Paul Cox

Member since: 2022

Paul Alan Cox, PhD, recipient of the GCA's Eloise Payne Luquer Medal, is a world-renowned ethnobotanist searching for cures for diseases by studying indigenous plants and their uses. He has worked to discover a promising drug candidate for HIV/AIDS from the bark of a Samoan tree. While working in Samoa, Dr. Cox founded Seacology, an environmental organization that has preserved 98,000 acres of rainforest and 1.7 million acres of coral reefs on islands worldwide. After a distinguished academic career, Dr. Cox turned his focus to neurodegenerative diseases, comparing patterns of illness and wellness in island villages. He and his colleagues made discoveries in Guam that led to advanced clinical trials for possible treatments for ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. Dr. Cox is executive director of Brain Chemistry Labs, a not-for-profit organization in Jackson, Wyoming, with a consortium of fifty scientists working to further this research. His compassion and groundbreaking achievements in scientific research are changing the paradigm. Honorary member since 2022.