Alejandro Mayer, Ph.D.

HISTORY OF CURRENT AND PREVIOUS ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2000-current Professor, Department of Pharmacology, College of Graduate Studies, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Chicago College of Pharmacy, College of Dental Medicine Illinois, Chicago College of Health Science, Chicago College of Optometry, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois

1995-2000 Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois

1993-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois

1990-1993 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

1988-1990 Research Scientist, National Academy of Medicine and National Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1987-1988 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

1985-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California PATENTS (FIRST TWO PATENTS FOR MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY)

1. A. Mayer , S.P. Gunasekera, S.A. Pomponi and S.H. Sennett. Anti-inflammatory uses of the Manzamines. United States Patent No.: US 6,387,916, issued May 14, 2002.

2. A. Mayer , S.P. Gunasekera, S.A. Pomponi and S.H. Sennett. Anti-inflammatory uses of the Manzamines. United States Patent No.: US 6,602,881 issued Aug. 5, 2003.

WEBPAGE

My own research in marine pharmacology and pharmaceuticals, as well as that of the global marine pharmacology and pharmaceutical community, is highlighted at Home | Mysite (marinepharmacology.org) . This website has received over 18,0000 hits (since its launch in 4/1/2021), and is currently # 1 in Google search engine using the key words " marine pharmacology". The website is updated every two months with the contributions from scientific advisors from the global marine chemistry, pharmacology and pharmaceutical research community, as well as students from the Chicago College of Pharmacy and the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine.

INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES (Since 2008)

I have been honored to present marine pharmaceuticals lecture/seminar presentation that covers: (1) FDA-approved marine pharmaceuticals, (2) the clinical pipeline ; and, (3) the preclinical pipeline (marine natural products with antitumor and cytotoxic activity, as well as other pharmacological activities) at several scientific meetings and universities in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico and South Africa, as shown below.

2024       Mayer, A. M. S. The Global Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2024. Gordon Conference on Marine Natural Products. Ventura, California. March 10-15, 2024.

2023       Mayer, A.M.S. The Global Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2023. 19^th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology 2023. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. July 2-7, 2023

2021      Mayer, A.M.S. The Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2021. 12^th European Conference on Marine Natural Products. Galway, Ireland.  September 1, 2021.

2019         Mayer, A.M.S. The Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2019 . 5th IUPHAR World Conference of the Pharmacology of Natural Products and                   51st Annual Conference of the Indian Pharmacology Society, Hyderabad, India . December 5-7 , 2019.

2019         Mayer, A.M.S. The Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2019 . International Summer School on Natural Products (ISSNP), Univerity of              Naples, "Federico II", Naples, Italy . July 1-4, 2019.

2018          Mayer, A.M.S. The Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2018 . School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of       Pharmacology and Scripps Institution of Oceanograph, San Diego, California. April 25.

2017 Mayer, A.M.S. The Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2017. 10th European Marine Natural Products Meeting, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. September 7.

2016 Mayer, A.M.S. The Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2016. Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany . May 18.

2016 Mayer, A.M.S . Biotechnology and the Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2016. Fundacion Farmacal, A.C., La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico . April 20-23 .

2015 Mayer, A.M.S. Biotechnology and the Marine Pharmaceutical Pipeline in 2015. National Academy of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 12.

2014 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine clinical and preclinical pipeline . 17th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, IUPHAR Natural Products Section Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa . July 13-18.

2014 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois. November 14.

2013 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline. Department of Molecular Therapeutics and Pharmacology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois. February 20.

2012 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline. Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois. August 22.

2012 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . OECD Global Forum on Biotechnology: Marine Biotechnology - Enabling Solutions for Ocean Productivity and Sustainability. Sponsored by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Vancouver, Canada . May 30-31.

2012 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmacology preclinical pipeline . ASPET Symposium: " Clinical Pipeline of Marine Pharmaceuticals: The Odyssey Continues" sponsored by The Division for Drug Discovery, Development and Regulatory affairs from the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Experimental Biology 2012, San Diego, California. April 25.

2012 Mayer, A.M.S. Marine pharmacology and the global pharmaceutical pipel ine. Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area Spring Seminar Series. Benedictine University, Illinois. March 13.

2011 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS, Roscoff, France . September 1.

2011 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . Annual Workshop on Marine Biotechnology. Station de Biologie Marine, Museum National D'Histoire. Roscoff, France . September 1. Concarneau , France . August 31.

2011 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . Department of Chemistry, U University of Louisiana, Monroe, Louisiana. February.

2010 Mayer, A.M.S. Marine Biodiversity and Drug Development from Marine Sources . Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial, Buenos Aires, Argentina . November 12.

2010 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . Department of Biological Sciences, Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois. October 13.

2010 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanzi Naturali, Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy . May 21.

2010 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline . Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. March 17.

2009 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmacology pipeline . Chemistry Institute of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil . November 23.

2009 Mayer, A.M.S. The global marine pharmacology pipeline . Experimental Biology 2009. American Society of Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASPET) Symposium: A Renaissance in Marine Pharmacology: Preclinical Curiosity to Clinical Reality. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 19.

2009 Mayer, A.M.S. Marine Pharmacology: FDA-approved marine drugs, and the marine clinical and preclinical pipeline . Florida International University, Graduate School and Marine Sciences Program. Miami, Florida. January 30.

2008 Mayer, A.M.S. Marine Pharmacology: A Critique of the Preclinical and Clinical Literature . University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, Department of Chemistry, San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 28.