developed as drug candidates.  Her other research interest is authentication of plant species by several techniques.