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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

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

Alison Long, M.B. B.Ch., Ph.D.
 - Laboratory Assistant, Toxicology

Marilyn K. Asay
 - Executive Assistant

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

Geoffrey Codd, Ph.D.
 - Scientific Advisory Committee, Cyanobacteria

Peter Nunn, Ph.D.
 - Scientific Advisory Committee, Natural Product Chemistry

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

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

Samantha Gerlach, Ph.D.
 - Research Associate, Pharmacology

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

Renee Richer, Ph.D.
 - Research Associate, Desert Ecology

Robert Speth, Ph.D.
 - Research Associate, Pharmacology

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

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