Professor Solomon P. Wasser, Ph.D., Dr. Sci. (Biol.) is the Head of the International Center for Biotechnology and Biodiversity of Fungi, at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa (Israel); and the scientific adviser of the Department of Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi, at the N.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Professor Wasser is an author and co-author of 600 scientific publications, including 57 books and 15 patents. Professor Wasser is world lieder in medicinal mushrooms study and in fungal taxonomy and biodiversity, especially in higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms. He made pioneering research in anticancer (breast, prostate, CML, and ovarian cancers), antioxidant and radical scavenging activity of medicinal mushrooms, developed of new biotechnology of submerged cultivation of many medicinal mushroom species. Developed and patented new for world market dietary supplements with immunomodularing, cholesterol lowering, antidiabetic, antioxidant, and radical scavenging activities. Professor Wasser introduced 226 new scientific names for fungi including he described 42 species of higher Basidiomycetes species and intraspecific taxa new for science and 184 new for science nomenclature and taxonomic combinations. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of three international journals, International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (USA), Algologia (Ukraine), and International Journal on Algae (USA). He is organizer together with Professor S-T. Chang and late Professor T. Mizuno of world international medicinal mushrooms conferences (first was held in 2001 in Kiev, Ukraine and the last 9th IMMC was in Sptember 2017, in Italy).