Muralikrishnan DhanasekaranMuralikrishnan Dhanasekaran, is a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Department of Drug Discovery and Development, Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Jadavpur University, India, in neuroharmacology. From 1999-2001, he became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, and the Uni-versity of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND. He served as a re-search instructor of pharmacology at Texas A & M Health Sciences, Temple, TX. His major area of teaching and research is related to pathophysiology, pharmacology, and toxicology in dementia, movement disorders, addiction (substances of abuse-designer drugs, nicotine, alcohol), hyperglycemia, epilepsy, and aging. His research was funded by the Alzheimer's Association and Pharmaceutical com-panies in the USA. He has over one hundred and thirteen peer-reviewed publications, fifty book chap-ters, and around four hundred abstracts in national and international meetings in the area of pharma-cology, toxicology, and natural bioactives. He has received several awards for teaching, service, and outreach. He has been an editor or on the editorial board for several books and journals including nat-ural products, pharmacology, toxicology, and neuropharmacology. Read More Read Less