Prof. Botana is a full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Santiago and director of the Department of Pharmacology. He is a former Fogarty Fellow at the School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University. He has been director of the European Reference Laboratory for Marine Toxins from 2004 to 2009. He is author of 25 international patents, over 400 peer reviewed scientific papers and editor of 12 international books. His group is a word reference for marine toxins toxicology, pharmacology and therapeutics, and development of detection methods.