Prof. Dr. Luis M. Botana currently works as a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He received his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1985. Furthermore, he used to be the Fogarty Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center (1990–1992), the Director of the European Community Reference for Marine Toxins (2004–2009) and the Director of the Department of Pharmacology of the USC (2003–2011). His research interests mainly include Environmental Oceanography, marine toxins, methods of detection, toxicology of marine toxins, new drugs from marine compounds and new toxin profiles depending on climate.