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The Institute for EthnoMedicine Dr. Paul Alan Cox learning from traditional healers in the Samoan rainforest.
 
 

Current Institute Staff and Affiliates include:

Paul Alan Cox, Ph.D.
 - Executive Director, Ethnobotany and Drug Discovery

Sandra Banack, Ph.D.
 - Senior Scientist, Ethnobotany

Tatsuya Togashi, Ph.D.
 - Research Associate, Marine Biology

John Bartelt, Ph.D.
 - Senior Scientist, Numerical Experimentation

Michael Balick, Ph.D.
 - Research Associate, Ethnobotany

Steven R. King, Ph.D.
- Research Associate, Ethnobotany

Walter Bradley, DM, FRCP
 - Scientific Advisory Committee Chair, Neurology

James Metcalf, Ph.D.
 - Senior Research Fellow, Cyanotoxins

Holly Johnson, Ph.D.
 - Research Fellow, Pharmacognosy

Ran Cheng
 - Research Assistant

Farnaz Bakhshi
 - Research Assistant

Marilyn K. Asay
 - Executive Assistant

 

 
Dr. Sandra Banack and Dr. Peter Nunn discuss their research.

“Doing research ordinarily done by other types of scientists, Paul Alan Cox thinks he may have made a significant discovery: that the toxin is produced by blue-green algae, the oldest and most pervasive organism on the planet.” – Miami Herald, 2005