Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants

Alberto Alcibiades Salazar Granara

Medical Doctor
Universidad de San Martin de Porres (USMP)
Peru

Biography

Alberto Alcibiades Salazar Granara is a Medical Doctor (USMP-Peru, 2006), likewise, he is a Medicine PhD (USMP-Peru, 2012) and Pharmacology MSc (USMP-Peru, 2011). He has a postdoctoral studies in Medicinal Plant and Teratology (Federal de Rio Grande del Sur University-Brazil, 2012), in Pharmacogenomics, Hypertension and Clinical Research (Sao Paulo University School of Medicine – Brazil, 2013 and 2016). Since January of 2014 he is a voluntary firefighter and belongs at the Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios Del Perú. Since 2002, he is researcher of the Center of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacology of The School of Medicine at The San Martín de Porres University, and since 2015, he is Director of them. He is member of the Latin-American Society of Pharmacology, Peruvian Society of The Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Peruvian Society of Molecular Pharmacology, and Peruvian Society of Study of Pain. He is qualified how to National Researcher in Science and Technology with register number 2231. He has more than 50 publications in areas like traditional medicine, medicinal plants, pharmacology and pharmacogenomics.

Research Area

His research interests are the Peruvian Traditional Medicine; especially the ethno-medicine, the ethno-botanic, the pharmacognosy, and, the uses of herbal drug in the pregnant and the elderly people. Other interest is in pharmacology research with emphasis in the exploration of the analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antidepressant and neuroleptic properties and herbal-drug interaction of Peruvian medicinal plants, also, the study of the off-label effect from common drugs, as, antihypertensives, hypoglycemic agents and antidepressants; and finally is the research of highlight pharmacogenetic and pharmacokinetic markers in Peruvian population.