Marine toxins and the cytoskeleton

L. M. Botana is a full professor of pharmacology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain. His group is a world leader in the study of the mechanism of toxicity of marine toxins and the use of toxin targets to develop functional assays. He held a postdoctoral National Institutes of Health Fogarty Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and has worldwide collaborators. He has published more than 200 papers and 15 patents, and has edited several books on pharmacology and marine toxins. Since 2005, he has been the director of the European Community Reference Laboratory for Marine Biotoxins (DG SANCO and AESAN).

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